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Moncton, NB, Canada

$5000.0/min 4.9 215 $83.33/min

Canadian Entrepreneur. Founder of Clarity - Angel Investor (33 companies). Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired 11'), Founder of Spheric Technologies (Acquired 08'), Mentor @ 500Startup, GrowLabs & theC100.org

Stuart MacDonald

Toronto, Canada Area

$350.0/min 4.8 68 $5.83/min

Advisor | Previously CMO FreshBooks.com, CMO Expedia.com & founder Expedia.ca, co-founder mesh conference. I help with business growth, strategy, marketing and leadership. Mentor at JOLT Accelerator, CYBF and passionate about your success. When can we talk?

David Geiger

Columbus, Ohio Area

$200.0/min 5.0 74 $3.33/min

Over 18 years of customer acquisition, business development, sales, marketing and lead generation experience. Co-founder of a SaaS payment startup. I've built scaleable customer acquisition systems proven to quickly grow sales pipelines, generate revenue and retain profitable customers. I’ll share actionable growth tactics proven to generate leads, acquire customers and drive revenue, including: 1) Have a story to tell 2) Do things that don't scale 3) Target, Frequency, Message 4) The rule of 7 5) Pleasant persistence 6) WIIFM 7) B.A.N.T. 8) It's a numbers game 9) Get outside the building 10) Fit, Grit and Wit I'll also share why purchased lead lists suck, discuss various methods for generating qualified leads, and explain when it's best to do it yourself vs. outsourcing—saving you thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours. Currently, Vice President, Business Development @ CrossChx. Previously, Co-Founder of ePAY Healthcare; Sales @ Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Black & Decker. Startup advisor and mentor.

Brian Rabben | Mr. Wolf | @WolfOfGrowth

San Francisco, CA

$300.0/min 5.0 22 $5/min

Team Lead @ Google → Growth Mentor @ 500 Startups → Growth @ Heal → Founder & CEO @ Growth Wizards. "I science so good, you'll swear it's magic."

Charis(Bob) Rafailidis

Greece

$200.0/min 4.7 12 $3.33/min

Hustler in Sales & Growth, Platforms - Marketplaces passionate, big thinker, tech lover.

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.

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...

João Alexandre

Portugal

$100.0/min 5.0 8 $1.67/min

A minha consultoria é para empreendedores criativos que conhecem os seus negócios e público-alvo, mas ainda não têm mão firme em marketing ou estratégias online.

Laura Moreno

New York

$300.0/min 5.0 5 $5/min

Growth Hacker with 15+ years experience in Growing Businesses I help companies from all sizes Acquire more customers fast. I am also the Host of the Growth Hacking Podcast, where I get to interview founders and Growth Hacking Experts from all around the world.

David Fauchier

London, UK

$100.0/min 5.0 5 $1.67/min

I help business scale up by applying data to product and marketing. Founder @ Mr Wolf → Sustainable growth for venture-backed startups. https://fantasticmrwolf.com Previously, employee #1 @ YoyoWallet, and spent time at @Seedcamp and @Paypal.

Kristian Bouw

DC - NYC - SF

$100.0/min 5.0 2 $1.67/min

A developer, designer, and serial entrepreneur, Kristian is the founder and CEO at NotionTheory where he's helped over 30+ companies build and deliver their products to market in web, mobile, hardware, and virtual reality. He's a mentor to a host of startups and a frequent speaker on development and growth topics.

Ken LeBlanc

Moncton, New Brunswick

$500.0/min 4.8 22 $8.33/min

Founder: CEO - PropertyGuys.com, Canadian Franchising Guru, Mentor, Business Gladiator.

Brian Rothenberg

San Francisco, CA

$300.0/min 5.0 1 $5/min

VP Growth & Marketing at Eventbrite, Advisor: Shyp, Earnest & First Round Capital Expert Network. Former Co-Head of Marketing at TaskRabbit. Co-Founded SkillSlate (acquired by TaskRabbit). Former growth PM. 12+ years of product, entrepreneurship, growth, and marketing experience through literally every stage of startup growth. Particularly passionate about marketplaces.

Dan Kurani

NYC

$300.0/min 5.0 8 $5/min

Digital Entrepreneur w/Strong Product and User Growth Chops - Founder and CEO of Thumb, a mobile social network that generated over 3 billion opinions and yielded the highest usage time of any mobile app next to Facebook before being acquired by a leading market research company. - Founder of a Top 100 and award-winning interactive agency that produced numerous success for startups and companies that include Nike and Universal Studios. - Co-owner of a multi-channel retail chain with 250+ employees that led its category in highest net profit per sq. ft.

