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Blaine

Blaine

Founder Β· Permit Hound

"I don't want to walk through an uncleared minefield without someone who has walked it before."

Hamel Shah

Hamel Shah

Co-Founder Β· CarrotsAndCake

"GrowthMentor enables us to swiftly get a world-class expert to give us guidance on any marketing issue or…"

Lena Sesardic

Lena Sesardic

Product Manager

"Knowing I can always book a call to help me clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling in the world."

Minh

Minh

Solo Founder Β· SEOmatic

"I like to set my own strategies and then get help from experts to improve on them and check if I'm on the…"

Nicola Rubino

Nicola Rubino

Growth Marketing Consultant Β· nicorubino

"It gave me fast access to expert-level insights that I couldn't get from academic research or user surveys…"

Annie Chen

Annie Chen

Head of Marketing Β· DOWN Dating App

"Sometimes I'm stuck at one step and all I need is someone who can share experiences of what they did when…"

Carlos Terol

Carlos Terol

Co-Founder Β· Bagmaya

"I enjoy having pretty much instant access to a pool of worldwide, expert mentors who are keen to share their…"

Luka Karsten Breitig

Luka Karsten Breitig

Co-Founder Β· The Happy Beavers

"Imagine a world where everything you read was written by a subject-matter expert."

Flora Bui

Flora Bui

Co-Founder Β· Acie

"My favorite thing about GrowthMentor is how it allows me to expand my network globally in a very short time…"

Maria Ledentsova

Maria Ledentsova

Digital Marketing Manager Β· magier

"Whatever problem I have, there's a friendly and incredibly helpful mentor ready to help."

Kate Bojkov

Kate Bojkov

Head of Growth Β· EmbedSocial

"How quick and easy I can find somebody who had my problem and is willing to talk with me and openly share…"

Supriya Agarwal

Supriya Agarwal

Co-founder Β· BiosectRx

"Being able to connect with any expert across the globe at the click of a button. No network or previous…"

Anastasia Rubleva

Anastasia Rubleva

Head of Growth Β· Rapid Dev

"I love the ability to receive valuable feedback from mentors who have been in the industry for decades."

Andrew McBurney

Andrew McBurney

CEO & Co-founder Β· Review Robin

"You should cut out 99% of the things that you're thinking about."

Who it's for

Which one are you?

Six situations bring people to GrowthMentor more than anything else, each a specific problem they're facing alone.

Doing it all alone

You're the whole company, and every decision is yours.

Pricing, positioning, the cofounder talk you keep dodging. The same questions resurface every few weeks, because there is nobody around to settle them with you.

I used to feel alone with every decision. Now I'm not alone anymore, and that's a huge relief.
Vassia Sarantopoulou

Vassia Sarantopoulou Β· Solo Founder @ AntiLoneliness

Read Vassia's story

Common topics

  • Pricing & packaging
  • Positioning & ICP
  • The cofounder conversation
  • What to build next
  • Your first hire
  • Fundraise or bootstrap

Zero to one

You've got a working product and zero paying customers.

The product works, but the first paying customer is still hypothetical and the launch plan has five competing channels. Plenty of advice out there, all of it different.

With one 30-minute call, I can have a roadmap of exactly what I need to do.
Brandon Horvatić

Brandon Horvatić · Co-Founder @ Yes Chef Studio

Read Brandon's story

Common topics

  • First 10 customers
  • Finding your ICP
  • Launch channel strategy
  • Pricing the MVP
  • Cold outreach that works
  • Turning signups into users

Burning money on ads

You're spending more on ads and getting less back.

Spend keeps going up and results don't follow, and nobody can tell you which part is broken: the pixel, the creative, the landing page, or the agency.

It's a sanity check for my ideas. I know right away if they're worth pursuing.
Arash Ghaemi

Arash Ghaemi Β· Growth Marketer @ Galaxy Growth

Read Arash's story

Common topics

  • Ad account audit
  • Creative that converts
  • Landing-page leaks
  • Attribution & tracking
  • Vetting your agency
  • Scaling a winner

Growth gone flat

You've got users and revenue, but growth has stalled.

Thousands of sign-ups that don't convert, or customers who churn by month three. The product's fine. Something around it β€” activation, pricing, the funnel β€” is leaking.

Instead of long trial-and-error, I can pressure-test very specific decisions quickly and precisely.
Karina Karn

Karina Karn Β· Founder Β· independent

Read Karina's story

Common topics

  • Funnel diagnosis
  • Activation & onboarding
  • Churn & retention
  • Conversion-rate fixes
  • Pricing & trial length
  • Expansion revenue

Marketing team of one

You're the first marketer they've hired, with no one to learn from.

