Founding – Advice from Experts

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Founding

Germany, Hamburg

$150.0/min 5.0 3 $2.5/min

I'm looking forward to assisting callers from all around the world to become investor friendly! Startup/ early-stage business Valuation Specialist Startup/ early-stage business Transaction Specialist Startup/ early-stage business Finance Consultant Startup/Founder Coach Business Growth Strategist Disruptive Innovation Enthusiast Venture Capital and Real Estate Investor. I've been actively engaged in both sides of the table in early-stage investing, and fundraising in early-stage and growth stage technology companies e.g. B2B, B2C, B2B2C solutions, focus on several verticals e.g. Fintech, Healthtech (Digital Health), Proptech, Regtech. Think of me as your startup/founder coach helping you boost your pitch, get your deck up to speed and help you become investor friendly for angels, seed investors, or A-round from top investors and VCs. I'm an angel investor myself and I advise more than 250 Startups and their founders so far. If you are looking to penetrate the European market and/or want to expand within Europe, I can help you to draft a successful market entry strategy, establish your footprint in Europe and start exploring previously unknown business territories. Serial Entrepreneur I Angel Investor www.investintek.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/samvakili/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/invest-in-tek/?viewAsMember=true

TK Kuegler

Manchester, NH

$1000.0/min 5.0 2 $16.67/min

Co-founder of Wasabi Ventures and best-selling author and speaker. Proven expert in all aspects of the technology startup world. Investor, founder, and adviser in over 250 plus startups over the last 25 years.

Patrick Hammer

München, Germany

$250.0/min 5.0 1 $4.17/min

Patrick founded BodyFast, the world's most successful intermittent fasting app with 23 million installs after 3.5 years and an eight-digit yearly revenue. Patrick also founded two other very successful companies with millions of users: GRIN.com and Open Publishing. GRIN.com is Germany's leading academic publishing platform with over 200,000 e-books, 150,000 printed books and 25 million visits a year. Open Publishing is a leading digital publishing platform for publishers and book wholesaler's.

lesa mitchell

Everywhere

$250.0/min 5.0 1 $4.17/min

Advisor/board member and growth partner to CEO's of newco's operating first in class business models or just struggling to scale in new markets. Former Exec at Kauffman Foundation, former CEO, former M&A exec in Pharma. Forbes 40over40 2013. Board member; Humin, Modern Meadow, Enstitute, CapLinked, HarpHealth, Althea Foundation TEDFellows Coach, SxSW Mentor and Coach

Derek Johnson

Denver, Co

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

Entrepreneur & Author of The Disruption Formula. Founder of Tatango. I help founders identify opportunities, test ideas fast, and scale using practical strategies drawn from building companies and studying business across industries.

Ricardo Tannus

São Paulo, Brazil

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

Founder and operator with 10+ years building and scaling startups and operating businesses across HR Tech, marketplaces, and B2B services. Co-founder of Catena.work, a growth-hacking-driven recruiting company that has helped 250+ companies make 700+ hires, reducing hiring time and cost by ~80%. Previously co-founded Join (UK HR-tech), led growth and new business at Revelo (Series B), and worked in product, automation, and operations roles at Ambev, XP, and IBM. I help founders and operators make better structural decisions around: • Hiring strategy and recruiting processes • Org design, roles, incentives, and operating cadence • Growth strategy, go-to-market, and experimentation • Process automation and operational scalability • Early-stage product and business model validation My style is highly practical, data-driven, and execution-oriented. Expect clear frameworks, concrete next steps, and honest feedback.

Achim Weidmann

Bremen / Germany

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

Consultant and Interim Manager International Technical Sales, Managing Partner of several SMEs, Founder of B2B company, M&A experience, Head of Global Sales, wide range of industries and applications, PhD "Engineering" / Darmstadt University Germany; MEng "Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering" / Cornell University USA; Business Administration / FU Hagen Germany

Paul Karaffa

Honolulu, HI

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

Ex-CEO & Exit Junkie. Also: founder, mentor, angel investor, IT services expert, and scaling ninja. On a mission to help founders crush their goals.

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

Hannah Wingle

Pottsville, PA

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

Founder of MetaPsychic Network. Owner/Operator of www.hannaholiviawingle.com-VA services business. Independent Business Consultant. Life Coach. Mom to be.

Simão Cruz

Lisbon, Portugal

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

Fintech I Forbes 30 Under 30 in Finance I Digital Strategy & Development I VC I Co-Founder Portugal Fintech I Investment Banking

Richa Prasad

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

If you're looking for advice in one of these 2 areas, I can give you clear, concrete direction. 1. You've worked at a big tech company and are looking to start your own company or join an early startup as a PM. I left Microsoft about 2 years ago and have been running my bootstrapped AI Health company. If you're someone who is looking into transitioning from a big tech employee to startup PM or want to start your own bootstrapped company or are vacillating between bootstrapping and funding, and come from a tech background, boy do I have learnings to share with you! There are some massive strategy shifts and who-to-listen-to changes I had to make, which I believe would cut your heartache in half. 2. You're struggling to get promotions at a big tech company. In my previous life, I was a PM at Microsoft having worked on Visual Studio for 4 years and Cortana for 4 years. If you're a tech person looking for help in figuring out promotions and/or dealing with your manager/PM/dev/design team, I believe I have good insights for you. How? I was promoted every year for 4 years in a row and it wasn't because I worked 100 hour weeks. There is a set of unsaid criteria you need to meet that exists within any big tech company because of the way they are structured, and having leaned into it the first 4 years, then leaned away from it in the last 4 years (I was promoted once when I leaned away), I have some good insights into what to do to position you well.