Matt Bell

Austin, TX

$100.0/min 5.0 10 $1.67/min

I am an entrepreneur with a strong expertise in marketing, growth, and business development. I am founder & CEO of an interactive marketing firm. I previously co-founded BrewDrop (acquired) and I'm also a mentor at Capital Factory, an accelerator in Austin, TX.

Rod Katzfey

Atlanta, Georgia

$250.0/min 4.3 55 $4.17/min

Principal of Katzfey's International. Former COO of PayLeap with over 20+ years in banking and electronic payments industry. Passionate about giving back and helping others grow their business and making money!

Tony Adam

Greater Los Angeles Area

$500.0/min 4.3 64 $8.33/min

Growth Consultant, CEO of Visible Factors. Formerly: Founder/CEO of Eventup. Worked at: Myspace, Yahoo! and PayPal. Proven track record and 10+ years experience in growth and online marketing. Expertise in SEO, User Acquisition, PPC/SEM, and Mobile App Installs.

Shane Walker

San Francisco, California

$150.0/min 5.0 1 $2.5/min

Entrepreneur with expertise in growth, specifically via email and social. I can grow your business. I've achieved 50M+ user registrations for 3 different companies in the past 5 years.

Maxx Freedman

San Francisco, CA

$60.0/min 5.0 2 $1/min

Advisor | Startup Operations & Growth Consultant | Expansion @Chariot @Instacart. Head of Ops @Fairy | Passionate about building and growing early-stage companies.

Rico Wyder

Singapore

$150.0/min 5.0 2 $2.5/min

Entrepreneur & angel investor working as Director APAC for Fiksu. Worked for Rocket Intenet and Tencube (acquired by McAfee). Expertise in Mobile (Android, iOS), user acquisition, growth strategy, consumer markets, marketing, product, doing business / expand to Asia

Tim Queen

London

$200.0/min 5.0 1 $3.33/min

Specialist on content marketing, audience growth and paid outreach campaigns. Serial entrepreneur and founder of The Growth Hacking Society. Public speaker and startup advisor.

glenn laumeister

Manhattan

$250.0/min 5.0 0 $4.17/min

INC 500 winner, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of The Year area finalist, Deloitte Fast 50. 3x company founder with E-commerce, and marketplace expertise.

Drew Koven

los angeles, california

$500.0/min 5.0 6 $8.33/min

Executive roles at: Guess Jeans, Steve Madden Shoes, The Beach People, FreshDirect Online Grocery and Food, Melissa & Doug Children's Toys / Startup, Mentor, Investment, Operations & Growth for eCommerce, Fashion, Footwear, Apparel, Entertainment, Digital Media and Marketing, Food & Retail Innovation, Home Decor

Christopher Spadafora

Toronto, Ontario

$60.0/min 5.0 2 $1/min

Sold $40M of B2B Tech, Founded 3 eCom Businesses, 100k+ in Direct Sales through Facebook, Instagram Influencers and Most Other Social Media Ad Channels

Dave Carruthers

Birmingham, United Kingdom

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

UK Tech Entrepreneur - Founder of @voxpopme, Strategy Director @oneresult and CTO of @staysafe - lover of all things mobile.

Petri Kajander

Tallinn, Estonia

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

Two decades of growth companies. Co-founder of OptoGaN and Libera Foundation. Strategy, funding, biz dev. Hands-on and results driven.

Hoang Pham

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

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

Call me for figuring out your highest impact for Growth. Currently Growth Hacker at Mollie.com, Growth Hacking Mastermind event organizer: http://bit.ly/2ha5cSF Previously at Revinate.com and thecirqle.com

Brian Slawin

Erie, PA

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

Startup mentor, advocate for entrepreneurs, tech, finance and operations executive with significant startup (to exit) and F500 experience. | Cycling relaxes me, Big ideas inspire me, Curious about everything else.

Drew Spitzer

San Francisco, CA

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

Builder of killer, cutting edge growth teams. Building killer sales development and lead gen systems with the best in breed tools for early stage companies.

Jesús Lucas

Sevilla, SE

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

Founding Partner & CTO Growth Hacker @OpenWebinarsNet. also: geek, entrepreneur, marketer, startup fanboy, internet & social addict, now helping to Growth Tarifasblancas.com and BuBoCar.com. Follow my Hacks at @GrowHackingEs

Wesley Eames

Provo, Utah

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

Founder of AncestorCloud. Internet marketer, growth hacker, UX designer.

Marat Gaziev

San Francisco

$175.0/min N/A 0 $2.92/min

Entrepreneur, advisor and expert SEO with over 8 years of experience working with growth stage startups.

Morgan Brown

Orange County, California Area

$250.0/min N/A 11 $4.17/min

Full stack marketer helping startups find growth. Founding team member of growthhackers.com.

