You learned how to do the work.
Nobody taught you how to build the company.
I help ambitious founders find what’s holding them back, make better decisions, and build businesses that can grow beyond them.
Founder-to-founder. No generic playbooks. No pretending business is easy.
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Built through experience
250+ international clients
Worked with businesses across international markets.
Founder & CEO of SmartClick
Built and led a digital growth company.
Host of Leaders of Growth
Conversations with founders, executives, and growth leaders.
Speaker, Author & Mentor
Sharing lessons through business events, The Next Web, and founder communities.
Does this sound familiar?
You wanted to own a business.
Somehow, the business started owning you.
You started with a skill. Maybe you were a developer, marketer, designer, engineer, or consultant. You were good at what you did.
Clients came. Revenue grew. You hired people. And somewhere along the way, you became a founder. But nobody handed you a manual for what came next.
Now you’re responsible for sales, hiring, people, money, strategy, and the decisions nobody else wants to make.
The problems change. The feeling doesn’t.
Everything still depends on you.Your team can execute, but too many decisions still come back to your desk.
You’re busy, but not always moving forward.You spend your days solving urgent problems while the important ones remain untouched.
You’re not sure what to fix first.Sales? People? Positioning? Processes? Yourself?
You keep postponing difficult decisions.The conversation you should have had months ago. The hire that isn’t working. The strategy you know needs to change.
You don’t have many people you can be completely honest with.Your employees expect confidence. Your family wants stability. Your peers see your achievements. But who do you talk to when you’re not sure what to do?
Here’s something I’ve learned: Sometimes the biggest problem in your business isn’t the one you’re spending all your time trying to solve. And when you’re too close to the business, it’s difficult to see the difference.
A different way to grow
Maybe you don’t need to work harder.
Maybe you need to stop working on the wrong problem.
1
More hours
won’t fix unclear priorities.
2
Another employee
won’t automatically fix poor leadership.
3
More leads
won’t fix an offer that doesn’t resonate.
4
Another productivity tool
won’t solve a decision you’ve been avoiding.
5
Another business book
won’t make the difficult conversation for you.
Two ways to work with me
One conversation can change your perspective.
Twelve weeks can help you change how you operate.
Option 01 · Founder Bottleneck
Bring your biggest problem. Find your next step.
You don’t need to arrive with the perfect explanation. Bring the challenge that’s been keeping you awake. The decision you’ve been postponing. The problem that keeps coming back. Or simply the feeling that something in your business isn’t working the way it should.
We’ll explore what’s really happening, challenge your assumptions, and identify the most important next step.
What you’ll get
- Pre-session business brief
- One focused 60-minute private session
- An outside perspective on your biggest challenge
- A clearer understanding of the underlying bottleneck
- Practical next steps and a concise follow-up summary
- One accountability check-in
Best for: Founders who need clarity on an important problem or decision.
Option 02 · Founder Advisory
Stop figuring everything out alone.
Some problems can’t be solved in a single conversation. They require difficult decisions, consistent execution, and someone who will challenge your thinking as the situation evolves.
For 12 weeks, we work together on the challenges that matter most to your business. We identify the main constraint. Set priorities. Work through decisions. Review execution. And keep moving forward.
Not as another consultant handing you a presentation. As a founder who’s been in the arena and understands what it’s like when the responsibility ends with you.
What you’ll get
- 12 weekly private 1:1 sessions
- An initial business bottleneck diagnostic
- Personalized priorities and a 90-day action plan
- Weekly accountability
- Agreed decision support between sessions
- Session summaries and next actions
- A final progress review
Best for: Founders who are ready to commit to meaningful changes in their business.
Maximum five active advisory founders.
The founders I understand best
You’ve outgrown the way you used to run your business.
I work best with founders who have already built something real. You have customers. You generate revenue. You may have employees or a small leadership team.
You’ve proven you can do the work. Now you’re discovering that building a company requires a different set of skills.
You want to grow, but not at the cost of losing yourself inside the business. You want a team that takes ownership. You want to make better decisions. You want to stop solving the same problems repeatedly. And you’re willing to question your own role in what’s holding the company back.
We might be a good fit if:
- You’re ambitious, but open-minded.
- You’re willing to be challenged, not just validated.
- You take responsibility for your decisions.
- You’re ready to turn conversations into action.
- You care about building a stronger company, not simply increasing revenue.
