Charles Hope
Founder & Startup Advisor
at Your Startup Advisor Ltd.
I’m a 4X founder with 26 years of experience, including 14 in and around startups. My career also includes product, project and customer experience roles at Google, Apple and Groupon.
I’ve guided 700+ founders, and I regularly work with 20+ startup programs globally, from idea through Series A. I’m sector-agnostic because I don’t work on a company’s technology. I work on the company.
Founders bring me customer discovery, first customers and go-to-market strategy, product decisions, co-founder selection and equity structures, fundraising, hiring, the move from founder to CEO, and more. I coach rather than direct. I ask questions, pressure-test the decision in front of you, then tell you what I’d do in your shoes and why. Give first is how I work, so the help always comes before anything else.
Content & Articles by Charles Hope
Most Startup Content Is Invisible: Here’s How to Fix It
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Irina Maltseva, founder of Seen, to share how early-stage B2B SaaS companies get found on Google and inside LLMs. She has spent...
Setting Up A Founder-Led Organic LinkedIn Content Machine With Claude
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Jonathan Martinez, founder and CEO of GrowthPair, to share how founder-led LinkedIn content took his startup from zero to $1M in annual...
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos, to share...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...