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San Francisco, California

$200.0/min 4.9 397 $3.33/min

Currently, Founder of VC-backed BetterCompany, an anonymous social network for your work life. Serial entrepreneur. Early pioneer of crowdfunding. Active angel investor. Former investor for a $500,000,000 ed tech fund that was the controlling shareholder of LeapFrog at it's IPO. I started my career at Apple when I was 15. I am passionate about supporting other entrepreneurs anyway I can. My Clarity reviews are examples of how I can help any entrepreneur at any stage of their journey.

Boris Wertz

Vancouver, British Columbia

$300.0/min 4.6 65 $5/min

Entrepreneur turned investor. Co-founder AbeBooks (sold to Amazon), early-stage investor through @versiononevc (50+ investments, including Indiegogo, Flurry, Frank & Oak, Indochino, Wattpad, Edmodo). Husband and dad of 4.

Robb Kunz

Salt Lake City, Utah

$150.0/min 5.0 43 $2.5/min

Founder. Entrepreneur. Angel Investor. TechStars & 500 Startups Mentor & Investor. Invested in more the 100+ Startups. Deep Lean Startup / Product Guy. Runs BoomStartup, mentorship-driven driven Seed Accelerator in our 6th year and rated number #12 in the World.

Peter Pham

California

$1000.0/min 4.7 35 $16.67/min

Co-Founder & Partner at Science which is behind Dollar Shave Club, DogVacay, Ellie. Formerly Co-founded Color, CEO of BillShrink and VP Bizdev (5th employee) at Photobucket (Sold for $300M) Fund Raising, Strategy, Marketing, and Bizdev. Raised over $100M in Venture in the last 2yrs. Call me if you want advice.

Jason Leo Carvalho

San Francisco, California

$200.0/min 4.8 50 $3.33/min

I have been a Founder & 1st Employee of 7 startups over my career. 2 Failures. 2 raised VC & Acquired. 2 reached 40M 2.7M Crowdfunded. *Updated May 2017*

Ryan Chaffin

New York City

$60.0/min 4.9 26 $1/min

Don't let the young face fool you. Ryan Chaffin is a crowdfunding expert and startup advisor. He has helped 100+ crowdfunding projects raise over $3 million, blowing past their funding goals.

Victor Levitin - Award winning eCommerce expert, 10 yrs experience

Israel

$600.0/min 5.0 13 $10/min

I took an eCommerce business from zero to $4.5m in annual sales. Selling on eBay, Amazon and webstores. Won eBay awards for the highest conversion rates. I share everything I've learned from our journey on a weekly blog - https://crazylister.com/blog/

Shishir Gupta

San Francisco, CA

$100.0/min 5.0 23 $1.67/min

I have helped more than 500 startups worldwide. #Founded first startup in year 2001 - 16 years of business experience. #CEO of leading Startup Consulting Firm, # Investment Banker - Angel Investment, A Series for startups. # Startup Lawyer - Corporate legal matters. #Full Stack Developer - Software Architecture Web/App # Experience of AngelList - Connected to Angel Investors/VCs worldwide # Mentor, Advisor & Consultant for Startups # Author of Startup Easy - A Practical Guide Featured on CNBC Young Turks, TiE the Knot, Startup Weekend & Startup Grind.

Aaron Vidas

Vancouver, British Columbia

$150.0/min 4.8 9 $2.5/min

I help Retail and B2B companies determine their marketing ROI and what to do next in their marketing and sales to drive up their revenue. Worked around the Olympics + B2B tech startups. Traveled the world, passionate about values-driven entrepreneurship.

Sebastian Roberts

San Francisco

$150.0/min 5.0 25 $2.5/min

Specialize in strategic positioning of young and small companies. Focused on authentic positioning articulated through product marketing, brand development, and cultural alignment. Co-founder of B2B2C startup Tip Network and ecommerce startup Vicinity Commerce. Advisor to several venture funded and bootstrapped startups. Brand and growth strategy consultant to advertising and software development agencies.

Kate Kendall

San Francisco

$300.0/min 4.9 22 $5/min

Founded CloudPeeps freelance marketplace and The Fetch professional event platform. Advises on marketing, email, building remote teams, crowdfunding, community, content, and angel/seed fundraising in the Australian and US market. Clarity Live speaker.

Michael Litt

Waterloo, Ontario

$300.0/min 5.0 11 $5/min

Clarity's most honest advisor = )

Jeremy Gregg

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

$60.0/min 4.9 47 $1/min

3-time TEDx speaker. $40M raised for nonprofits. Winner of 2 pitch contests. "Nonprofit Communicator of the Year." Published author. Entrepreneur with an Executive MBA. Former CDO for Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) and Executive Director for a boutique family law firm. I offer coaching on how to deliver amazing presentations, pitches, and speeches. I also provide advice on fundraising for nonprofits, including grantwriting. All calls get free follow-up by email.

