My focus is optimizing startup outcomes throughout The Startup Lifecycle.
I am available to engage with committed entrepreneurs, investors and startups who are driven to maximize their success. And I am available to private and institutional investors for due diligence support and hands-on work to optimize portfolio results.
Service examples for startups:
- Review and refine your vision and strategies
- Review and help you negotiate founders agreements
- Help brainstorm your branding, positioning and messaging
- Business model canvas development, review and refinement
- Product and service validation, testing and refinement
- Project resource requirements and help with product roadmap planning and development
- Review and refine your pricing and revenue models
- Build or refine your MVP
Email me to discuss how I can help your startup build a solid foundation.
Service examples for investors:
- Business model evaluation (and refinement)
- Competitive research
- Due diligence
- Emerging opportunity analysis
- Engineering workflow analysis
- Go to market strategy evaluation
- Hands-on interim leadership roles
- Intellectual property evaluation
- Product roadmap evaluation and development
- Risk assessment / Risk reduction
- System infrastructure evaluation and risk assessment
- Technology risk assessment
- Technical leadership evaluation
Email me to discuss how I can help optimize your portfolio returns.
Focus Areas:
Creating and shipping products people want:
- Product roadmap curation and oversight
- Appropriate technology decisions
- Intuitive and effective user interfaces
- Core architecture and data models
- Public and private APIs, 3rd party integrations
- Efficient and productive engineering, QA and DevOps,
- System design and implementation
Email me to discuss how I can help your startup optimize your product and platform.
Accelerating your growth by refining operations:
- Review and refine onboarding, training and support operations
- Review and refine engineering operations
- Enhance your onboarding processes and documentation
- Enhance and extend your technology integrations
- Evaluate and refine your KPIs and analytics
- Review and refine your architecture, technology and devops workflows
Email me to discuss how I can help your startup reduce friction and accelerate growth.
Competencies spanning nearly every aspect of startups:
- From raising money to exit strategies
- From team building to leadership and a culture of sustainable commitment
- From ideation and market validation through hands-on software development
- From interface design through creating an intuitive user experience
- From engineering leadership to scaling and fault tolerant distributed systems
- From sales and marketing to strategic partnerships
- From business models to strategies and tactics
Business experience and focus areas:
- Branding
- Business Model Canvas for product/market fit
- Business Strategy
- Capitalization
- Capital Efficiency
- Company Culture
- Cost Control
- Copywriting
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Finance
- Formation
- Founder Equity
- Fund Raising
- Intellectual Property (IP) including Trade Secret
- Lean Canvas for problem/solution fit
- Lean Startup Methodologies
- Marketing
- Marketplaces
- Onboarding
- Patent strategies, application and prosecution
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Retention (Churn reduction)
- Sales
- Strategic Partnerships
- Strategy
Email me to discuss how I can help your startup thrive.
Technology experience and focus areas:
- API design and development
- Application / Platform Architecture
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Augmented Reality (AR)
- Backend Development
- Blockchain technologies
- CSS, SASS
- Data Modeling
- DevOps
- Docker and containerization
- Full Stack Development
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Go (golang)
- gRPC services and APIs
- Heroku
- HTML
- Javascript, Typescript
- JSON APIs
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Load testing
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning (ML)
- Microservices and Service Meshes
- Node.js
- Performance optimization
- Product Development
- Product Management
- Python
- React Native
- Redis
- Ruby and frameworks: Roda, Sinatra, Grape, Rails
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Software Development
- System Architecture
- Tailwind CSS
- User Experience (UX) Design
- User Interface (UI) Design
- Vue.js
- Web Development