Master Pitch & Presentation, Investor Strategy and Prep Coach
Managing Partner at Volition Serial Entrepreneur Board Member Fundraiser MC and Public Speaker Father of 3 Business Instructor at Langara College Business Instructor at Tamwood College and Global Startup School
I have been an advisor, entrepreneur, and investor in the Vancouver startup scene for the past 15 years. As a result, I have a strong network in the community and have gained extensive experience in capital raising, translating ‘investor-speak’, and understanding first-hand what can make or break a company.
I have a successful track record in scaling companies, building strong teams, negotiating deals and putting investors' money to work, and love leveraging my experience to help other startup founders achieve success in their business and fundraising goals.
💻 Virtual | 🤙 In person
Master Pitch & Presentation, Investor Strategy and Prep Coach
Managing Partner at Volition Serial Entrepreneur Board Member Fundraiser MC and Public Speaker Father of 3 Business Instructor at Langara College Business Instructor at Tamwood College and Global Startup School
I have been an advisor, entrepreneur, and investor in the Vancouver startup scene for the past 15 years. As a result, I have a strong network in the community and have gained extensive experience in capital raising, translating ‘investor-speak’, and understanding first-hand what can make or break a company.
I have a successful track record in scaling companies, building strong teams, negotiating deals and putting investors' money to work, and love leveraging my experience to help other startup founders achieve success in their business and fundraising goals.
💻 Virtual | 🤙 In person
I’m a serial entrepreneur with almost 20 years experience. I love to teach and am truly passionate about knowledge-sharing and helping fellow entrepreneurs of all ages and stages of growth.
I have a knack for breaking things down and looking at them objectively. This allows me to give a valuable perspective, critical feedback, and executable advice. My knowledge of how investors think, and what they’re looking for in great companies, pitches, and presentations helps me to provide actionable insights while optimizing time, energy and bandwidth for the entrepreneurs I have the honour of working with.
I am also an Instructor at Langara College, Tamwood College, Global Startup School, and SUCCESS and love working with the next generation of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs on developing their business and entrpreneurship skills.
Startup Client:
This is Artem Buzulan. His volition is building a retail tech company called Instorize that lets you shop from your favourite local retail stores on an Amazon-like marketplace, with real-time price comparisons and inventory, and next day fulfillment.
Excited to have done nine sessions so far, reviewing investor, launch and growth strategy, and practicing his 90 second pitch and presentation, that we created together.
#entrepreneurship #startuplife #startups #businessstrategy
Startup Client:
This is Marshal Finch. His volition is to 100x his startup's growth. Marshal runs a digital advertising firm called SMedia that uses data and AI to help drive quality leads for the retail automotive industry.
Marshal booked me for 10 sessions so that I could help him raise money and scale quickly. We've done 5 of 10 sessions and I have already managed to connect him to multiple potential investors and we've started to put plans into place as to how we are going to reach 100x growth.
#entrepreneurship #startuplife #startups #businessstrategy
Startup Client:
This is Maxine Cunningham. Her volition is thinking about how to best scale her company Pick My Brain. Pick My Brain is an online tool that helps people package and sell their time, knowledge and experience in new, creative and independent ways.
Not only did I partner with Maxine, but I am also helping her refine her pitch, optimize her business model and coach her on scaling strategy.
#entrepreneurship #startuplife #startups #businessstrategy
Volition is a startup advisory firm.
Volition's mission is to help startups to polish their ideas, connect them to community, and coach them through the startup journey.
Additionally, our Volition Events division organizes and manages quality events for the startup community, provide a safe and comfortable environment for everyone to enjoy, learn, network and connect.
Paul is a mastermind at translating founder mind into VC mind. He's direct, incisive and a lot of fun to work with. I only wish I'd called him earlier to workshop my pitches. Either way, I'll definitely be calling him aga...
My session with Paul was great! He always has sound, practical advice that is directly on point. I look forward to future sessions with Paul.
This was one of the most valuable sessions I have had in regards to pitching. I came away with so many amazing tips that I will incorporate into the pitch and outreach. Paul has incredible knowledge and also a great commun...
Amazing session with Paul! He has deep knowledge on the fund raising aspect and willingly shares his experiences as well as helps you arrive at the optimum solutions. I would gladly pay for his inputs in the future when I ...
My call with Paul was one of the most useful conversations I've had since launching my business nine months ago. His knowledge of valuations and raising capital, as well as various industries, made our conversation flow ea...
Paul was GREAT to chat with and is very honest and knowledgeable!
Incredibly generous with not only his time, but with his experience and knowledge. Was an invaluable conversation and I hope to work with Paul in some capacity in the future.
Could not connect, kept pressing 1 and it didn't go through.
Provided helpful strategy information and was very personable to chat with!
Paul is a master-pitch magician. Thank you very much for your help with our pitch.
Excellent guidance. I feel like he helped me refine key points for our target audience. I loved getting an objective opinion and concrete suggestions on how we can make our pitch work better.
Paul was very easy to discuss with, he is a really great listener and very clear about giving actionable direction. He asked the right questions to properly identify the problems I needed to address and his guidance was ex...
Paul was a good listener, started to ask what was my expectation from the meeting and succeeded to make me see on what I should focus on. His explanations were very clear. He gave me a lot of great tips which are very easy...
I got a free advisory session after a Volition pitch event, and selected to meet with Paul because of his experience in fundraising and attracting investors. I found Paul's advice and insights to be incredibly helpful, and...
This was our first conversation ever. I got what I expected (an introduction with Paul and understanding his activities with startups). The value was good considering that Paul does not charge for the first phone chat.
Paul was very knowledgeable and seems to genuinely care about his clients and their success.
6th session with Paul. Continuing to advance the positioning of my startup and in the process of taking bigger strides towards the scalability piece.
Okay we have a functioning product, people are using it, we are mak...
I booked Paul because I needed to step outside the day-to-day shenanigans of running and launching a start-up and sit down with someone who could help me assess where our company was, where it needed to go and how we were ...