Jonathan Crawford

San Francisco, California

$200.0/min 5.0 12 $3.33/min

Jonathan Crawford is an entrepreneur, designer, engineer and startup mentor based in San Francisco. He founded Storenvy.com in 2009 and raised $7m from top Silicon Valley investors (after being admitted to and kicked out of Y Combinator) to make e-commerce accessible and affordable for the world's creative small businesses. After building a team of 30 & a community of over 100k merchants, he sold Storenvy in 2016. Jonathan mentors startups around the world on marketplaces, product, branding, UX & strategy.

Mark Taylor

Fredericton, New Brunswick

$100.0/min 4.8 16 $1.67/min

15 years of experience in North America and Europe. 300 companies helped. My clients have achieved millions of dollars in sales and received press in major media outlets such as CNBC. I can provide you with practical advice and a step-by-step plan to achieve success.

Robert DiLoreto

Greater Boston Area

$60.0/min 4.8 35 $1/min

Business growth and strategy expert, working with founders and executive teams of early and growth stage technology and solutions companies. Specializes in accelerating the awareness and growth of disruptive technology and software platforms, targeting global organizations. Focused on defining and executing new business models to acquire both NEW large strategic customers and global partners (B2B); and/or direct-to-consumer (B2C) models with low "cost-to-acquire" metrics. Secure start-up funding (Seed + Series A) with effective long-term revenue plans. Over 20 years of domestic and international sales, strategy, business development and operations experience at venture-backed start-ups. Some start-ups have grown to $100M+ including 2 IPO's and 4 acquisitions while leading operations. Pioneered and scaled multiple disruptive technology and solutions areas that have now become validated markets. Specific areas include mHealth devices and cloud engagement platforms | Digital health | Big data, analytics | Mobile business and consumer apps | RFID / Internet of things | Medical devices | Gamification | Enterprise software | Supply chain innovation | Social Robots | Sound Recognition / Interpretation leveraging Deep Learning Neural Networks | Generated over $100M in new business revenues.

Charles Solomon

New York City

$120.0/min 5.0 12 $2/min

Consultant to start-ups across Americas currently leading VC/PE partnerships for ADP. Current screener for Dreamit Ventures, Tufts $100K contest and mentor for Start-up Mexico. Former portfolio manager @ 21212, accelerator in Rio de Janeiro Expertise: accelerators, fundraising, analytics, human capital management, & LatAm. Columbia MBA.

Christine Lu

Los Angeles, California

$350.0/min 5.0 11 $5.83/min

Christine Lu has spent the last two decades active in cross border Chinese business and investment trends. She is recognized as a Digital Leader by the United Nations Foundation and named to Foreign Policy’s inaugural “Pacific Power Index” which recognizes 50 individuals shaping the future of U.S. and China ties.

Evan Luthra

Worldwide

$1000.0/min 5.0 3 $16.67/min

Evan Luthra has that rare and coveted ability to turn original ideas into businesses that are both innovative and profitable. At 21 years-old, he has an already impressive resume and career history. He started his journey as a serial entrepreneur as an adolescent and was bitten by the "digital bug" early and often. This forward thinking, technology-minded entrepreneur embarked on his first digital endeavor at just twelve years-old by curating technology-related news, and he garnered a notable quarter of a million readers in doing so. He then began developing mobile apps at the advent of mobile app popularity. Always on the cusp and leading edge of new trends and innovations, he has become a true innovator and recognized name in the world of Startups. He has started various technology companies and at one time, managed products used by millions of people. Evan has extensive knowledge and experience in mobile apps and his company, EL Group International has developed and delivered mobile apps for major Fortune 500 companies. Evan's strategy follows a simple, but proven formula: conceptualize, innovate, execute. Evan is an accredited Angel Investor and invests in a variety of products and businesses through his Startup Studio and venture capital company, Fresh VC. He is a featured speaker at different universities and conferences around the globe; he speaks about Mobile Apps, Entrepreneurship and trending tech topics, to huge audiences. With his keen insights and digital expertise, Evan is constantly thinking of new ideas that will innovate, simplify and make daily quality of life that much better.

Tom Leung

Zurich

$150.0/min 5.0 53 $2.5/min

Product management at YouTube, founder of Anthology, former Googler, Microsoftie. Harvard Business School alum. Love to share experiences and insights around product strategy -- particularly as it relate to startups. Sorry, can not discuss anything related to YouTube or Google. Happy to hop on a call in the evenings or on weekends.

