Mau Robles  new_releases

Twenty-two years of business experience focused on entrepreneurship, innovation, finances, and investment. I’ve spent the last eleven years developing new ventures both as CEO/Founder of a tech startup and as CFO/Innovation Manager at a San Francisco-based company, managing innovation, strategy, product development, business model design, growth hacking, and fundraising. The prior ten years I spent in the finances and investment banking industry, managing portfolios worth millions of dollars in assets and developing innovative "out-of-the-box" financing strategies, while holding several C-Level positions. Through my experience in both the worlds of new ventures creation and investment in capital markets, I was able to discover my purpose in life (what Japanese culture calls “Ikigai”), which is adding value at the intersection of entrepreneurship (my passion), innovation (my vocation), finances (my profession) and wealth creation (my mission). My personal moonshot is to help create one million new millionaires in my lifetime (especially in under-developed countries). HARD SKILLS & FRAMEWORKS * Business Model Design: Moonshot Thinking, Futures Thinking (foresight analysis), Disruptive Innovation Model, Strategyzer's Corporate Identity Triangle Model & Culture Map * Customer-Centric Design: Design Thinking, Systems Thinking, Google's Design Sprint, Steve Blank's Lean LaunchPad (Customer Development Model), Stanford d.school's Equity-Centered Design * Business Model Design: Leanstack's Canvas, Business Model Canvas (BMC), Value Proposition Canvas (VPC), Business Model Portfolio Map, Strategyzer's Business Model Patterns/Shift Libraries * Business Scalability Design: Exponential Organizations Model (ExO Sprint, ExO Canvas, ExQ Lever), Digital Transformation (DX), multi-sided and ecosystem platforms design * Innovation Management: Outcome Driven Innovation (ODI Model), Future Jobs-to-be-Done, Strategyzer's Innovation Metrics & Growth Funnel, innovation accounting & risk management * Growth Management: Lean Analytics, Pirate Metrics Funnel (viral loops design), G.R.O.W.S. Iterative Process (growth hacking feedback loops design), technology adoption lifecycle strategy * Product Development: Lean Startup, Lean UX, Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP, SAFe), Interaction Design (IxD), User Experience Design, Service Design, Skunkworks project management, OKRs * Startup Development: Leanstack's Bottoms-up Traction Modeling, bootstrapping, crowdsourcing, Incubators, Accelerators, Venture Builders, corporate venture, entrepreneurial ecosystems design * Startup Financing: Pitching, soft-circling, funding (3Fs, crowd, seed, angel, venture capital, venture debt, Initial Coin Offering), Founder Friendly equity & convertibles Term Sheets (SAFE, KISS, NVCA, Gust's & Sam Altman's) * Venture Investing: Startup scouting, pre-growth valuations, Innovation Options, metered funding, exit strategies (M&As, Initial Public Offerings, Reverse Take-Overs, SPACs, Depositary Receipts, Leverage/Management Buyouts, ESOPs, spin-offs, liquidations) SOFT SKILLS * Rapid adaptability * Unstructured problem-solving * Resilience under uncertainty and constant change * Hustler / Negotiator * Value hunter * Dots connector * Creativity and experimentation enabler * High EQ and a sense of humor in the face of adversity * Servant leadership * Radical candor communication * Reflective listening * Braintrust collaboration * Calm Company evangelist * Mentoring & Coaching * Group facilitation * Asynchronous and remote working * Financial storytelling * Keynote speaker