The founder handed you a chaotic list of everything marketing should fix, your name on every line. No senior marketer down the hall to sanity-check a thing.

Finding GrowthMentor played a big part in me taking this job, knowing I'd be the only marketer.
Tenicia van Aalten

Tenicia van Aalten Β· Growth Marketer @ AirHub

Read Tenicia's story

Common topics

  • 90-day priorities
  • What to ignore on purpose
  • Channels that compound
  • Reporting up to the founder
  • Your first campaigns
  • When to hire help

Career Transitions

You're changing careers and figuring out what's next.

Layoff, pivot, or a long-overdue jump: you're repackaging years of experience, unsure whether your background now reads as an asset or a liability.

Knowing I can always book a call to get clarity on what I'm doing is the best feeling.
Lena Sesardic

Lena Sesardic Β· Product Manager Β· independent

Read Lena's story

Common topics

  • Repositioning your experience
  • Consulting vs fractional vs role
  • Pricing your expertise
  • Telling your story
  • Finding your first clients
  • Negotiating the offer
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Mentors who've been exactly where you are.

Get Started

You're not crazy. This really is hard.

Whatever you come in with, a tactic or a tough decision, it helps to talk it through with someone who's been there.

Shannon Beckerleg

Founder @ Animanaut Creative

"All of the anxieties and stories I'd built up in my head, Paul eradicated in two sentences."

Edgar Brown

CEO & Co-Founder @ Engyne

"She graciously took the time during her lunch break to go super in-depth."

Susan Liu

Founder @ Gabby

"I left the session feeling super uplifted, empowered and with a clear direction on what I should do next."

A few of the 30,000+ founders who stopped doing it alone. 4.8β˜… across 30,247 reviews.

Here's how it works.

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AI matching

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Find my matches

Tell us what you're stuck with today. Matched in seconds.

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A session

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Live, one on one

30 min

Talk to someone who's done it. Thirty minutes, recorded.

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Inbox Β· 15 min later

Dani Hart

Dani Hart

Recording

You came in with

"Three pricing tiers, flat conversion on the middle one."

You left with

"Don't lower your B2B price under $400."

14:22 / 30:00

Jump to the moment

Keep the recording, summary, and takeaways. Yours.

And that's just one call. Here's a whole month.

One week it's one thing, the next it's something else entirely. Whatever comes next, it's kind of cool knowing there's always someone you can talk to about it.

Some weeks you book a few calls, some weeks none, and that's normal. Each time, you talk to whoever fits the problem in front of you.

Day2
Josh Boone

with Josh Boone Β· Packaging

Completed

What made you book this call?

"I've rewritten my homepage four times and it still sounds like everyone else. I'm stuck between three ICPs β€” can you help me figure out what we actually are?"

Left with

One ICP and a one-liner that lands. The other two parked in writing, on purpose.

2:46pm Β· the summary landed in your inbox

Day9
Miao Chen

with Miao Chen Β· Paid acquisition

Completed

What made you book this call?

"I've never run paid in my life and I have $1,500 to test with. Meta or Google first β€” and how do I not torch it?"

Left with

A three-week experiment plan: Meta only, three creatives, Google parked until the data says otherwise.

kept 3 takeaways from the call with Miao

Mon 11:45 Β· three mentor picks arrived, matched to your week

Day21
Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz

with Krzysztof Szyszkiewicz Β· Pricing

Completed

What made you book this call?

"Two prospects said yes without even flinching. There's no one around to tell me β€” am I priced way too low?"

Left with

28% under by the Van Westendorp math. Price up, first ten customers grandfathered.

Day27
Miao Chen

with Miao Chen Β· Paid acquisition

again Confirmed Β· Fri 2:00 PM

What made you book this call?

"Back with four weeks of Meta data. Clicks are fine, leads aren't. Where's the leak?"

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And here's the year that follows.

A year of never getting stuck. Hover a face for what each call was about.

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Always in your back pocket.

Whatever this week throws at you, someone here has already solved it and can jump on a call. Some weeks you'll book a few, some weeks none.