Peter Szymanski

For startups and entrepreneurs

$350.0/min 5.0 3 $5.83/min

Entrepreneurs from all over the world are asking where do I find top know-how, tools, and resources I need for my startup right now...? I have 15+ years of experience helping startups get funded and grow...

Becky Straw

New York, New York

$60.0/min 4.8 6 $1/min

Co-Founder and CEO of The Adventure Project, (www.theadventureproject.org) a nonprofit "adding venture" capital to support entrepreneurs in developing countries. Former charity: water executive and UNICEF consultant. Lover of people and good deeds.

Jared Fuller

San Fransisco, CA

$175.0/min 5.0 7 $2.92/min

I'm a 4x founder (including #1 trending startup on AngelList) and current VP of Sales @PandaDoc and am responsible for all PandaDoc revenue. I've learned most everything I know the hard way – fail, learn, succeed. I've motivated, hired, or directly placed hundreds of people in my businesses and non-profit causes. I've generated tens of millions in sales, raised tens of millions in venture & angel capital, and built products, marketing campaigns, websites, and apps that have shipped to millions.

Russel Cheng

Honolulu, Hawaii

$100.0/min 5.0 8 $1.67/min

Entrepreneur, startup mentor and advisor. Co-founder XM Asia (acquired), Founder Organic Asia (IPO), Co-founder Dev League, Co-director Founder Institute Honolulu chapter, Co-founder Readerie.com and Founder StartupHui. Built companies in US, Tokyo and Singapore. Lived in Asia for 16 years. I know a thing or three about Japan, China, Singapore, Asia, fundraising, product market fit, customer acquisition and revenue generation related to internet, web and mobile. Ex-Microsoft, Leo Burnett, Bates Advertising. Green tea drinker and North Shore surfer. Owner of two cats.

keith Ippel

Vancouver, BC

$250.0/min 5.0 7 $4.17/min

Canadian Entrepreneur. Founder of Spring, a purpose driven activator and advisor to companies including Hootsuite, Brightkit (acquired by Hootsuite), Momentum, Crisp Media and Control. EiR at Wavefront. Raised over $20M in angel and VC funding. Strengths in scalability, capital raising, leadership, and digital media. Passionate about purpose, converging impact with for profit businesses

James Haft

New York, New York

$500.0/min 5.0 16 $8.33/min

Founder: www.PALcapital.com www.PALgenesis.com www.StartupHub.nyc www.Condo.com www.NXTPLabs.com Advisor to more than 20 startups and Internet businesses. Mentor at www.TechStars.com and accelerators on 5 continents. I help founders and CEOs develop and execute strategies to build equity value and create liquidity. www.Angel.co/JamesHaft www.LinkedIn.com/in/jameshaft Founder PALcapital.com, PALgenesis. Com, Condo.com, Houses.com & Properties.com. Founder of Largest Accelerator in LatAm.

Dan Abelon

Greater New York City Area

$400.0/min 4.7 14 $6.67/min

Grew startup to 23 Million users and sold to Match.com. I offer actionable feedback on growth hacking, viral marketing, Facebook, mobile and more. I've advised 100+ startups including those backed by investors such as Accel, Bessemer, and Y Combinator. Grow your userbase without paying for it.

Ariel Poler

San Francisco, California

$1000.0/min 4.8 10 $16.67/min

Ariel is an entrepreneur, mentor and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, SpeedDate and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of Freedom Financial and Strava. Ariel's angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Pantheon, ThumbTack, Mashery, BrightRoll, Optimizely, Viki, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. Ariel is addicted to kitesurfing - particularly kite foiling and kiting on waves...

Sebastian Amieva

London, United Kingdom

$1000.0/min 5.0 2 $16.67/min

Sebastian Amieva Mergers and Acquisitions Expert. He bought 5 companies in distress then restructured them and after only 2 years, he sold the companies winning over 120 million pounds. Sebastian Amieva is leading a Private Equity Firm Based in London. He loves mentoring and taking people to the next level but only has time for 10 Entrepreneurs per year. Mergers and Acquisitions Background: - Acquisition of Argentinian transport company. 11 millions USD. - Acquisition of an Argentinean ink manufacturer by an - American investment fund. - Acquisition of an Argentinean healthcare company by a Swedish company. - Acquisition of Aluminium packaging manufacturer based in Germany acquired by UK investments firm. - Acquisition of E-commerce platform Personal Care from India to EU.

