Early-stage Startups – Advice from Experts

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Early-stage Startups

Salvador, Brazil

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Brazilian Architect, Urbanist, Drawing teacher, comic book illustrator and designer. Passion for teaching and sharing knowledge!

Beroski Huguley

Auburn,AL

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Founder Rovalf Collections one of one garment connoisseur, Designer, Painter, Music A&R Assistant, Entrepreneur, Start-up doer and advisor

Lou Cattaruzza

Bayside, New York

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Founder of Biz connection, Inc a virtual business incubator that helps entrepreneurs with intellectual and financial resources. The Organization is currently developing RFexchange.com a clearing house for referral fee transactions for membership networks and Good Heart Gifts an online platform for recording your own greeting card accompanied by a good heart gift basket. Started a Investment bank/broker dealer with 290 brokers sold it in 1992 1996 Started an Internet Media company at its high point 2001 it was valued at 280 million

Chris Mack

Vancouver, Canada Area

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Founder Spokal. Former consultant to Fortune 500s. Inbound marketing.

Nyagah Mentor

Nairobi, Kenya

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Am the Founder and Director of Meru Institute of Business Studies (MIBS College of Entrepreneurship), that specializes on talent development and wealth creation through problem solving.

Eli Portnoy

Greater Los Angeles Area

$400.0/min N/A 0 $6.67/min

Founder & CEO at ThinkNear, a hyper-local ad network funded by Google, Qualcomm, and IA Ventures. We went from idea to multi-million $ revenue run rate, to acquisition by Telenav (Nasdaq: TNAV) in 18 months.

Christina Emerson

Brunswick, OH

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Founding Partner & Programmer @ Round House Games. also: tech nerd, entrepreneur, a mother, & video game enthusiast.

Kevin Fleming

West Chester, PA

$500.0/min N/A 0 $8.33/min

Founder of Startup Workout, where I share what works when building, launching and scaling a new product. Co-founder of Walnut St. Labs, an accelerator & early stage investor outside of Philadelphia where I had the opportunity to work with experienced tech founders that have sold their companies to Apple, Artisan, Bain Capital, Capital One, Dell, Ebay, Microsoft and numerous others.

Mustapha Yakubu

Madrid, Spain

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Co-Founder Frimb & AIC. Youngest Regional Manager At A Rocket Internet Backed Ecommerce Company (Jumia)

Adam Klaptocz

Lausanne, Switzerland

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Founder at RigiTech (drone delivery), Head of Engineering at senseFly (75m+ exit), co-founder of NGOs WeRobotics and Drone Adventures. PhD and 15y experience in Drones. I've dedicated my life to making drones for good a reality.

Lynn Le

Portland, OR

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder/CEO of Society Nine, the brand for the fight in every woman. Former associate at Portland Seed Fund. Former retail environments design for one of the biggest sports brands in the world. Krav Maga brown belt. Former kickboxing instructor. Hip hop junkie.

Bernard O'Flynn

San Francisco

$175.0/min N/A 1 $2.92/min

Startup founder with 20 years of experience across all aspects of software - consulting, building software, building & managing teams, scaling agile, team culture, fixing broken teams and tools

Volker Gersabeck

Berlin

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Freelance User Experience Enthusiast, Founder of Pidoco and Crewmeister, Initiator of UXcamp Europe, writing on thinkingux.de

Murtuza Kutub

New York

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

I work with over a dozen entrepreneurs every year and help them transform their idea into a successful MVP. Recently I have worked with BJ Novak, and helped him launch The List App. Have worked with ex Chief Product Officer of Fab.com and helped him launch his startup SkyMD. Have also worked with some big names like Comcast Ventures and Pizza Hut on their entrepreneurial projects. I love helping highly passionate entrepreneurs and want to be entrepreneurs take the first step and go from idea to a product. My Strengths are : 1. Based on the initial idea, scoping out an MVP that will get the most traction and would be the easiest to market and raise funds with. 2. Iterate based on the feedback from the MVP and building the product roadmap. 3. Growth Hacking. 4. Technology development.

Thyaga Venkat

Silicon Valley, CA

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Intelligent Hiring Assistant for Decision Makers Vicicit, Inc. a Delaware based C-Corporation, is a cloud based candidate generation software system. It applies data science and artificial intelligence algorithms for generating qualified and available candidates in the relevant job market. It enables hiring decision makers (“Users”) to make hires on time & on budget. We are applying intelligence for hiring and planning. The technology is used by hiring teams to make successful hires. The software processed more than 200 tech reqs and generated more than 500 candidates for Fortune 1000 as well as SMBs including VC funded start-ups. These companies are based in the Silicon Valley, New England and New York regions.