Andrew Brackin

London

$100.0/min N/A 2 $1.67/min

18. Connecting communities w/ Crowdfunding. Founded GetDealy (100K users), Tomorrow's Web (Event sponsored by Twilio & VMWare). Spoke at Microsoft London and to 2500 at ICT Spring Europe. Featured by the WSJ, TNW, France 24 and TechCrunch. Licensed the music for a music streaming site at 15 and scaled team to 24/7 streaming with large community.

Nikhil Shah

London

$120.0/min N/A 4 $2/min

Cofounder @ Mixcloud; DJ and electronic music label boss @ ManMakeMusic; evangelist; community builder; newb triathlete

Marina Arefyeva

St.Petersburg, Russia

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

Helped 3 startups to grow, including one inside of Russia's biggest internet company. Agile and Kanban practicioner for last 5 years.

Rachel Kay Lambert

San Francisco, CA

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

Product Manager at Facebook with experience in Advertiser Growth, Instagram Growth, Oculus, Commerce. Former Dev Rel Evangelist / Ecosystem Growth @ Box. Love working with & on growth teams.

Sriram Krishnan

San Francisco, CA

$200.0/min N/A 2 $3.33/min

Call me to talk about growing your user base and expanding your company globally. Previously - international growth @ Spotify. Advice may differ by size of company, type of product or service, goal and stage of fundraising. Also, I am active in the nonprofit sector as Advisor @ Teach for Malaysia and Board Member @ Ars Minerva. My article on how nonprofits should learn from startups appeared on Fast Company in Sep 2014. I've been lucky; I've had amazing mentors who helped me over the past few years. Now, it's my turn to give back. Out of left field: SCUBA dive. Climb mountains. Skydived solo, twice.

Marcia Conner

Central Virginia

$500.0/min N/A 9 $8.33/min

Consulting with corporate execs and entrepreneurs to make work not suck & to learn nonstop. Serial book author. Education transformer. Global traveler. Often collaborative. Always candid.

Kent Fenwick

Toronto

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

Full-stack marketer. Growth @ Tilt.com Co-founder of WinJunkie sold to DMT 2013. Expertise in inbound, value add marketing, full stack marketing and growth.

Andrew Krebs-Smith

Boston, MA

$350.0/min N/A 0 $5.83/min

Founder of Social Fulcrum (customer acquisition for high-growth companies). Instructor (Digital Marketing) at Startup Institute and General Assembly. B.A. from Loyola University; MBA from Babson College.

Serge Doubinski

San Francisco Bay Area

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

Currently running and scaling multiple $30mil+ product lines. I primarily focus on developing product strategy, vision and building high growth products.

Kayvon Khalilzadeh

Vancouver, BC

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

My work is all about Effectiveness and creating results. 3 steps: Simplify, Clarify and Commitment Bio and testimonials: www.thesolefocus.com/now

Hannah Eisenberg

Highland Park, NJ

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

I help technology and software firms and other companies all over the world embrace inbound marketing and other forms of digital marketing. I was a marketing manager at SAP Global Marketing and SAP Corporate Strategy for 10 years, before opening my own inbound marketing agency in 2013. I am a proud Hubspot partner, Growth-Driven Design Evangelist and HubSpot Certified and Content Marketing Certified by Copyblogger. My achievements were recently honored with the Best Client Growth Story Impact Award for increasing a software company's sales pipeline by 13x within 5 months and I was nominated as a finalist for Best Emerging Business NJ. Pick my brain and lets craft you a strategy for success!

Colin Lernell

San Francisco, CA

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

I advise startups and F500 tech co's on Growth, Analytics & A/B testing. Product Manager at HourlyNerd (Greylock/Mark Cuban-backed MBA freelancer marketplace) - Product, Growth & Analytics specialist, former Growth at Tilt (Andreessen-backed Crowdfunding Platform), Founder at Mangia, Growth and North American Manager at PrepLounge.

Andreas Mitschke

Berlin

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

Have helped growing venture-backed and bootstrapped projects | former@google@kpmg@kochabo@feedbackfabrik | found@questalk(acquihire), aspiring to become @500distro Germany :)

Franco Varriano

Ottawa, Ontario

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

Rodger Stephens

Alexandria, VA

$250.0/min N/A 0 $4.17/min

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Maxime Salomon

Paris, France

$200.0/min N/A 1 $3.33/min

Co-founder of The Growth Bakery. Former Marketing at Algolia, YCW14.

David Ly Khim

Cambridge, MA

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

Acquisition Growth Marketing Manager at HubSpot. Advisor for United Way Youth Ventures. I help startups answer questions about customer acquisition, lead generation, and content marketing.