Startups
To thrive as a startup, it’s not enough to just offer a new service, even if it’s in-demand. It’s essential to be different and inspiring, indispensable and easy to understand, user-friendly and memorable. Your idea may be one among many, but HOW you present it is the key to success.
Don’t just let your target audience make up their mind about your offering. Sales-proof it, and stop booking demos, which go nowhere. Your pitch deck, business plan, and other materials should do the heavy lifting for you.
Don’t settle for generic and automated presentations, even if GenAI helped. Stand out with a personalized approach from an expert in startup success.
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Dmitriy Goldin brings nearly 3 decades of experience of offering a personalized approach with startups, from helping new ventures get started, operational assistance, providing staffing solutions, and bridging the gap between the ‘idea people’ and investors.
From the early days of ensuring the early success of Globe.com – the first ‘.com’ success story of going public, seeing its valuation propel to unheard of for the time heights; building up firms like Zingy – which drastically changed the way we view mobile phones, grew to become a $200 million business, and sold to a major mobile Japanese conglomerate; helping OnDeck Capital grow and flourish with their JPMorgan 3-year partnership in offering online loans to small businesses, till it was acquired by Enova International to form a $5 billion portfolio with 7 million customers; and working with an AdTech leader, adMarketplace in their early stages to facilitate technology growth to become a top choice for 60% of Google top spenders, Dmitriy has the unique experience of helping new ventures succeed.
In recent years, Dmitriy Goldin helped a range of startups, from leisure to Personal Finance firms, as media, Real Estate and insurance new beginnings all sought Dmitriy’s help in various stages of development. Some of them went public, some got acquired by larger firms, some remained independent successful private companies.
Here are some examples:
- Company A
Industry: Finance
Product: Personal Finance Management App
Services provided: Upscaling the app for student distribution;
scaling technology stack with test automation, monitoring, and optimization through DevOps.
Result: Northeast community college subscription model; improved response time, causing a sale to be integrated into an enterprise model. - Company B
Industry: Real Estate
Product: Property Management App
Services provided: Improve presentation and features.
Result: Turning 20% of hibernated ‘interested parties’ into clients.
- Company C
Industry: E-commerce
Product: Catalog and Order Management App
Services provided: Established distribution/reseller partnership.
Result: Double client base, leading to sale to a global e-commerce firm.
- Company D
Industry: AdTech
Product: Buyer/Seller partnership OMS
Services provided: Established direct line of communication between parties, eliminating middlemen, saving 30% on fees.
Result: Became profitable, turned down additional funding round, doubled valuation.
- Company E
Industry: Healthcare
Product: AI-powered Health Informatics service
Services provided: Upgraded EHR, separating functions to ensure HIPPA compliance.
Result: Implementation in 4 new hospitals.
Whether you have a CEO, a CTO, and a ready sales team, and are ready to make an instant impact on your industry; or it’s just you and your ready-to-go ideas, while trying to be cost-conscious, Dmitriy is here to help.
Here are some of the services offered to help you navigate fruitful new beginnings or continue flourishing stories.
Startup Services
General Advisory
- 300 per hour or project-based
Accelerate your startup’s growth with our results-driven advisory services. Our experienced advisors craft tailored strategies, identify critical connections, and help you overcome challenges to achieve real-world success.
Initial Business Plan
- 2,500-5,000
Marketable name; product viability/competitive advantage; target audience; viability of service/product; operational structure; compliance/licenses/permits; partnerships; infrastructure; staff; technology; costs; KPIs; agreements/NDAs; governance; and fundraising efforts’ structure; Intellectual Property; online presence; marketing.
Pitch Deck
- 1,250-2,500
Sales-proof your pitch deck, not just create an advertisement for your offering. Tell potential investors and customers why they should be interested.
Company structure; growth progression; branding; P&L; visuals.
Industry Research Report
- 1,250-2,500
Competitors; trends; partnerships; customer base.
Build a Business Development/Sales team
- contact to discuss
Don’t hire one BD/Sales person at a time with high comp expectations and questionable results. Build your own Business Development/Partnerships team.
My proven methodology for Business Development in any economic conditions generated hundreds of millions of dollars for startups over the last 25+ years, bringing in enterprise-level clients, countless consumers, and establishing prosperous channel relationships for startups in social media, mobile, AdTech, healthcare, finance, and logistics. Having developed high-level Business development professionals from entry level hires, and enabling established BD professionals to shine, I offer a unique approach to growth in any economy, with a special focus on economically challenging climate of several recessions and other market downturns, pandemic, and today’s high interest rate credit crunch-driven commercial landscape.
Includes all training materials, models, and first steps assistance, as well as team management in increment periods or longer-term.