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An international network of serious Product Owners, with a unique mission, who are ready to help

A simple mission:
We Do Not Profit From Startups

We are founders, advisors, executives, and investors. We have failed and we have exited and we have learned from our experience working with companies and organizations in every industry, at every level, and with every technology.

For the last 6+ years, we've set out on a unique mission - to help as many startups as we can in an aggressively non-predatory way - not like an agency, not like a dev shop, but like something completely new.

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It goes well beyond CPOs

We built an entire network of experts to help - CTOs, CXOs, Product Owners, Project Managers, developers, designers and everyone in between.

But only senior, experienced folks.

All part of the FastCTO network.

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Time To Plan

If you build it, they won't just come
but when they come, make sure they stay

When a company is young, the founder(s) is the de-facto product owner, regardless of their background. But eventually, that's just not enough. But a full time product owner may still be overkill and too expensive.

That's where we step in with super experienced product owners, aligned with your industry, who can come in and help you get on track. Not just a checkbox on your org chart but real value and efficiency added to everything you're working on.

Get a handle on your product, your roadmap, your customers, and your market. Explore partnerships, integrations, and new features.

With the FastCPO approach, you can access just as much of a senior, experienced Product Owner as you need, without any retainers or minimums.

What Exactly Is
A Product Owner?

Vision and Strategy

The CPO is responsible for setting the vision and strategy for the product. They define what the product should be, who it's for, and how it will provide value. This vision guides the work of the development team and ensures that the product aligns with the company's overall goals.

Roadmap and Prioritization

In a startup, resources are limited. The CPO is responsible for prioritizing features and tasks based on their potential impact on the business. This helps to ensure that the team is always working on the most valuable tasks.

Customer Advocate

The CPO often serves as the voice of the customer within the startup. They work to understand the needs and desires of the customer and ensure that these are reflected in the product. This helps balance the roadmap between what the team wants to build and what the customer actually needs.

Communication

The CPO is often the bridge between the development team and the rest of the company. They ensure that the team has the information they need to build the product and that the rest of the company understands what the product is and how it works. In an early stage startup, the CPO also assumes the role of a project manager so you don't need to hire one.

Agile Practices

Whether your team runs on Kanban or Scrum or, as most often the case, somewhere in between, the CPO plays a key role in managing the product backlog, defining user stories, and accepting completed work. This helps to ensure that the development process is efficient and effective.

It Starts With Experience

At the core of almost every engagement is a real CPO with decades of experience with product management and helping startups.

Most of our CPOs have been through fundraising, multiple exits, building out companies from 0 to IPO and all the milestones in between that you would want your CPO to have experience with.

Roadmaps, integrations, client advocacy, and more - they've done it all.

No Selling

Super thin margins (vs ~70% of a typical agency) - just enough to keep us running. If we accidentally make a profit, we put it in an angel fund and reinvest back into startups.

This non-profit approach means we have nothing to sell you, but so much to offer.

About Our Mission

Proven Track Record

No company is perfect and we don't pretend to be, but whereas a typical agency has a ~10% success rate (where everyone is happy and the deliverables are exactly what they should have been), we've lost only 3 clients in 6+ years.

And we're not happy about it, but we're open about it and after each, we've made our processes better and better.

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Aligned With Your Goals

We turn away just as many startups as we take on - we'd rather you not spend any money at all than to spend it unnecessarily with us.

We also believe that introductions should be free so if you reach out and we believe you need something else, we'll always point you in the right direction.

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We Also
Work With

Accelerators

We work with accelerators all over the world to immediately upskill every company in their current and past cohorts by bringing in CTOs, CPOs, super senior developers and shared services like devops and designers on demand.

Investors

Let us help with your technical due diligence using our unique approach. Build a diligence team of not just experts, but experts in exactly the thing you're looking at. Instead a 60 page report for a company you knew you weren't interested in on day 3, pay only for the time spent. Bring your DD costs down by >4x.

Dev Shops

Ever feel like your client isn't asking for the right thing but don't know how to explain it? That doesn't happen here. Bring along one of our CTOs to your existing projects and see the difference. Deliver what is actually needed, with the right architecture. Your developers will love you for it.

Universities

Whether it's a guest speaking spot or an MBA workshop, we work with a dozen universities in all sorts of manner, usually without any costs. Talk to us!

Not Startups

We love to focus on startups because we believe most startups fail by wasting money building the wrong thing, but we work with plenty growth companies and even unicorns. From interim executives, shared services, a completely different approach to staffing, and full team build outs - about 30% of the companies we work with are Series B+.