57calls

booked this year Β· $0 each

I can find a mentor for pretty much any challenge I'm facing.
Blaine

Blaine

Founder, Permit Hound

Read Blaine's story
38calls

booked this year Β· $0 each

Knowing I can always book a call to clarify what I'm doing is the best feeling.
Lena Sesardic

Lena Sesardic

Product Manager, Independent

Read Lena's story
23calls

booked this year Β· $0 each

I set my own strategy, then get an expert to check I'm on the right track.
Minh

Minh

Solo Founder, SEOmatic

Read Minh's story

A letter from the founder

Why this exists.

For years I ran growth on my own, making every call myself. A decade in, and still no one beside me who'd done it before to tell me when I was about to do something dumb. Knowing your craft cold doesn't stop you wanting someone to check your thinking.

Wanting a second opinion was never self-doubt. The people surest of themselves are usually the ones who should worry.

So I started hiring experts on Upwork for one thing: a thirty-minute call to pull my plan apart before I bet real money on it. Half an hour with someone who'd already done it beat every course and ultimate-guide blog post I'd ever paid for.

GrowthMentor is that, minus the awkward part. You tell us what you're stuck on, we point you to people who've solved it, you talk until you're not stuck.

Everyone needs someone who's been there. Now they're thirty minutes away.

The whole story β€” the manifesto I wrote in 2018

Foti Panagiotakopoulos

Foti Panagiotakopoulos

Founder, GrowthMentor

Join GrowthMentor

There's no such thing as a Yoda

Why one mentor doesn't cut it

No single person is an expert at everything, and that's ok! Talk to the right mentor depending on your exact situation.

Channel

The playbook for Meta isn't the playbook for SEO. Ask someone who lives inside the channel before you spend a month learning it the expensive way. The channels only get more crowded.

Miao ChenDaniil KopilevychMark PatchettVassilena ValchanovaYash Lohiya
Meta adsGoogle adsCold emailSEOLinkedIn

Stage

What works at ten customers stops working at a hundred. What got someone to $1M ARR won't get them to $10M. Match the mentor to where you are.

Yash LohiyaSean WeisbrotCraig ZingerlineJosh BooneMiao Chen
Pre-PMFFirst 10 customers$10K β†’ $1M ARRSeries A

Function

Pricing, positioning, your first sales hire: once-a-year decisions with year-long consequences. Better to make them with someone who's done it ten times.

Krzysztof SzyszkiewiczThomas SieglDani HartJohn OstrowskiVassilena Valchanova
PricingPositioningHiringRetentionActivation

Vetted for skill and good vibes. Under 5% get in. Apply to be a mentor β†’

Included with membership

And there's more than the call.

Everything that wraps around it, so the momentum doesn't stop when the call ends.

The board, community view
Help Requests Create Help Request
Community24My requests1Applied3
Popular
Mentorship Request
I keep discounting to close deals. How do I stop?
SalesGrowth marketing
Micah McGuireMicah McGuireHead of Growth @ GrowthMentor

3Apply
Introduction
Intro me to founders preparing a seed raise this year
Advice on funding
Sean WeisbrotSean WeisbrotInvestor, Master Networker, Podcast Host, Fundraising Agent

2Apply
Feedback
Direct feedback on a product positioning one-pager
Product marketing
Div ManickamDiv ManickamDirector Product Marketing

2Apply

Help Requests

Post the problem once. Mentors raise their hands, and you pick who to call.

How help requests work
The library, a few sessions in
Saved Insights5 saved
Daniel JohnsonDaniel JohnsonPPC budget sanity check
Hold paid spend flat until CAC payback is under six months, then scale in 20 percent steps.
Track paid CAC per channel, blended CAC was hiding that Meta pays back twice as fast as Google.
A workable CAC ceiling is a third of first-year revenue per customer, revisit it every quarter.
Peter Murphy LewisPeter Murphy LewisPositioning teardown before the relaunch
Put the price on the homepage and watch who still books calls.
Position against the funded competitor’s weakness, never against their feature list.

Your library

Every call leaves takeaways you keep, grouped by session. They add up, and they are there when the same problem comes back.

How takeaways work
A mentor-hosted rooftop meetup
Mentors and members talking at a GrowthMentor rooftop meetup

IRL

Mentor-hosted dinners, rooftops, the occasional brewery. Free for members.

See upcoming events

Also included: a dozen more things inside membership, and the members Slack.

30,247 five-star sessions

Here's what members say about us, unprompted.

