Here are the 9 Growth Mentors of August

1. Badal Pandey

Describe yourself

I’m a Growth Marketer, Working with 7 & 8 Figure D2C brands & helping them with their Paid Ads, Creative Strategy & Overall growth Strategy. Over past few years I’ve learned a lot, Like What works & doesn’t work in Paid Social & to grow a D2C brand.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I’ve failed a lot of times in the past & when I look back there were just a minute things If I could have done right, I would have been in a better position. If there was someone who could have guide me a little than some of my startup would have more successful. So I thing Growth Mentor is great lace to guide people who are on their early stage of journey to grow in a better way & not make those mistakes.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Constant Testing, voracious learning, always seeking to improve in results in some… with a happy face.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Paid Social. I’ve spent over 5M$ in paid social over past few years, So I know ins & outs of it.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Always learning & testing what makes customers tick and identifying unique buying triggers that break down barriers to for them to purchase any product… I have used unique triggers in a variety of situations to significantly improve the Purchases & ROAS of the Brands.

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2. Claire Schmitt

Describe yourself

Hi, I’m Claire. I’m a self-proclaimed data nerd, who found my way into Growth on accident – but I couldn’t be more excited to be here now. I love running tests, optimizing everything, & automating as much as I can.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I love paying it forward and am interested in helping others grow their skillsets, and I know that mentoring would also be great for my own growth as I’d constantly need to clarify my thoughts in new ways, respond to varying viewpoints, and problem-solve on the fly.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Simply, always be learning. You may be an expert, but there always exists something more to be discovered, expanded upon, or transformed.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Customer activation & lifecycle marketing.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

I love low-code or no-code hacks – I set up an “abandon cart” email for our product using SQL, Zapier, & Hubspot, and saw a 20% improvement in customer activation.

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3. Gabor Veszpremi

Describe yourself

My passion is leading people and organisations through change. I supported organisations through strategy changes, mergers and acquisitions and scale-ups in getting their people strategy in line with the business. I have mentored leaders to improve their empathy and inspire, guide their teams, at the same time I can get hands-on to solve practical HR problems in pragmatic ways if needed.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I love to share my experience and support others to grow. My passion is solving problems!

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Growth mindset means to me, to learn from every challenge I face. Every mentoring discussion is an opportunity for me to learn new people, mindsets, ways of thinking – and getting on the same wavelength, support them to discover solutions. I love to try and fail fast, and happy to do something new, as those experiences enrich me as a person and professional.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

How to get people on board with the changes, growth of a company, how to inspire and enable them to be part of the Journey.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Many problems to team dysfunctions have their root-cause in the behaviour of the leader of the team. With deep empathy, honest and professional feedback, and an authentic wish to help, I have been successful to unblock teams to perform at their best.

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4. John Ozuysal

Describe yourself

Hey, I am John, I am a former investment banker and fitness model turned into a startup guy. I am currently Head of Growth in OptiMonk, a conversion optimization tool for e-commerce companies. To this day I built and scaled content marketing-focused growth teams, and I am ready to share all my experiences with the community.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I like hearing about other people’s challenges and help them to overcome them.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Content marketing, because this is my passion and I would still do content marketing even If did not have to work at all. This is how much I like this subject.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

A growth mindset is all about running many experiments until you find the one channel that works for you. You should embrace the fact that you will be zigging when others are zagging.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

“At UserGuiding, we increased the organic traffic by 10x in 10 months, but conversions did not follow this increase. I decided to monitor the heatmap on blog posts to see where are the areas that people are hoovering over the most.

We developed hyper-relevant CTA’s for each blog post based on the context of the article and placed those CTA’s on the most preferable locations based on the heatmap data. The result? Conversions started to pick up along with the organic traffic”.

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5. Michael Townsend

Describe yourself

I am the founder of Otter Labs, and host of Around The Coin podcast (250+ episodes, 8 years). Previously, I’ve raised $24M for 3 startups, sold 3, and have coached dozens of founders (fundraising, BD strategy, recruiting).

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I enjoy helping startup founders succeed!

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Growth is finding the non-obvious ways of attracting attention of exactly right people at the right time.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Fundraising would have to be it, I’ve helped dozens of founders raise money, and enjoy the challenge.

Describe an out-of-the-box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

In my last startup we connected caregivers with families (uber for home care), and we opened offices next to all the nursing schools, effectively buying up supply…

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6. Michał Suski

Describe yourself

Hey, I am Michał Suski, SEO expert and SaaS startup co-founder in the same field. I am passionate about creating content that ranks in Google and making sure it is a streamlined and efficient process. I help agencies and business owners implement this strategy. Besides educating the community I build the tool that addresses the needs of content people. After hosting hundreds of 1:1’s and dozens of webinars I am confident I can help you.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I want to give back to the community that I learned a lot from.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

A growth mindset means that you can change plans accordingly to what has the biggest impact on your goals.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Creating a content strategy that’s in synergy with SEO.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Knowing which keywords you can rank together by the same piece of content is either a gut feeling or a tedious and long-lasting process.