Dan Driscoll

Austin, TX

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder of reQwip.com and CityFC.org Advisor to Prepify.me & Founderati.io Worked at Expedia, Universal Sports, EnviroMedia & The University of Texas at Austin EDUCATION: * MBA & MA in Advertising, The University of Texas at Austin * BA, Pomona College * MakerSquare ADDITIONAL: * Included in Built in Austin's 2015 list "50 Austin tech CEOs, founders, designers & hackers you should follow on Twitter" * Writing, work and insights have been featured in publications such as The Economist, VentureBeat, Poets & Quants, Universal Sports, NBCOlympics.com, NBCSports.com, Austin Monthly, Bicycling Magazine, The Austin Statesman, The Los Angeles Times, Built In Austin, various local TV news segments and more

Alice Liang

San Francisco, CA

$600.0/min N/A 0 $10/min

Canadian Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Co-Founder of Sensassure (Acquired 2016). Currently COO of Lenda (Formerly VP of Sales and Ops and VP of Product). Mentor for Ascent (by Sequoia Capital), Advisory Board Member for Junior Achievement of Northern California, Co-Organizer for Women in Product

Madhur Malik

India

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Associated with Indian Govt's Atal Incubation and Atal Tinkering Labs, helping/supporting/mentoring startups and students in achieving and taking right path and direction by knowing what not to do along with how to do !

Red Russak

Greater Seattle Area

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Hi, my name is Red. I love tech startups, public service and community. Founder of StartupSeattle, curator for StartupDigest and driven to help startup communities around the world grow and learn from each other!

gregory nicholas

LOS ANGELES, CA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

founded @PICT (@AngelPad, acquired, @POPSUGAR). fashion, ecommerce, music: @UNVAEL, @Naja, @VÆL Project. engineer @Broadcom

Darshan Gandhi

Mumbai ,India

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder @ JobsQuest | VC @ Underscore, Aureolis | RA @ Stanford University | Data Scientist @ BookMyShow | MIT PathCheck

JB Woodruff

Cincinnati, OH

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

My specialty is working with pre-seed, tech-based B2B companies who are interested in becoming investable.

Steve Rubenfaer

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Founder & CEO BettorTakes Founder & CEO Mission de Flores SF Founder & CEO Rubystamps SF Partner Artmecca Founder Vegas Kids

Marco Blumendorf

Berlin, Germany

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Co-Founder of Startups in Smart Home, Energy Management, Sustainability, App Development Mentor for Technology and Business Questions JavaScript, React, React-Native Developer

Syed saleem Soudagar

oman

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Syed saleem, mechanical engineer from India, having in depth knowledge about Vehicle equipment and machienry maintaince and service related question.

Ryan Kim

Los Angeles, CA

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Entrepreneur. Founder @ Adomi. Passionate about helping people develop their careers in the same way my mentors helped me! Previous work: Deloitte, managed teams of 100+ ambassadors during my time @ UCSB (Go Gauchos!). I can help you with: all things related to startups, public speaking, business development, sales, strategy, management, accounting, finance, emotional/mental health, pep talks, and tiny homes (ADUs)!

Geoff Anderson, Ph.D.

Montreal

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Radian6, OMsignal, Hootsuite, Veri. Been in the scene about 15 years have successes and scars to prove it. Ask me.

Simon Kags

Birmingham, United Kingdom

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

I'm on Clarify to help individuals follow their passion and start an online business. Having created and launched over 24 web solutions (3 award winning) over the last 15 years, I'm your man if you need to understand how to turn your idea into an income generating online product. My successes and failures will provide you with valuable insights. At 26 I was voted 'Young Entrepreneur of the year' and most recently I was awarded The Young Professional of the year award for technology. I'm currently the CTO & Co-founder of a fast growing Education Management Saas business with customers in over 24 countries across the world. In my spare time I mentor early stage startups and speak on navigating the startup journey.

Dorethia Conner

$100.0/min N/A 7 $1.67/min

Personal Finance/Business Expert & Coach at Conner Coaching, Founder of The Money Chat..numbers lady who is a little too geeked about about financial empowerment!

Lenna Lou

London, United Kingdom

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Founder of The L Factor Ltd Co-Founder of a variety of platforms Business Mentor to Cherie Blair Foundation, various platform.

Martin Welker

Karlsruhe, Germany

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Founder and CEO of Axonic, a German-based Software Vendor. Axonic is completely bootstrapped and runs 5 software products, ranging from 100k - 2m users.

Joe Weischedel

Philadelphia, Pa

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Coach, Logistics Professional Experienced ops/logistics professional that can help you overcome common fears and engage your audience. I have presented from operations through the C-suite and you can too!

Christian Delacruz

Panama

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Business Mentor. Entrepreneur (Chemical Engineer) with more than 20 years of experience in Strategic Planning, Development and Creation of Businesses and Companies in Latin America, Central America, Europe, Russia and Ukraine. Co-Founder of DLC Consulting Group (specialized in corporate consultancy), company of W3H Holding. Founding Partner of W3H, Holding of companies specialized in Branding, Retail, Event Production, Recovery of businesses in crisis. Founding Partner of HE PROJECT (platform to help the entrepreneur integrating educational and financial services that works under the E2E concept developed in Panama). Specialist in (FMCG), Retail and Shopper Marketing. E2E: Entrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur; Platform of tools developed by Entrepreneurs for Entrepreneurs.

