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Miky Bayankin – Meet the Mentor

My name is Miky, I'm an entrepreneur, startup founder, and a product manager. I have a background in product, operations, business and people leadership. Most of my career, I have been launching new products and businesses - both as standalone companies and within the larger companies.

Lea Skrinjar – Meet the Mentor

I’m a seasoned Product Strategy Consultant and the Founder of Pax6 Design Consultancy with a decade of experience in Product under my belt. I began my career as a teaching assistant and researcher in the fields of Architecture and Urban Planning which has contributed to the knowledge and approaches I use now. Besides work, you'll often find me immersed in my passions—competitive tennis and piano.

Milad Mahdian – Meet the Mentor

Milad is a tech lead at Google, with a focus on improving automated bidding at Google Search and Shopping ads. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of the Turtles app, a customer marketing and engagement platform for brick and mortar small businesses.

Product-Market Fit and Pivot

A Blueprint for a Startup Founder

Walking the Tightrope: Balancing Decisions as an Early-stage Product Manager or Founder

Understanding how to work as a product manager or early stage founder in a startup can feel like a complex task. This article shares some useful ways to make good decisions quickly and plan effectively in this fast-paced environment.

Karl Schmidt – Meet the Mentor

I’m a Fractional CTO, formerly a game programmer, game studio co-founder, indie game developer, and head of engineering in fintech. I’ve been in software professionally for over 17 years and shipped projects on 13+ platforms. I've learned a lot (still learning!) and have a lot to share.

Cold Calling for Startups: A Founder's Guide to Effective B2B Sales

Do you know what stands between you and your next big client? It’s just a phone call away. Yes, the art of cold calling is often misunderstood and underutilised. However, it still holds a strong place in the sales game.

How To Validate Your Startup Idea In 6 Weeks?

Have you ever wondered if your startup truly achieved Product-Market Fit? In this blog post, we explore the 7-Fit Framework, a comprehensive approach to help startup founders reach and validate their PMF, focussing on the first with of Customer-Problem fit (a.k.a. Idea Validation) and providing actionable insights for each step.

Stuart Megarry – Meet the Mentor

Stuart Megarry, London-based Serial Entrepreneur with plenty of success and failure under his belt. Mentor to start-up founders and those working in start-ups.

The Only One Guide to B2B Services Sales

A list of books, resources, and best practices that helped me to start my +8 years adventure as a B2B Sales focused co-founder, so you don't have to do it.

Andrea Hobby – Meet the Mentor

My name is Andrea and the Founder of Health Data Science Newsletter. Also, I work as a Data Scientist at Accenture.

Yoel Frischoff – Meet the Mentor

I am a Product and strategy consultant, working with technology startups and founders. My focus is on strategy formation where I help founders find their value proposition, laying the ground to successful funding rounds.

Headcount Planning for Seed Stage Startup

Headcount is one of the biggest expenses of running a startup, so it pays to plan ahead. This guide is designed for pre-seed to late-seed-stage founders, executives, and recruiters alike to simplify their headcount planning process and sharpen their hiring skills.

Sebastian Scheerer – Meet the Mentor

Hey there, I’m Sebastian. Founder and designer of the world's most loved productivity tool „Wunderlist“ (sold to Microsoft in 2015) and Germany‘s first paperless private health insurance company.

What to ask to a start-up founder before accepting any offer

If you are joining a start-up, you will probably not receive any salary. Understanding the product and tech stack used is not enough. As you are leveraging risks, you must know the company's current financial state, the expected founding rounds, evaluation, cost-per-user and long-term goals of the co-founders (exit strategy).

The C in CEO stands for Confidence

Being a CEO or Founder is hard. The pressure, the expectations, and the responsibility are all overwhelming. If I had listened to my fears and doubts, and stayed there, I wouldn't be here today sharing with you my path. Here are three things that helped me develop my confidence along the way:

Overcoming a challenging career change with grit, determination, and the right mentor

Joris Zierold had been working in the media and publishing industry for many years as a founder, engineer, and managing director when he decided to transition into blockchain technology in 2021.

Felix Gerlach – Meet the Mentor

Felix Gerlach is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Passbase, a privacy focused identity verification tool. Launched in 2018, Passbase has since raised over $17 million in funding.

Greg Zen – Meet the Mentor

Through mentoring startup founders, I found the area of service I am most passionate about and have sculpted my career, including products, toward empowering entrepreneurs as my life's work.

Strategy 101 – A Founder's Toolkit

A quick glance over strategy for first-time founders at startups. This article aims to assist founders throughout their first steps in the strategic field and strategic modeling of their business.

Why Do Start-Up Founders Need a Mentor?

Mentorship is the best-kept open secret in the business, and in this series of articles, I explained why. It’s a great way to speed up your career progression without cutting corners or having to make your own costly mistakes.

How a 19 Year Old Makes $20,000 Per Month with Affiliate Marketing

Daniel Proctor shares how he makes more than $20,000 per month with Affiliate Marketing working 100% online part-time from his laptop. Founder of Student Wow Deals Net Worth 2.5 Million at age 26.

8 Tips: How to get your first 10 paid customers (B2B)

Almost every early-stage SaaS founder is facing the same question! 'How do I find my first (paying) customer?' In this blog article, I will share with you how you will succeed in winning your first 10 paid customers for your product.

Funding your Start-Up

Stuart is an experienced & exited founder who in this post offers a unique insight into how to fund your start-up idea

Meeting right cofounder for your startup

Meeting a cofounder for your startup can be a daunting task. You got the idea, and you want to take it to the next level, but at the same time, you’re afraid of everything that can go wrong if you trust the wrong person.

Top 6 mistakes founders and product managers should learn to avoid

I’ve started several startups, worked in companies as Senior Product Manager and as a Business Development Manager. Due to my various roles, I understand well that a product has a job to do, there should be product-market fit, customers have to understand the value and strategies should be in place to help scale the company’s growth.

How can a startup mentor help your business succeed?

Are you a startup founder or someone who wants to grow their side project but doesn’t know what to do next? A startup mentor might help you achieve your goals and succeed in unexpected ways.