Hi, I'm Els Philipp 👋
» mentor, guiding you in finding your repeatable scalable business model
» tool maker, enabling early-stage startups to progress faster
» public voice, speaking with, for and behalf of founders to increase their odds
» '16- Obsessed with early-stage startup best practices, and connected to the (Dutch) startup ecosystem.
» 2 startup attempts;
✖️ '17-'19 buddy platform for freelancers: SparMatchMaker
'24- Startup building tool (SaaS): With SAM 🚀
» '21-24: Helping 12+ products to go to market. Startup consultant/venture builder at Off The Record (agency)
» '24: Talked with 100 startup founders to understand their needs. Helped 6 startups progress with their startups. Whilst developing tools for founders like them.
» Also: multiple year experience as highest performing B2B + B2C salesperson + Scrum master (enabling technical development) in a startup transitioning to scale-up.
Let me get excited about the theory, while you benefit from the progress it helps you make!
My practices are based on three core values:
Customer centric: focus on understanding and fulfilling the customers needs
Data informed: use facts and numbers to make forward thinking decisions
Lean: make real progress while using your time/resources wisely
🚀 Make more progress
with your early-stage startup
offers and services
Free perks like a mentor session, Notion template and discounts, as well as structural mentortracks to help you progess!
🎙️ Join panel or jury
As an active voice in the startup community, advocating and cheerleading for early-stage startups, I'm happy to join public panels, interviews, startup pitch events etc.
Challenging startups to:
Think 10x, disruptive, next level
Find a problem worth solving
Understand their customers
Build a version to learn quick
Find a fitting sustainable business model
Get sh*t done with the core team
Prioritize the right things
Move forward quick with few resources
Make data-informed decisions
Build something with love for our planet
Take care of themselves and their team
Contact me 👇
My guiding principle:
"Be curious about the problem you're solving.
Know more than anyone else.
Then solve it like nobody else does."
👩💻 Passionate about innovation, disruption and technology.
🤓 Never stop learning, new methdologies, technologies and tools.
💚 Excited to move forward with love for our planet.
👨👩👧 Proud wife, mom and kitesurfer from Zandvoort. 🌊
I decided I'm using my skillset where it's needed most: helping early-stage sustainable startups.
If we want to stop throwing our ecosystems out of balance 🌎, it's time to change our behavior.
We need:
🔥 New ways of doing things
🔥 Replacement products designed with their entire lifecycle in mind
🔥 To advance as a society, not by current measures of economic growth, but by improving our lives with comfort, equality, health, love, abundance, nature, and joy.
All this screams innovation. 💡
I believe we need smart people who are driven to make that change happen. Founders with a vision, ready to disrupt our current status quo. Forget the rules and start doing. Figure it out. They think big, and their products have enormous potential, both in their impact on the world and society as well as in financial benefits for those who make it happen. 👩🎤
As a mentor, founder of WithSAM.ai, and general cheerleader and advocate for early-stage startups, I'm doing everything I can to get early-stage startups founded with love for the planet. 🫡