- You want a business that can eventually operate without depending on you for everything.
You don’t need to have everything figured out. You do need to be willing to look honestly at what’s not working.
Founder to founder
I didn’t learn business from watching other people build theirs.
I started as a developer. Then I became a freelancer. I worked with more than 250 international clients before building SmartClick. And somewhere along that journey, I discovered that being good at the work and being good at building a company are two very different things.
I’ve experienced the excitement of winning clients. The pressure of making payroll. The frustration of hiring the wrong people. The uncertainty of sales. The difficult conversations. The partnerships. The mistakes. And the decisions you can’t delegate because, at the end of the day, it’s your company.
Some decisions worked. Others became expensive lessons. I’m still learning. I’m still building. And I don’t believe that being a founder means having all the answers. But I do believe you can become much better at asking the right questions, recognizing what’s holding you back, and making decisions before problems become more expensive.
Today, I build businesses, advise founders, mentor entrepreneurs, host Leaders of Growth, and share what I’m learning through speaking and writing.
I don’t want to teach you how to build a perfect company. I want to help you build a stronger one, while becoming the founder capable of leading it.
How I think about business
I won’t always tell you what you want to hear.
And I won’t pretend to know your business better than you do. But I will bring an outside perspective, ask uncomfortable questions, and challenge assumptions that may be keeping you stuck.
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Find the problem behind the problem.
What looks like a sales problem might actually be a positioning problem. What looks like a people problem might be a leadership problem. We start by understanding the cause, not just reacting to the symptoms.
02
Make decisions, not just plans.
A strategy is only useful when it changes what you do. We’ll examine your options, the trade-offs, and what needs to happen next.
03
Focus on what matters.
Not every opportunity deserves your attention. Not every problem is equally important. The goal is to identify the decisions that can create meaningful progress.
04
Take ownership.
I can challenge you, share experience, and help you think. But you remain responsible for your company. You make the decisions. You lead the people. You execute.
05
Build beyond yourself.
A stronger business shouldn’t require you to become even more indispensable. It should gradually become more capable of operating without your involvement in every decision.
Words from people I’ve worked with
Sometimes an outside perspective changes everything.
Milan and I advise each other on how to run our businesses. We show each other our blind spots. Honestly, sometimes uncomfortably, always to get better. His advice doesn’t come from a framework. It comes from building SmartClick from nothing and getting through the hard parts himself. If you’ve become the ceiling of your own company, talk to Milan.
I’ve had the pleasure of working and meeting with many professionals in our line of work, but Milan is someone who I will always remember fondly. He has excellent management skills, a knack for keeping everyone calm and productive, and a deep understanding of the industry.
Milan is an extremely capable and determined professional. An exceptional leader that inspires, motivates and drives results. The teams he led kept exceeding expectations and raised the bar on how a relationship should be nurtured.
More than advisory
I believe better businesses are built through better people, decisions, and relationships.
My work goes beyond private advisory. I’m building an ecosystem where ambitious founders can learn, connect, challenge one another, and create opportunities together.
Leaders of Growth
Real conversations about what it takes to grow.
Through my podcast, I speak with founders, executives, and growth leaders about the decisions, mistakes, strategies, and experiences behind building businesses.
Founder Communities
The right room can change the way you think.
Through founder communities, mastermind conversations, and initiatives such as Inner Circle and President’s Club, my ambition is to bring together people who challenge one another and share practical experience.
Partnerships & Business Building
Some opportunities are bigger than one person or company.
I’m interested in working with ambitious founders and businesses where strategic relationships, experience, and aligned incentives can create long-term value.
Ideas worth sharing
Lessons from building, leading, and sometimes getting it wrong.
I write about the things founders don’t always discuss openly. The difficult decisions. The leadership mistakes. The gap between ambition and execution. The lessons that only become obvious after you’ve paid for them.
Your next chapter
You don’t have to figure out every important decision alone.
You’ve already proven you can build something. You found customers. You created value. You took risks. You made mistakes. You kept going.
Now the question is different. Can you build a company that no longer depends on you for everything?
You don’t need to solve every problem today. You don’t need another fifty-page business plan. And you don’t need someone to tell you how successful you should be. Maybe you just need one honest conversation about what’s actually holding you back.
Bring me the messy version.
The uncertainty. The difficult decision. The problem you’ve tried to solve three times. We’ll start there.