Product, Strategy, GTM, and Growth Ops
My roles forced me to wear many hats, but my responsibilities have always involved building products, growing revenue, and keeping customers happy! Contact me if you have any questions.
2010-2011 - Generalist
The Nerditorium
A micro-budget incubator where I worked on various tech projects including People in Motion, Podly, and a mobile intervalometer.
Tech Incubator
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2011-2012 - Co-founder/coo
Pinfluence
Co-founded a B2B SaaS used by brands like Best Buy, Conde Nast Group, and Victoria's Secret to grow their Pinterest profiles.
Adtech SaaS
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2012 - 2014 - founding team
OrionCKB
Part of the founding team of a performance marketing agency for large brands, acquired by EliteSEM.
Adtech SaaS
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2010 - 2015 - co-founder/ceo
Spartups Incubator
Grew a meetup group into an incubation center & accelerator with support from San Jose State University and the city of SJ.
Incubator & Accelerator
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2014 - 2015 - dir. of product
Smashon
Part of the founding team of a seed-funded B2B2C health & wellness app used by Genentech, Safeway, and Whole Foods.
Health & Wellness SaaS
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2014 - 2015 - co-founder/coo
getCompass.co
Co-founded a competitive intelligence tool to help digital marketers write better ads, like WhatRunsWhere but for social ads.
Adtech SaaS
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2014 - 2015 - community lead
F50.io
Community consultant for SVE, growing the meetup to 22k members and hosted tech events around the Bay Area.
Founder Community
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2016 - 2020 - co-founder/ceo
10xC Accelerator
Co-founded a startup accelerator for early-stage startups in Asia partnered with AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Google, and more.
Accelerator & Seed Fund
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2016 - 2020 - founding team/coo
Planet N Group
Part of the founding team of a pre-seed & seed venture capital fund focused in Asia managing 42 investments.
Venture Capital Firm
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2021 - 2022 - founding team/coo
Delta Leaf Labs
Part of the founding team of a cannabis biotech lab that produced sex/gender, viroid, and potency tests for the average grower. We made our own kits, sold globally via our e-commerce store, and analyzed seeds in our lab in Santa Barbara, CA. Launched the Cannabis Genome DAO aiming to democratize access to cannabis science.
D2C Biotech for Cannabis Growers
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2020 - PRESENT - co-founder
StartupStudios.co
This started as a consulting firm providing Founders with product, strategy, GTM, and growth operations support before I met my co-founder Raj and pivoted to a marketplace connecting Founders with early-stage talent & advisors.
Community & Podcast for Founders
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2022 - present - vp, product
Cresance
Part of the founding team for Cresance, building AI that autonomously makes your cloud deployments less expensive with usage insights and recommendations for more efficiency. Cresance is an Alchemist Accelerator & StartX (Stanford) company.
B2B SaaS for Cloud Efficiency
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2023 - PRESENT - founding team
Horizon Labs
My friends have been co-founders & CTOs of early-stage startups at Y-Combinator. We started Horizon Labs to focus on engineering and product development for founders who need experienced on-shore and off-shore developers. I am proudly the least technical person on the team and responsible for customer success.
Devshop / Product Development Firm
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I love working with startups & founders
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saif@startupstudios.co