Mentor-Coaching

Building a company repeatedly places you in situations with no obvious answer. The quality of your decisions depends not just on what you know, but on how you think, lead, and perform under uncertainty. A personalized 1:1 process designed to navigate these moments with greater clarity, self-awareness, and strategic perspective.

Choose How You Want to Be Challenged

Three modes, you decide

Neither every founder nor every situation requires the same approach. Throughout the process, you move flexibly between three modes.

Coaching

I ask, you answer.

Through powerful questioning, structured reflection, and challenge, we explore the situation from multiple perspectives so you arrive at your own conclusions. The goal is not to tell you what to do, but to elevate the quality of your own thinking.

Mentoring

We bring my experience to the conversation.

When relevant, I share perspectives, frameworks, pattern recognition, and lessons drawn from years in venture capital, company building, investing, fundraising, and deal negotiation.

Mentor-Coaching

The best of both worlds.

We move dynamically between coaching and mentoring: creating space for you to develop your own answers while integrating challenge and real-world experience where it adds value. You remain the decision-maker. Always.

Three Core Focus Areas

Where we focus

01

Leadership

Building a company is ultimately about leading people—and leading yourself. We work on decision-making, co-founder dynamics, difficult conversations, negotiation, conflict resolution, prioritization, accountability, and the transition from founder to organizational leader.

02

Cross-Border Collaboration

Ventures increasingly operate across countries, cultures, investors, and ecosystems. It is not enough to understand different markets: you must communicate, negotiate, build trust, and align stakeholders who approach the same problem from fundamentally different backgrounds.

03

High-Performance Mindset

Entrepreneurship requires operating repeatedly in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments. This is not motivational coaching: it is the continuous process of identifying and refining the behaviors, assumptions, and decision patterns that dictate how you perform.

From Pre-Seed to Scale

No specific stage required

The common denominator is not the company's stage: it is the founder's willingness to be challenged and continuously grow.

Pre-Seed

Founder mindset, thesis validation, team formation, MVP strategy, and investment readiness.

Seed

Fundraising, early traction, business model iteration, hiring, prioritization, and founder leadership.

Series A & Growth

Organizational leadership, stakeholder management, strategic decision-making, international collaboration, and scaling complexity.

Experienced Founders

New initiatives, investment decisions, strategic alliances, governance, negotiations, and personal or strategic inflection points.

The Process

Starts by understanding where you are

Book Your Discovery Call

Book your 30-minute session online. Upon confirmation, you receive a brief questionnaire to capture your context, venture, challenges, and what you aim to address.

Preparation

I review your questionnaire prior to our meeting. The initial conversation does not start from scratch: it is built specifically around what matters most.

Discovery Session

During the 30 minutes, we explore where you are today, what you want to achieve, and which patterns may be impacting your performance. I outline how the process works and we determine mutual fit.

Your Custom Plan

There is no one-size-fits-all package. If there is a clear opportunity, I propose a tailored plan structured around your objectives, circumstances, and cadence. The Discovery fee is 100% credited toward the engagement.

Who Accompanies You

Pattern recognition without overriding your decisions

Our team brings a decade of hands-on experience across entrepreneurship, venture capital, company building, private investment, and cross-border collaboration. That experience does not mean having the answers to your specific problems: it means having observed, over years, how founders, investors, and teams make decisions—both when they succeed and when they fail. We also draw upon an active network of over 50 independent PhD specialists across Colombia, Spain, Germany, and the United States. Mentor-coaching brings that pattern recognition into the room when you want it, without appropriating decisions that are fundamentally yours.

+5,500Opportunities Analyzed
+450Founders Advised
+270Transactions Closed
+20Ventures Built from 0 to €500K ARR
Investment

Pricing

Discovery Call
$175 USD · 30 min

Includes pre-call questionnaire and preparation. 100% credited toward your plan.

Mentor-Coaching
$350 USD / hr

High-Performance Leadership & Collaboration Coaching.

Customized engagement plans are defined following the Discovery Call based on objectives and meeting frequency.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Coaching or mentoring?

Both, and you choose the blend at any moment. In coaching mode, I ask questions to help you think better; in mentoring mode, I share real-world experience and frameworks where they add value. Mentor-coaching moves dynamically between both. In all scenarios, final decisions remain yours.

Do I need to be at a specific company stage?

No. I work with founders ranging from pre-seed to seasoned entrepreneurs facing critical inflection points. The common thread is not the company's stage, but your willingness to be challenged and continuously refine yourself as a founder and leader.

How does the process begin?

With a paid 30-minute Discovery Call. I do not offer standardized packages: every engagement begins by understanding where you currently stand, rather than assuming where you should go. From there, I propose a tailored plan only if there is a clear strategic fit.

Is the Discovery Call fee credited?

Yes. If you choose to proceed with the proposed plan, the full fee of your Discovery Call is credited toward your engagement package. It serves as the initial step in the process, not an extra expense. There is no obligation to continue afterward.

The Process

There is no predefined package. We begin by understanding where you are, not by assuming where you ought to go.

Let's Talk

Start with a Discovery Call

You don't need to know what your plan should look like before we meet: that is exactly what the Discovery Call is designed to define. 30 minutes · $175 USD · 100% credited.

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