Eran Eyal

New York

$200.0/min 5.0 14 $3.33/min

Co-founder // COO at Passo, CEO & founder StartupHat, Springleap, co-founder Evly (acquired). Designer of 16 mobile handsets (acquired). Angel investor and advisor at multiple startups. Passionate about startups and working with amazing people to solve big problems in a scalable way, especially crowdsourcing and marketplaces. I advise on raising angel/seed/vc fundraising in the US, EU and African markets, crowdsourcing, community, marketplaces, marketing, strategy, and crowdfunding. Our achievements at Springleap (my startup): 1. won Techstars Pitchnite 2. won Alleyboost Investor Pitchnite 3. won the United Nations World Summit Award for most innovative ebusiness, 4. was listed in Fast Company most innovative companies, 5. winner of Mentorcamp Canada and 2nd place at the Innovation 100 awards in California - beating Apple, Zazzle, eBay, Zappos and all our competitors. I'm here to help. Looking forward to connecting.

Lucy Guo

$200.0/min 5.0 7 $3.33/min

Current YC Founder that just raised a Series A from Accel. Ex Product @ Snapchat, Quora. Ex-Software Engineer @ Facebook, Endless Mobile. Designed Snapchat Chat V2 and worked on stories. At Quora, I doubled mobile conversions (sign ups), worked on redesigning the ask/search bar, and helped redesign the landing pages. I worked on Messenger at Facebook and helped create apps that helped people learn english at Endless Mobile.

George Favvas

San Francisco, California

$200.0/min 4.8 7 $3.33/min

Canadian living in San Francisco. Serial entrepreneur, cofounder of PerkHub, mentor @ FounderFuel accelerator. Ask me about: Product development, Distribution, Accelerators, Affiliate programs, Metrics, Fundraising, Bitcoin.

Tony Bjornson

San Francisco, California

$600.0/min 5.0 3 $10/min

Global Payments Strategy, Building Sales Teams From Ground Zero, Channel Sales/Partner Development, Merchant Acquisition, Banking, Electronic Payments, Credit Networks, Debit Networks, Closed Payment Networks, Gift Networks, NFC, ACH, EFT, Card Present & Card Not Present Environments, Payment Gateways & API's, Interchange Management, Electronic Bill Presentment, Mobile Payments, Payment Integration, Data Tokenization, Payment Card Industry (PCI-DSS) Compliance, PAD Processing, Bitcoin, Digital Currency Processing & Liquidation, Marketplace Processing, Transaction Modelling, Recurring Billing, Subscription Services, P2P, Startups.

Raad Ahmed

New York City

$250.0/min 4.8 7 $4.17/min

Multiple entrepreneur. $2M+ raised for LawTrades - on demand lawyers (500 Startups '15). Scaled Facebook web app to over 4M users. Published in Forbes, Inc. Apple News. Law school graduate and natural born hustler. I am passionate about helping entrepreneurs at any stage in their cycle.

Amrit Pal

San Francisco, CA, United States

$200.0/min 5.0 5 $3.33/min

Product Manager at Square. Fellow at the world's only mobile payments institute. Talk to me about fintech, growth, products and UI/UX

Chris Yeh

$600.0/min 5.0 19 $10/min

Entrepreneur, angel investor, and writer. First angel investor in both Ustream and PBworks.

Dana Severson

Minneapolis, Minnesota

$100.0/min 5.0 3 $1.67/min

Dana Severson is the Director of Marketing at Promoter.io, Co-founder of StartupsAnonymous.com and founder of StickinaBox.co, a gourmet beef jerky subscription box. He is an AngelPad alum, a weekly contributor to Inc.com, and the former CEO of Wahooly. Rated by LinkedIn as one of the top 10 writers on Entrepreneurship in 2015.

Matt Brezina

San Francisco, California

$500.0/min 5.0 11 $8.33/min

Co-Founder & CEO of Sincerely.com (acquired by Provide Commerce). Co-Founder Xobni (YC '06, acquired by Yahoo). Investor in Dropbox, Mailbox (acquired by Dropbox), Wanelo, Voxer, Gametime, Rescale, 15five. Advisor to Weebly, Qualaroo

Jason Shah

San Francisco Bay Area

$300.0/min 5.0 1 $5/min

Product management at Amazon. Previously I founded Do.com and did product management at Yammer and Microsoft.

Utz Baldwin

Austin, Texas Area

$60.0/min 5.0 12 $1/min

Former Chairman and CEO of CEDIA, the global trade organization representing the connected home for 25 years. My current venture, Plum is an Austin based consumer hardware & software startup many refer to as the "Nest of Lighting". I have extensive domain knowledge in consumer electronics, IoT, connected home. Plum is one of the most successfully crowdfunded startups in recent history.

