I help startup founders, focusing on practical education and peer-support approaches.

I live in Sofia, Bulgaria, work mainly all over Europe, and these days am often in London, around Africa or in Roma communities. You can contact me at smile@saintsal.com and stay in touch by getting my posts and essays by email.

Organisations I started

• Leancamp a grass-roots event where Lean Startup doers share what works
• Founder-Centrica training house & design studio for startup education
• Village Acceleratorempowers founders in developing economies
• 5 startupssome actually did okay!

Writing, Guides & Books

• Accelerator Design Guide personal experience and research on accelerator design
• Mentor Impactoutlines how top-rated startup mentors think
• Decision Hacksa handbook for faster course-correction

Find my writing on my blog, Medium, the Founder-Centric blog, Help Me Write, and other fine outlets. Or just get everything via email.

Tools you may find useful

• Accelerator Design Cardsa card deck for prototyping and adapting accelerators
• Accelerator Dashboardan actionable dashboard for startup progress
• Startup Pitch Bingogives digestable feedback on missing information
• Braintrusta 1-hour peer-mentoring format for startups
• Brantrust Prep Forma supplementary preparation form for Braintrust
• Customer Development Method Cardshelps choose the right approach
• Rapid Refresherrefresh yourself quickly on long lists
• Business Model JSgenerates business model canvases within a web page using SVG
• Tweetable TextWordpress plugin that makes phrases tweetable