Felipe Millan
Community Builder
Startup Mentor & Advisor
Brand/Product Evangelist
About Me
Hello. I’m Felipe Millan!
An ambitious, successful entrepreneur with a proven record of accomplishments in conceptualizing, launching, and directing start-up ventures in diverse markets and economic climates. Adept at translating ideas into commercially viable services and products. Provide mentoring and advice to entrepreneurs in start-up ecosystems, accelerators, and incubators. Expertise in obtaining funding from angel investors, government programs, and other sources to create technology solutions driving meaningful change.
Felipe Millán
personal information
- Full Name
- Felipe Millan Assler
- http://lnkd.in/felipemillan
- Location
- Tallinn, Estonia
- Meetings
languages
Areas of Expertise
These are the areas that based on his prior experiences as an entrepreneur, community builder, and brand/product evangelist he performs the best, and always ready for a new challenge.
Start-up Business Operations
Technology Products & Solutions
Community & Partner Development
Strategic Relationship Cultivation
Accelerators, VCs & Corporate Partnerships
Cross-functional Collaboration
Conference & Meeting Presentations
Workshop & Training Development
Event Planning & Strategy
Remote Work
work experience
Community Development Manager
Joined SendGrid in May 2016, prior to the ~$1.5B IPO in November 2017 and $3B acquisition by Twilio in November 2018. Drive the community for Twilio SendGrid Accelerate program providing start-ups with mentoring, networking opportunities, and free access to SendGrid’s cloud email platform as well as early release and beta products. Conceptualize, organize, and facilitate in-person and online workshops.
- Evangelize program, products, and services to cultivate relationships with premier start-up accelerators, venture capital funds, innovation hubs, and key ecosystem players.
- Identified members and partners, bringing 50+ partners and 550+ accounts generating$15K+ MRR and $35K cMRR, includingTechstars, 500, Startup Bootcamp.
- Keynote speaker and delivered presentations in 20+ countries (Pakistan, Poland, Hungary, Norway, and more.), including regional and international conferences, CTO & developer meetups, networking events, workshops, and other content-focused events to build brand awareness and customer engagement.
- Managed social media engagement using GaggleAmp to pushTwilio SendGrid content and reach 14.2M individuals through his own social media channels (Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, and Instagram).
- Served as a technical resource for the team, start-ups, and partners, hosting technical onboarding and office hours for technical and business support to assist in integrating SendGrid with partner/member technology stacks.
- Contributed to continuous product improvement by gathering and conveying feedback from the field to product and developer experience teams.
Marketing, Growth & Pitch Startup Mentor & Advisor
Multiple Accelerators, +20 countriesProvide expert advice and guidance in growth hacking and marketing strategy, advanced email marketing techniques, and pitching training to some of the 50+ top accelerators in the world, to name a few:
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Startup Chile Program
5/2016 to Present, Chile. -
Techstars Accelerator
5/2016 to Present, Worldwide. -
Startupbootcamp Accelerator
5/2016 to Present, Worldwide. -
Startup Wise Guys Accelerator
5/2016 to Present, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. -
Katapult Accelerator
3/2017 to Present, Norway. -
TheNestIO
3/2017-Present, Pakistan.
Founder & Entrepreneur
Founded and led several start-up ventures. Develop business concepts and models, obtained funding, orchestrated marketing, and oversaw day-to-day operations.
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Biletu, 3/2012 to 1/2015
Founder & CEO of mobile app to enable payment exchange between users with simple and effective UX integrating gamification and social features. Part of Startup Chile and Startup Wise Guys Accelerator. -
PymeFacil, 3/2010 to 2/2012
CTO & Co-founder of first entrepreneurship agency in Chile assisting 110+ start-ups and companies in launching new ventures with a 65% success rate. -
Orangemedialabs, 1/2000 to 4/2016
Founder & Directed all projects ranging from web development and web consultation. +150 clients.
events & activities
Mentoring & Advising
Mentoring & Advising
Sharing my failures and success stories is part of myself. Sharing is caring and every entrepreneur, need to hear more about failure than success.
I had the pleasure to mentor and advice more than 500 startups in 3 years. I see myself in their eyes, and it makes my day when I can give them my personal point of view to their challenges and problems. I'm here to help them.
- Startups:
- +500
- Format:
- 1-1, Judged, Workshops, Roundtables
- Events:
- Founders Day Slush, 021Disrupt, TNW, etc.
Public Speaking
Public Speaking
Inspire and motivate people is what drives me. I always try to craft the most valuable content to the audiences that I talk to.
- Talks:
- +20
- Workshops:
- +60
- Events:
- 021Disrupt / Startup Grind / Startup Turkey /
Events
Events
I attend more than 60 events a year. From corporate events like Web Summit, SaaS Meetups, Founders Gathering to Lunch & Learn with Accelerators
- Attend
- +300
- Organized
- +100
- Best Events:
- Startup Extreme / Pirate Summit / TNW
Founder & Entrepreneur
Founder & Entrepreneur
Ambitious, successful entrepreneur with proven record of accomplishments in conceptualizing, launching, and directing start-up ventures in diverse markets and economic climates. Adept at translating ideas into commercially viable services and products.
- Startups:
- 10
- Fail:
- 7
- Success:
- 3
References
I had the pleasure of working with Felipe for 2 1/2 years starting at SendGrid and through the acquisition of SendGrid by Twilio. Felipe consistently demonstrated an amazingly positive attitude, an aptitude for finding opportunity in every interaction, the capacity to work with people from a broad range of cultures, backgrounds and all the while doing it with a smile. Felipe is a seasoned evangelist with a solid rolodex, he'd be an asset to any company he joins!
Felipe has been instrumental in the success of SendGrid in Europe. His drive and passion for building a community has helped elevate the brand and drive revenue. Every time we needed his help at an event in Europe we knew we could count on him to execute the event and make SendGrid stand out.
Working with Felipe has always been an extreme pleasure. Whether we are talking about his positive attitude or his problem-solving abilities, his drive to achieve results no matter the circumstances is admirable. He is very quick to respond and with his eyes on the ball at all times. I thoroughly enjoyed working with him both as a partner of TNW as well as during various community-building activities at numerous conferences.
Felipe is an ongoing mentor at SWG accelerator. He helps early-stage startups with building a business mindset and sharing email-marketing knowledge. Clear and specific with step-by-step guidance, followed by his experience.
Felipe has been a great connection for us at SendGrid, helping us to get started with their services and introducing us to their startup program. It has been easy to communicate all the time, and he has been good at explaining how things work.