Keywords and SERPs database are Terabytes of data.

What if we could use basic machine learning and cluster these keywords based on how Google ranks them? It took us a few days from a rough sketch to working prototype that was mind-blowing and brought keyword research to a new level. Now it is the most advanced and accurate standard in the field. It cuts Content Strategy creation from days to minutes.

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7. Parikshit Joshi

Describe yourself

I have 7 years of experience in helping B2B and B2C organizations scale their marketing and growth programs to millions of customers. I love helping organizations discover their true growth potential, setup the right growth team and scale predictably in unknown territories.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

I have been fortunate enough to scale two different types of companies (B2B and B2C) from <$1M ARR to > $10M ARR in a very short amount of time. My experience of building compounding growth loops and scaling marketing channels to millions of customers would bring a lot of value to people who seek this information.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Growth mindset to me is about leveraging the habit of data driven experimentation that help establish compounding viral growth loops.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

SaaS growth – because it fascinates me every-time I work on it.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Established entire product growth model and a roadmap(that was successful!) for an organization that just started out and didn’t even had a monetization strategy. Aligning product friction with marketing channel friction during the interval without compromising user growth was a pretty out of the box solution.

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8. Paul Boudet

Describe yourself

Bonjour I’m Paul, currently co-founder/CEO of Meetric.app and founder of Urban-Hideout.com. I help startups from the founding stage to Series B grow as fast as they can. I’ve been doing growth for 10 years across San Francisco, NYC, Paris, London and Sydney.

In just one sentence, why do you want to become a growth mentor?

A friend of mine spoke to a few coaches on Growthmentor.com – he was telling me about his experience and told me I have the right profile to potentially be a coach and that I should check it out.

I did a bit of research on growth mentor since and I quite like it, specifically:

1.  your people-first approach.
2. you’re not being too ‘salesy’ (in a good way).
3. the high calibre of your coaches.
4. your flexible pricing model.

I want to become a growth mentor because I love growth, love people, want to give back, get excited by the success of others that I helped. I was a growth consultant previously and I’ve been looking for the opportunity to get back into it while balancing my busy schedule of also being a startup founder and CEO.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

To me, a growth mindset is about always finding new ways to grow.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

Customer/User Acquisition.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Here’s one on SEO: within a few months of executing my content strategy for Meetric.app, I started to see the 80–20 rule in action: 20% of the Meetric blog content was driving 80% of the organic traffic. So I looked at the blog posts driving the 20% and created alternative versions. For example, the post ’20 funny backgrounds for Zoom’ started to drive tons of traffic, so I duplicated it into ’20 funny backgrounds for Google Meet’. This took me only 5 minutes and this extra post is now bringing another thousand visitors per month.

This is from a recent article I wrote on how we grew organic traffic by 1,000% in 6 months: https://ph-boudet.medium.com/how-we-grew-organic-traffic-1-000-in-6-months-89a2defc8714

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9. Pave Sturman

Describe yourself

Hey, I’m Pave – a Senior Growth Marketing Manager at Photomath. I worked in growth marketing for the last 5+ years, mainly building performance marketing systems for user acquisition, activation and retention. Besides my full-time jobs, I also did some consulting on the side, as well as build small projects.

In just one sentence, please tell us why you want to become a growth mentor?

I enjoy sharing my knowledge and expertise, and I like meeting new people and learning from them as well.

In your words, what does a growth mindset mean to you?

Simply put, a growth mindset for me is a default state of curiosity, accompanied by continuous learning.

If you could mentor a startup on one topic, what would it be?

User acquisition and growth marketing.

Describe an out of the box solution to a complex problem that made you proud of yourself?

Problem: The percentage of clients who used our mobile app to track their credit card expenses was very low (<20% of users).

Goal: Increase mobile app usage by existing clients. Solution: I dove deep into the credit card usage of all our clients – how often do they use the card, what kind of purchases are they making, what’s the balance on their credit card etc. Manually extracted the data and created several customer segments, as well as developed marketing strategy for targeting each of those segments (both online & offline).

Results: The mobile app usage increased to 32% of existing clients – an increase of 60% in just 2 months.

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Interested in becoming a growth mentor?

What we’re looking for:

• Growth marketers, product managers, and designers, with extraordinary track-records of success
• Inspirational founders that have “been there and done that.”
• Friendly people that take joy in helping other people.
• At least 5 years of demonstrable experience working in growth.
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