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Charles was super insightful and very helpful. He spent time looking over our site, pitch decks and asking questions other advisors wouldn’t even think about! Highly recommend

Charles is an exceptional coach. He gave me thoughtful, comprehensive, and highly useful feedback on my pitch deck, and also helped me sharpen the way I communicate by showing me how to be more concise and effective in my responses and presentations.

Charles gave me practical and honest feedback during my customer discovery phase. He asked the right questions, challenged my assumptions, and helped me think more clearly about my idea. I appreciate the straightforward and actionable guidance.

If you are a founder building something real and need sharp, straight-forward, transpartent and strategic feedback, I definitely recommend speaking with him.

I had a mentoring session with Charles last week and it was truly valuable. (I found him throught ADPlist)

He helped me rethink where I should focus, what really matters in my strategy, and how to properly validate my problem and solution before trying to scale. His advice was clear, honest and practical.

Great feedback and valuable insight. Honest and straight forward, which is greatly needed and appreciated!

I am really thankful, because Charles give me clear step I should follow, and mistake I should avoid, to not burn out my resources (time, money) "again". The discussion was insightful. He tried to understand the product and even if he thought it might be a niche for it, he asked me one question: "Have you already done customer discovery?". Very interesting, looking forward to discuss again later.

I’m incredibly grateful to Charles for his guidance and support. He demystified customer discovery calls and gave me the confidence to reach out to people to uncover truly underserved needs. Charles’s advice on choosing a co-founder was spot on and helped me navigate one of the most critical early decisions. He also generously shared his own experiences around building products and managing teams, which made his guidance practical and grounded in reality. His mentorship call had a lasting impact on how I approach building products.

Charles provided timely and highly valuable feedback on an investor video we were preparing for a LinkedIn outreach campaign. His advice was direct, pragmatic, and free of unnecessary embellishment, which helped us sharpen the narrative and better align it with our target audience. I would readily seek his input again and recommend him to any startup looking for clear, effective strategic guidance.

Knowledgeable and precise. Charles and I had a solid conversation about startup validation.

Imagine having a conversation with a mentor, you’ll be able to have an honest back and forth about your ideas and processes. He’ll will for sure leave you with food for thought.

Come prepared.

Charles was an invaluable mentor throughout the GameChanger programme. His guidance on our go-to-market strategy, fundraising approach, and pitching/presentation skills was instrumental in sharpening our focus and elevating our startup's narrative. Charles has a rare talent for providing actionable insights that are both strategic and practical. I highly recommend him to any startup looking for transformative mentorship.

Charles was very helpful in giving actionable steps that I could implement in the projects I am working on and the tasks I felt stuck on.

He was extremely understanding and patient and also clear and straight to the point which helped me in being able to see things I hadn’t thought of before.

Thank you Charles

Charles was incredibly helpful in every way possible; in the technical, managerial and motivation sense, as well as in his commitment to be approachable. We knew how to reach him, and he made it clear regarding how accessible he was, which he (indeed) turned out to be. We contacted him for some help with our trip to Ethiopia and received it the very next day. Some of his advice also led to changes regarding how we work in the day-to-day sense, and he personally coached me to be better at motivating the team.

Working with Charles Hope over the past six months in the Seedbed Program (EIT Food) was n incredibly enriching experience. Coming from a purely academic background, we learned more about the business and entrepreneurial world than we ever expected. Charles consistently provided clear, practical, and insightful guidance that helped us understand how to translate scientific ideas into real opportunities. Beyond his expertise, he was always attentive, supportive, and genuinely committed to our progress. We always felt that we could reach out whenever we needed help, and he made sure we never felt lost. His mentorship made a significant difference in our journey, and we are very grateful for his dedication.

Had a session with Charles recently to explore a skill-based offshoring executive assistant platform, leveraging my community of women creatives in Pakistan toward enabling dollar-pegged earnings.

His feedback was insightful with probing questions, appreciated the rigour. We’ve built a self-sustainable model. Highly recommended, 5/5 for asking the right questions.

I went to Charles for help with my pitch deck, and the difference is night and day. He didn't just look at the slides; he helped me refine the narrative and structure so the story really lands. I feel much more confident pitching now. Thanks for being awesome, Charles!

I had the pleasure of working with Charles through the EIT Food Seedbed programme, and his guidance has been one of the most valuable experiences of my journey to the startup world. Charles didn’t provide general advice, but he really taught me how to think and act like a real entrepreneur, which was not simple for a guy like me who has been an academic all my adult life.
Charles showed me how to communicate more effectively with customers, investors, suppliers, distributors and other partners, focusing on how to follow up properly after meetings, and how to build strong relationships.
Apart from that, his guidance on using AI tools and on finding the right co-founder was eye-opening and immediately useful.
What I appreciated most was his clarity, patience, and the positive energy he brought to every session. He truly cares about the founders he works with, and his feedback has directly improved how we develop and present our agri-tech company.
I highly recommend Charles to any early-stage founder looking for honest, practical and impactful mentorship.

Charles is very knowledgeable, is currently advising me with my project and I am in the process of implementing his guidance

Charles gave me solid intel, was a major truth teller, and provided great feedback and advice for my startup. The meeting met every expectation, and much more, because with me being honest about my knowledge (or lack thereof) of how to start my business, I was given real world information and advice on what my next steps could be. So far, using his advice and applying it has been really helpful, and I look forward to working more with him.

They are super amazing and very lovely people. I got reviewed immediately I reached out to them and they started out with my Pitch Deck, gave very detailed feedback and recommendation and when I implemented , i began to see more response from investors. It is also worthy to note how swift and attentive they are and always ready to help with any difficult situation your start up is experiencing. I am more than happy to have used them. Thanks for everything guys.

I had a chance to work with Charles during a startup advisory session focused on my pitch deck. His feedback was straightforward, candid, and incredibly actionable. He didn’t just point out what needed improvement - he explained why, providing valuable insight into how investors actually think and evaluate opportunities. In just one session, he helped me see my presentation through an investor’s eyes and make concrete changes that significantly improved its clarity and impact. Highly recommended for any founder looking for honest, high-value feedback.