Arjé Cahn - Startup Product Coach
Arjé Cahn - Startup Product Coach
My passion is to help Impact Tech & B2B SaaS startups grow. I do this by coaching teams of founders and leveraging my own experience in the product strategy space. I'm also an angel investor, a partner at Shamrock Ventures and a wannabe forest ranger.
As a tech-founder-turned-Silicon-Valley-CPO, I’ve learned how to build and grow a great software product, build well oiled product teams, and to deliver business results. But hey - I’ve made many, many mistakes along the way. I’ve seen great ideas and great products fail badly, actually more often than not.
Over the years, I’ve developed an instinct for such product mistakes. I like to coach founders on their product strategy and help them go from feature-function based roadmaps to roadmaps that help scale the business.
I’ve learned and practiced pretty much any product management book, framework and tool. There are a couple that I’m particularly fond of, and I use these in the workshop sessions I facilitate for my startups.
As a former tech founder, I can relate to the tech side but believe that ultimately product needs to drive business metrics.
Where I’m coming from
Highlighted angel investments
Contentoo
Create, localise, and translate quality content with the top 3% of freelance content creators and customised AI tools. Helping brands worldwide to deliver content that performs at scale in an instant.
Orquesta
Power your SaaS with Large Language Model using no-code collaboration tooling for prompt engineering, experimentation, operations, and monitoring.
Propeller
Propeller is an API-first B2B commerce platform that changes the way your team and customers work together.
Shamrock Ventures
Together with the Shamrock Ventures team, I invest in The Netherlands-based pre-seed tech startups in the following key investment areas:
Shamrock Investments - startups I coach
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Nurtio
Nurtio
Nurtio Technologies provides sensors and software to continuously monitor indoor plant health and ensures a more efficient and sustainable practice in the traditional interiorscaping market.
Redistri
Redistri
Redistri is building Europe’s first autonomous road cargo management platform.
Tiny Library
Tiny Library
Tiny Library is a circular platform where you can rent your baby products safely and sustainably.
Recommendations
Akhil Sivanandan
CEO, Greenstory
As an advisor to Green Story, Arje has been a rare find: he keeps the interest of the company in mind, rather than just getting maximum returns as an investor. As a founder himself, he seems to understand the issues that a company that’s scaling can have at various stages, and knows when to give advise and when to get out of the way. He is quite blunt and straightforward, but has enough tact not to bruise fragile founder egos!
His real contribution for us was on how to make product management central to our business. He really knows a lot of frameworks and can present it in a digestible format.
Iryna van der Meij
CEO, Nurtio Technologies
In the startup world, when you meet someone with deep knowledge and vast experience in both the technical and business side of product management, you treasure them like a gem. Arjé happened to be one of such rare people!
My company got to know him as an investor of Shamrock Ventures. But after the investment was secured, our journey with Arjé has only begun.
Countless times he was there for us as a mentor, advisor, and sparring partner, always bringing a plethora of knowledge to the table, seasoned with a sharp mind, true “out-of-the-box” thinking, and (also important!) excellent composure if/when discussions were getting quite heated.
It is amazing to have someone like Arjé on board because no matter the question, we know that he will always get back to us with solid advice and/or connect us to the best-fitted people to get us the right answers. So a true gem of a partner he is!
Job Rietbergen
CEO, Alphadoc.io
Arjé is an early investor/advisor to Alphadoc and he's proven to be very helpful. He has a lot of know-how about building products, both on the nitty-gritty technicality, as on the strategy side. His experience building scalable tech and ventures is tremendously useful, a true entrepreneur whom we love to work with!
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