Bram Kanstein
I help founders de-risk startup ideas and get ready for growth๐ 10 years experience | 5 exits and 25+ failures
Bram is an awesome mentor. He has a wealth of knowledge and he is willing to help. He listened to all of our problems and provided great advice. We felt like we were better equipped to sort out the issues in our business after the call with Bram.
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Bram is an excellent source of knowledge and insights. He is also really fun to talk to, super kind, and positive. He is a good listener and gave me excellent, down-to-earth advice. I highly recommend reaching out to Bram to validate your business ideas and more. In fact, I plan on reaching out to him again soon.
Patient, kind, to the point, & very insightful! Bram was able to summarize my pain points within a single session and present them to me through just a few questions to answer. Now I am using those questions to guide my growth & focus and it is really helping! Definitely look forward to connecting with him again in the near future!
Bio
Hi๐ I am Bram Kanstein and ๐ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฝ ๐ณ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ-๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ธ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฝ ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ด๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ต ๐ As an early-stage startup expert and founder coach with 10 years of experience, I have seen 2000+ startups launch and have worked with dozens of startups and corporate innovation teams on developing, launching, and growing new businesses. I've also built and sold five of my own products (and failed at 25+ ideas). Most notable is Startup Stash, a curated directory of resources and tools for startups that's been used by 1M+ people. My work has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur.com, and Business Insider. And I have been privileged to work with and advise startups at several accelerators and incubators like Seedcamp London, Techstars London, Barclays Accelerator London, Startup Wise Guys Accelerator Tallinn, and the Telenet Kickstart Accelerator in Antwerp. I absolutely love to help (and challenge!) people in the early stages of their startup and business ideas. What I bring to the table is an honest, unbiased, and outside perspective to help you de-risk your ideas and move forward with your startup. We can work on and discuss: ๐ง Idea mindset ๐ Customer Discovery ๐ฏ Idea validation & Building a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) ๐งฒ Go-to-market & Growth strategy ๐ธ Business Model Creation & Validation If you are looking for a professional and enthusiastic partner to challenge and guide you in a sustainable way toward success, I'd love to work with you!
Expertise
Go to market strategy
Worked with dozens of founders and teams on their go-to-market strategy, focusing on launching with the right customers, messaging, and channels in mind.
Growth marketing
Worked with dozens of founders and teams on their growth strategies. Especially companies who got to a certain point by hustling (what everyone does in the beginning), but then had challenges of translating learning from this early stage to the next.
Idea validation
I have a lot of experience with the validation of my own ideas, my college thesis about Lean Startup, consulting for startups and corporations and teaching https://nocodemvp.com + helping early-stage entrepreneurs with my framework https://themvpcanvas.com.
Mindset coaching
I am a certified coach and have worked with lots of (aspiring) entrepreneurs on their mindset as they encounter the challenges (and opportunities) of their business. You can view some of their testimonials here: https://kanstein.co/testimonials.
No-code
I have built and sold 5 no-code products. One was called Startup Stash, a curated directory of resources and tools for startups, which is the most upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt.
Product launches
I have launched the most upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt and have advised lots of founders on how to launch their products. You can read more here: medium.com/startup-grind/how-i-launched-the-2-most-upvoted-product-of-all-time-on-product-hunt-f3772fb20ad8
Productized services
I ran a growth marketing agency where we sold a "Growth Audit" as a productized service. I am currently working on a new productized service myself which revolves around startup validation.
Toolkit
Zapier
10 years of experienceZapier is a core part of my online course https://nocodemvp.com and I have spent LOTS of hours building my custom workflows for the products that I created.