I am passionate about entrepreneurship and giving back to community.
Startup Community initiatives
I am active member of Estonian startup ecosystem #EstonianFounders for last 20 years.- Co-Founder & President 2020-2021 of Estonian Founders Society with 200+ founders
- Monthly meetups, active Slack and developing startup ecosystem/legislations
- Co-Founder of Garage48 - organizing 48h hackathons in 25 countries in Europe & beyond
- Turn your idea into prototype in just 48h by meeting designers, programmers etc.
- Curator of Estonian Startups Funding Spreadsheet (2006-today)
- Curator of Estonian Startups Headcount Spreadsheet (2015-2020)
- I was a member of European Innovation Council (EIC) Advisory Board (2019-2021)
Mentoring Young Entrepreneurs
I am passionate mentor of new founders on their business ideas. BUT, before approaching me, please make sure you have done your homework (1 pager brief about your project):- What is your business idea? Why are you passionate about this specific idea?
- Please Google about potential competition and do market research?
- Why should people buy your product? Your unique value proposition?
- What resources you need to build your idea? Team & Roles? Funding? Anything else?
- How do you plan to make money? Business model, costs & margins, unit economics?
- How do you go to market - Sales and Marketing channels? CAC vs LTV?
- Which are your current TOP3 challenges? How could I help you exactly?