From Vision to V1: Are you a first-time B2B SaaS Founder looking to transform your idea into a successful business? At Sidecar, you can turn your vision into a strategic blueprint, navigate the complexities of the SaaS landscape, and evolve into an inspired business leader.
You've read all the blogs, taken advice from countless sources, and tried multiple strategies—but nothing seems to fit your specific SaaS journey. With so many tools and frameworks, how do you know what's right for you right now?
Solution: At Sidecar, I help you cut through the noise and focus on the strategies that matter for your stage of growth. Instead of juggling every tool at once, you’ll get the right one at the right time—so you can move forward with clarity and confidence.
Every day, you're managing customer issues, putting out fires, and chasing revenue. You're keeping your SaaS business afloat, but you're tangled in the day-to-day grind—making it impossible to focus on real growth.
Solution: I'll help you break free from the operational weeds so you can work on your business, not just in it. Whether it's refining your monetization strategy, streamlining operations, or shifting your role as a founder, I'll guide you to solid ground.
You have a solid product, a clear vision, and a growing user base. But somehow, things aren't running smoothly—sales cycles are slow, marketing isn't landing, or your team is struggling to execute. Something is missing.
Solution: I help SaaS founders find and fix the missing link in their business—whether it's positioning, pricing, team alignment, or strategy execution. Let's complete the system so everything works together seamlessly.
Here are tactics and mechanics I wish I had when I started out as a first-time B2B SaaS Founder.
Embarking on your journey and unsure which path to take? At Sidecar, we guide you through mindset, mechanics, and momentum, empowering you to own your role and focus on essential Tech Founder / CTO responsibilities. If you're not laying down the tracks for your company's train, who is, and where is it heading?
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First time CTOs and Tech Founders and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and Non-Tech Founders that need Tech Leadership guidance ro fractional CTO help while they find a technical co-founder or CTO/VP Eng/Head of Tech.
In 2 words? Getting unstuck. In one word? Direction.
Going in where they are and helping them through the muck and out of the weeds. Could be in their mind, or in their daily grind. It could be communicating with their CEO/C-level peers or their team. Until I have a strategy session with them, it's impractical to predict.
Wholistically, I provide them with a map of what's to come, a mindset of who to become, mechanics of what to do and the momentum on how to move forward.
Practically, once I know where they are and where they need to go next, I help them come up with a strategy based on my own experience and insights and those I've gathered in my coaching years.
Mostly first-time tech founders and CTOs located in Canada and the US. Startups like Stay22.com, B-Temia.com, Funnelytics.io among others. Also, first time non-tech founders and their teams like HappyBean.ca, and even solopreneurs of industry small businesses like AIM-BI.com.
It varies from client to client. Without getting into private conversations and contract specifics, here are some highlights:
1) Providing a roadmap for the work ahead in phases, and who to hire to do the work to help them pull back to focus on strategy and sales. This allowed one particular client to hire a lead dev, lead them into the work needed, and gain the time to pre-sell new clients for the new module being developed. None of which was possible when they were stuck coding the solution themselves. They were stuck in the weeds.
2) Helping them prepare for pitching to investors, applying for funding and providing guidance for co-founder agreements and responsibilities. This allowed a particular client to take over certain responsibilities they had delegated that caused confusion roles and the vision was splintered. Now the CEO does the pitching and the CTO is roadmapping the product with a clear market to validate instead of debating who does what and who the market target is.
3) Helping them prepare a go-to-market and working through difficult objectives from the CEO as the market had changed. They were able to ask clarifying questions on what was required and accelerate prototyping to get to market on time by removing features. That provided confidence to the CTO's engineering team who stopped debating and started building.
My brand promise
"My approach, and reason for my sidecar branding, is to focus on the relationship. That's the most human thing we have. As a deep technical thinker, it's defacto to isolate. You can go faster alone, but to go farther, you need to go together, bringing others into your world and being in theirs. That breaks way from the hardskills and into heartskills. To a strongly technical person can be very foreign. That's why I want to spend time with these leaders who are literally building our future."
It starts with a conversation in which I can learn more about where you are, where you need to go and who you need to become.
You'll gain a plan of action to forge ahead with confidence. It's a no brainer.
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