To give back to the tech community I’m offering free coaching for early stage startups, with an extra focus on those in the local Kitchener-Waterloo and GTA tech corridor.  The early days can be very messy and I've seen first hand just how challenging it can be when you are trying to build a team, build a product, and land customers all at the same time.  

 

I can help you:

• Uncover problems for your target market

• Validate your solution will solve those problem

• Build a simple prototype to demonstrate the solution

• Structure a go to market plan for how to reach prospects

• Sell your first customers to get early feedback from real users

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If any of the above points seem like they’re things your startup is missing or could benefit you, then let’s talk! 

I will offer up to five hours of free time per startup to help brainstorm ideas, provide a sounding board and discuss strategic approaches to challenges. We can meet remotely, at a coffee shop, or at a local pub, I’m flexible.   

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You’re probably thinking to yourself, who is this guy?! Hi, I’m Adam.  My experience includes technology sales for Future Shop, Apple, and Freedom Mobile, as well as founding companies in the e-commerce and entertainment spaces.  

 

For the last five years I’ve been working at a scale-up B2B SaaS company in Marketing, Product Management and now as Head of Product & Development.  I have helped to ideate a new integrated payment processing solution to complement existing business, lead the adoption of additional cross sell products, and validate/invalidate existing solutions into new target markets.  I’ve been deep in the day-to-day and made many mistakes along the way, and I will do my best to help you move quickly and avoid them if I can.

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In full disclosure, I’m not a professional coach, I haven’t done a lot of formal coaching before, but I love talking startups and would love to help you.  Best of all it’s free!   

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If you would like to book a one hour session, feel free to grab a time at https://calendly.com/adamwkropf/startup-coach 

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