Nuno Pereira

Nuno Pereira

Your plug-and-play growth partner | Generated $10M in pipeline for early-stage B2B startups πŸš€

GrowthMentor is the world’s best growth and marketing community. There, I said it. I know there are a lot of other amazing paid communities out there. But GrowthMentor gives me so much value that it’s crazy. I couldn’t tell you what else I would want from a paid community. Over the past year, I’ve talked with dozens of incredibly smart mentors about: βˆ™ Best practises for Twitter ads …more

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Corey Hubbard

Founder @ DreamHighr

"All of the mentors there have been very helpful, very easy to talk to, and very knowledgable. Set up a session and get the goods."

LA

Leanne de Araujo

GB Β· 33 reviews

Trustpilot

Loving Growth Mentor and the people

I'm using GrowthMentor after encouragement from one of my clients and so far I love it. I love the welcome I received from the founders and staff and have found the sessions I've had so far to be useful. The pricing is so much more transparent than what I would get if I was going for coaching, and I like that it's straightforward to access the mentor of my choosing. On top of this I've been able to get AI recordings of the sessions I've had.

Experienced January 30, 2026Unprompted review
Marius Vetrici PhD

Marius Vetrici PhD

πŸ‘‹Advisor for Digital Projects and Web Developer. Book a 1:1 meeting & let's bring your vision to life!

🧐 I’ve been recently evaluating the idea of creating an analytics and marketing attribution Saas. It was tough to talk to the right people, but then I found this and interviewed 6 people in a month! It’s called GrowthMentor and thanks to this platform, I had 1:1 meetings with some folks experienced at GTM strategies, attribution and measuring the cost per lead. But before I found this treasure, I had to roam a bit through the woods 🌳🌳🌳 …more

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Maria Ledentsova

Maria Ledentsova

Marketing @MagicDesign β–ΆοΈŽ Get your design tasks done in <48 hours with a design subscription | Notion Ambassador | Let's Connect!

There is life before GrowthMentor and life after GrowthMentor πŸ˜… Here’s how I prepare for my mentor calls (with Notion & Figma/FigJam)! πŸ‘‡ I can’t believe I had the chance to talk to over 15 Marketers and Founders already! ❀️ These people helped me overcome challenges, gave me so many tips and encouraged me to continue to learn and do my best work. But having calls is only one part of it. …more

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Tauras Sinkus

Founder @ Sinkus Studio

"I’ve had three sessions so far and I got the advice I was looking for or the inspiration I needed to continue going."

Geoffrey Bressan

Geoffrey Bressan

Fractional Marketing Leader & Advisor | 10+ years experience in B2B SaaS

When I started as a first-time marketing leader with a consequent budget and ambitious objectives to hit, I had no idea where to start: – Who do I need to hire? – How to set up an impactful marketing plan and deliver results? – What are the most important things to focus on first? – How to build credibility with management and the other departments? While I started looking for a way to get in touch with marketing experts …more

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Erin Tomlinson

Brand Advocate @ BeautyCounter

"If you want to get customers to your door, this is the way to do it. It’s quality advice that will lead you to the promised land for your business."

One membership. Every mentor.

The only thing to choose is how much you save. Pay monthly, or take the year at $50 a month instead of $150.

Take your first call. If it's not worth it, we'll refund you.

Cancel anytime Β· 14-day money-back

  • Unlimited 1-on-1 calls with operators who shipped your exact decision
  • Book direct on their calendar. No DMs, no scheduling tag
  • The recording, the takeaways, and a library that grows with every call
  • Async help when a 30-min call is more than the question needs

It's one flat price whether you book once a month or every week, so nothing stops you bringing the small stuff too. Need it for a team? Team pricing's here.

Is this actually for you?

Join GrowthMentor if

  • You've done the reading and you're still circling the same decision.
  • Real money or real months are attached to the thing you're stuck on.
  • You're the only person at your company doing your job.
  • You just stepped into a role you've never held: first head of marketing, first CTO, first time pitching.
  • You're about to spend serious money (an agency, a launch, a $20K campaign) and want someone who has spent it before to check the math.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a structured curriculum with homework. Take a course; good ones exist.
  • You want someone to do the work for you. That's an agency or a contractor.
  • You're shopping for a network or an audience. Calls are 1:1 and private, and that's the point.
  • You haven't tried anything yet. Do the cheap obvious things first, then come back when you're stuck on something specific.

No hard feelings either way.

Before you join

What people ask before their first call.

Your membership is one flat rate for unlimited 1:1 video calls with our whole network of 750+ vetted mentors. No per-call fees. About 85% of mentors are included with your membership, so you can book as many calls as you want, with as many different mentors as you want, on whatever you're working through.

You also get AI matching that points you to the right mentors for your specific situation, built-in video rooms with AI call summaries, and access to our community of 3,000+ members.