Faz Yasin

London

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Tech Startup Entrepreneur, Super Start-up Consultant. Specialising in Fashion Tech, AI, AR,Execution and Growth Strategy

LeX Tan

Europe | US | Asia

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Born in Malaysia, living in Germany, heading Insurtech company and operate in 3 continents. LeX is a serial entrepreneur (founded 5 companies), Insurtech Influencer, Founder of MotionsCloud (Global Insurtech company), Conference Speaker, Internet Marketer, and engineer. I love to share the learning, industry knowhow and tips to succeed in business that can scale globally.

Ioannis Antypas

London, United Kingdom

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Founder @ Hela Job, Jukkie Digital Agency, UCanHost and Minatrox. Also: number #1 best selling author, serial entrepreneur, marketer, strategist, startup fanboy, internet & social addict.

Eugenio Bremer

Monterrey, Mexico

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Lifelong entrepreneur and book geek, co-founder and COO at TipiTop.mx a 500Startups company. I believe TIME is life's most important asset and I live by a work-hard play-hard philosophy.

Abhijeet Vibhandik

India

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Mentor of Change: Atal Innovation Mission (An Initiative from Indian Govt for Revolutionising Education Industry.) Founder and CEO at Stalwart Research: Helped more than 4 Multi-National Companies to optimize business processes with the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and E-Commerce. Founder and CEO at Stalwart's Space Pvt Ltd.: Responsible for Establishing Stalwart's Space Business Incubation Center, Managing and Successfully converting it into a self-sustainable Business Incubation Center. Helped in the establishment of innovation Labs at Educational Institutions, Maker Spaces, Collaborative Spaces, Open-Lab establishment. Ideated, Prototyped, Built, Executed, and Scaled a total of 6 Start-ups at the Incubation Center. (Tech & Non-Tech).

Rihards Grundmanis

Riga, Latvia

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Investor. Project Manager. 40+ countries visited. Advisor for Real Estate investment in Latvia, Riga Banking EMV expert for Data Prep and Perso. eGOV advisor for ePassport and eID issuance.

Mwansa Chanda

Ndola

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Mwansa Cahnda Founding Partner at Plug Television Limited@ 150 Startups. also: geek, entrepreneur, marketer, startup lovebird, Management expert and advertising guru.

Tiago Oliveira

Portugal

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Former Entrepreneur: against-all-odds founder of the Portuguese Brand of Pianos @ age 21. Long-time consultant on Strategy & Startups. Currently Innovation Specialist & Senior Project Manager at a leading Retailer. Passionate about Startups, Innovation & Technology!

Sandi MacPherson

Palo Alto

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

2x VC-backed founder based in SF. Previously worked on social news platform Quibb (rip), now working on a new social product. Expert on early-stage startups, particularly product and fundraising.

Nargiz Mammadova

Toronto, Ontario

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

A tech entrepreneur based in Toronto, Canada. Co-founder of Destin.ai – Passionate about giving back. +10 years in technology, media, and branding industries. Experienced AI /Legal Tech/B2C fields. Has an executive education from Switzerland, Japan, and Canada.

Ann Lai

Hong Kong

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Expertise to help clients to setup their companies in APAC, particularly in Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and Singapore Provide consultancy service and suggestions to make sure startups in APAC are compliance on all areas

Jennifer Welsh

Los Angeles, CA

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Since 2010, I've helped tech startups develop scalable office operations and intentional company cultures. Today, I'm using my experience to help early-stage startups avoid expensive people and money mistakes.

Will Fraser

British Columbia, Canada

$100.0/min N/A 1 $1.67/min

Canadian Entrepreneur. Founder of Referral SaaSquatch – Learned through failure. Focused on web companies with revenue objectives. Built ad-tech for entertainment, SaaS, and mobile games.

Julien Sornay

London

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Product designer and Product Manager. I have 9 years of proven experience building and designing innovative web/desktop and mobile products on a global scale. Worked 4 years in Silicon Valley and 5 years in Europe I have experience across B2C, B2B and Enterprise solutions. See my portfolio here: http://www.juliensornay.com/ Currently working on stealth startup.

Ameen Sayeed

Bangalore

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Tech Entrepreneur, Creative marketer, and Tech Evangelist. Founder at @adinflu and @Waferlabs – Advisor/Mentor (4+ tech startups). Trained on strategy by world leaders. Can help Startups anywhere from idea to product stage and help big giants on Technology advice ( Hardware & Software ), Growth hacks, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Electronics, IOT and product. Passionate to give back.

Santiago Sanchez

Mexico City

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Professionally, I have worked as a consultant for public and private, small and large enterprises, government and nonprofits through various projects in strategy, finance, organization and new project development across different industries with multi-disciplinary teams. I have also worked at venture capital firms in USA and Mexico leading investment decisions, supporting entrepreneurs and managing investor relations. I advocate for a balance between strategy and execution.

john doe

san francisco

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

I help online businesses