Why Work With Me?

Every successful venture starts by asking the right questions. The answers to those questions determine the ultimate success or failure of your idea. But what are the right questions? And how do you know when you have the right answers?

Knowing the right questions and recognizing the right answers becomes easier with experience. You can learn through trial and error. Or you can enlist the help of an experienced mentor.

In the long run, a mentor will save you valuable time in getting to market, minimize wasted expense, and prevent a great deal of needless aggravation and frustration.

Why Listen to Me?

Over the years I’ve helped thousands of students and business associates navigate past the many pitfalls of business startup. I have personally advised dozens of successful startups and teach entrepreneurship at one of the top business schools in the world.

While I would love to personally help each and every person who asks, there’s only so much time in the day. Unfortunately, reliable and available mentors can be hard to come by.

That’s why I’ve boiled down the precise strategies I use to guide my own students and business partners past the pitfalls of business startup into The Entrepreneur’s Fast-Start System.

In this comprehensive set of guidebooks I’ve outlined the core essentials of starting a new business. I take you step-by-step through the critical decisions that must be made. And most importantly, I’ll help you ask the right questions and recognize the right answers.

My Process Answers Your Questions:

1.When should I quit my day job to pursue my business idea?

2.How much time and money should I spend developing prototypes and doing legal paperwork?

3.Do I possess the right personality and qualities to be a successful entrepreneur?

4.How do I seek funding? What are my options, and how do I approach them?

5.What simple steps can save me months of agony after developing the product and forming the company?

6.How do I select the right team members and fairly divide equity?

Remember, you can find the answers to these and other questions on your own… but with my process you can do so before you have already wasted large amounts of time and effort!

To your success,

Naeem Zafar
Faculty, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Silicon Valley, California, USA

P.S. I almost forgot to tell you about my e- book, 7 Steps to a Successful Startup. It’ll help you answer the really big questions before you invest another dime in your new idea. Consider it a map to the first mile marker on your road to startup business success—and it’s my gift to you. Just tell me your name, your email address, and your most pressing startup question in the fields below and I’ll send your copy right away.

Testimonials

"..Invaluable, on-the-money advice..."

"Succinct, compelling, profound - this book is invaluable with full on-the-money advice that would have been priceless when I was starting my last company. It could take a lifetime to learn what Naeem lucidly summed up in just a few dozen pages. It's a must read for any entrepreneur!"

-Slavik Zorin Founder and CEO Synchrony Systems, New York

"Clear guidance based on knowledge gained by experience"

"Many of us believe that one day we will start our own companies. But what do you need to know before you take that irreversible step of quitting your job? Naeem Zafar's 7 Steps to a Successful Startup is just what the new entrepreneur needs. Providing clear guidance based on knowledge gained by experience! I commend this book to all who consider launching themselves on this exciting journey."

- Jerome S. Engel Executive Director Lester Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, UC Berkeley

"Insightful and practical"

"I have been with five startups in my career mostly as VP of engineering and I clearly see that having followed Naeem's advice would have changed the fate of these companies that I was involved with - very insightful and practical. Excellent!"

- Dr. Bulent Erbilgin VP of Engineering, SS8 Networks, California