Adam Epstein

Toronto, Ontario

$100.0/min 5.0 0 $1.67/min

Founder of HUDDLERS, Corporate Lawyer, Hustler, Basketball Junkie, Product Guy

Kyle Hill

Santa Monica, CA

$450.0/min 5.0 2 $7.5/min

Founder/CEO of HomeHero (senior home care marketplace). Forbes "30 Under 30" in Healthcare. Raised $25M in venture funding with 3 different companies. Background in mobile payments, design, strategy and product development.

Arian Radmand

Greater Boston Area

$100.0/min 5.0 2 $1.67/min

Co-Founder of CoachUp Inc., 2015 Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur, Software Engineer, Angel Investor, mentor @ Techstars

Ash Fontana

San Francisco Bay Area

$250.0/min 4.8 8 $4.17/min

Expert: Fundraising (from seed to later stage), AngelList, crowdfunding and acquisitions. Useful: social networks, analytics software, machine learning businesses, data businesses, mobile products, location-based services, travel technology and loyalty programs.

Michael Johnstone

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

$300.0/min 5.0 6 $5/min

Founded 2 Tech Companies with successful exits. Director, Web Technology at Mark Cuban Companies. Founder of The Angel Forum. Mentor at Techstars. Michael is responsible for deal flow and manages internet and technology strategy for MCC portfolio companies. Available: Wed 8-9pm; Saturday 8-9am CST http://michaeljohnstone.us

Jayesh Parmar

Vancouver

$1000.0/min 4.7 5 $16.67/min

Not sure how, what, where or even if you should start your startup? Let’s chat! Many mistakes were made when I began my startup! These mistakes costed me time, money and opportunity. I did not know what I did not know. At that time, Clarity did not exist, so I asked questions and put myself out there the old fashion way. I applied, was accepted, packed my bags and moved across accelerators in San Francisco, New York City and Toronto. Being emerged in Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley and Toronto’s startup scene taught me powerful lessons! The lessons were invaluable and they brought me here, to Vancouver - the HQ of Picatic.com. I am happy to share my knowledge on how we raise seed capital, attracted co-founders, and built a strong foundational structure plus much more. Moreover, I am happy to chat about signaling. How and what you do signals to others that you are either "clueless", or “on point” and ready for investment. Here are a few low-level tips that signal that you are clueless: You ask investors to sign an NDA You have a business plan You don't know the difference between a priced round vs notes Vesting, cliff or ESOP are foreign words to you... If you have no clue what I am talking about above, that's ok. Honestly, I was clueless when I first started. What excites me is that I can pass on what took me years to discover in a fraction of the time. ––jay Jayesh Parmar is Picatic’s CEO/Cofounder. Picatic is an event management and ticketing platform. Create an event. Sell tickets online. Picatic is free for free and paid events. Jayesh is listed as one of the world's top 10 Tech Entrepreneurs Disrupting The Event Industry. A serial entrepreneur with over 2 decades of business experience, public speaking and he is a featured personality in the startup documentary DayJob. Cultivating an environment that focuses on cross-pollination, a pay it forward "how can I help you" attitude and a culture that invites the new, changes the “status quo” and pushes his edge are what Jayesh strives for. He doesn’t separate his personal life from his professional life as the two go hand in hand. He started his first company in 1998 and has been building companies ever since. Jayesh’s job is to oversee product, strategy and overall company vision and then to stay out of the proverbial kitchen and let his team get the job done.

Arjun Dev Arora

San Francisco, California

$300.0/min 5.0 6 $5/min

Arjun is an EIR at 500Startups, co-founded Immediately & founded ReTargeter (exited). Advised 20+ startups; invested in 20+ companies.

Matthew Marcus

Kansas City, KS

$60.0/min 5.0 9 $1/min

Professional philanthropist and entrepreneur. Co-founder of Hoopla.io, Local Ruckus and KULA Causes. Co-leader of the Kansas City Startup Village. Creator of the #boomsizzle hashtag.

Sean Simone

San Jose, CA

$120.0/min 4.9 20 $2/min

Founder of Yellow Jacket Stun Gun iPhone Case: $100K+ raised on Indiegogo ('12) & $2M+ raised from angel investors ('13). Established multiple manufacturing relationships in Shanghai & Shenzhen China ('13 & '14). Launched two separate smartphone accessories at CES ('14 & '15). Passionate about helping other hardware entrepeneurs.

Ed Farrell

Greater Detroit Area

$60.0/min 5.0 1 $1/min

Entrepreneur & advisor. Founder, Good Widget Company, ConferenceJuice, CareerSite (acquired 2003)