From Yahoo and Philosophy to Landing Meta as a Client

It’s a joy for me when people I know from my professional or personal life achieve success in their own ventures.

I first came to know Rebecca Wolpinsky and Anke Audenart when they were working for companies that contracted with my analytics agency for our services. Since that time, they founded Aptly, where the team designs and produces award-winning business education programs.

We recently sat down and discussed their exciting journeys from corporate life and academia to entrepreneurship.

They shared a range of in-the-trenches insights about:

  • External funding vs. bootstrapping in the early stages
  • Service productization as a consultancy
  • Building a training offering as a consultancy
  • Technical specialists who have to manage people
  • Developing a robust infrastructure and work culture
  • Approaches that were effective in the beginning and over time
Feras Alhlou

Feras Alhlou

Feras has founded, grown, and sold businesses in Silicon Valley and abroad, scaling them from zero revenue to 7 and 8 figures. In 2019, he sold e-Nor, a digital marketing consulting company, to dentsu (a top-5 global media company). Feras has served as an advisor to 150+ other new startup businesses, and in his current venture, Start Up With Feras, he's on a mission to help entrepreneurs in the consulting and services space start and grow their businesses smarter and stronger.

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