The way most people use it: 5 to 10 calls a month across a few different mentors, each one focused on a different problem. The more you use it, the more it does for you.

Often within the same week you join. The one thing to know: mentors book at least 48 hours out so they've got time to prep for your specific situation. Once you send a request, you'll usually hear back quickly, and you can have a session on the calendar in just a few days.

Easiest way is to let AI matching do the work. Describe what you're working on in plain language (the more specific, the better) and you'll get three mentors matched to your exact situation. You can also browse and filter by skills, industry, or availability.

And remember, you're not locking in forever. Pick whoever feels closest for your first call. It's a starting point, and you can go a totally different direction next time.

A lot of members do. Some meet a mentor they really click with and keep coming back, and we fully support that. It comes down to the relationship you build with that person, so an ongoing mentor grows out of a real fit rather than something that's promised up front.

And here's the best part: you're never limited to just one. The right expert for this week's challenge might be someone totally different next week, and your membership gives you all of them. Most members talk to a handful of mentors over time, picking the perfect person for whatever they're working on right now. It's like having a whole bench of people in your corner.

If you're looking for that one long-term mentor, here's a great way to find them: use GrowthMentor to meet a bunch first. Think of it like speed dating. Book a few calls, see who you click with, and build from there.

Yes. If you find a mentor you'd want to do hands-on work with, you're free to hire them. The one rule: mentors aren't allowed to pitch you on their services, so the calls stay focused on your problem, not their sales. But if you're the one who brings up a paid engagement, that's completely fine. So go for it.

That's completely normal, and you don't need the perfect question. The booking form walks you through it: what you're trying to decide, what you've already tried, and what a good outcome looks like. From there your mentor takes the lead.

A lot of the best calls start with someone just talking through the messy version out loud and getting to the real question together.

Specific is good. That's when these calls are at their best.

And here's something worth knowing: the best match usually isn't about your exact industry. It's about the actual challenge. The mentor who can help a DTC food founder most might be a Meta Ads specialist who's run dozens of similar accounts. Channel and skill expertise travels across industries. Describe your real situation in AI matching and you'll be surprised who comes up.

AI is genuinely great for a first pass, and a lot of our members use it before they book. Where a mentor comes in is the part AI can't do: someone who's actually lived your exact situation, can pressure-test your specific plan, and can tell you whether you're on the right track from real experience.

Think of GrowthMentor as the next step after you've talked to AI and read every thread you can find. It's the judgment call from someone who's been there.

Building fast is a real advantage, and AI makes it easier than ever. The question a mentor helps with is whether you're building the right thing in the first place.

Some of the most valuable calls on the platform are the ones where a mentor saves someone weeks (or thousands of dollars) by pointing out the move that won't work before they make it. Fast plus the right direction beats fast on its own.

If you use the built-in GrowthMentor Video Room, you'll get an AI-generated summary with your key takeaways. You can edit them and keep the ones you want to work on, or erase them from your view. It's a great way to keep an active to-do list from each call.

From there, the ball's in your court. You've got real takeaways to act on, so go do the work. And the next time you hit a wall, book a call with someone who knows that topic.

No catch. Here's the honest version.

Every mentor on the platform has the option to charge for their time. Most of them choose not to. About 85% are included with your membership, and they're here because they genuinely like it. Helping someone get unstuck feels good, and a lot of them remember what it was like to need that themselves.

There's also a real upside for them. Great reviews from members become social proof they can use for their own professional growth. And many get hired for fractional roles through our sister project, GrowthExpert.io, where companies come looking for exactly this kind of experienced operator.

So when a senior mentor spends 30 minutes with you, everyone wins. You get clarity, they get the reward of helping plus visibility that moves their career forward.

Yes. Team plans start at two seats and give everyone on your team their own unlimited access. You can add or swap people as your team changes, and there's a dashboard so you can see what's getting booked.

If you're the manager and want dashboard access without taking up a seat, that's something we can set up for you. Just reach out and we'll get it sorted.

Easy and self-serve. You can cancel anytime from your billing settings, and you'll keep full access through the end of the period you've already paid for.

New members also have a 14-day money-back guarantee: if you join and decide it's not for you, you're covered, as long as you haven't booked a session yet. Reach out to [email protected] and we'll take care of it.

Still have questions? See all FAQs β†’

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Four members posing with name tags at a meetup
GrowthMentor members at the SaaStock booth
GrowthMentor members at the Corktown Taphouse meetup