What is Startup Advisor?
Based in Silicon Valley, California, Startup Advisor is the place for entrepreneurs looking for practical and meaningful advice on every aspect of starting and growing a business.
My name is Naeem Zafar. I have taken my years of experience as a serial entrepreneur and an educator of entrepreneurship at one of the world’s top universities and packaged that into simple and easy to read e-books.
About the author.
Naeem Zafar has been teaching at the University of California, Berkeley since 2005. He is a Dean’s Teaching Fellow, lecturer and Industry Fellow at the at the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology. He is also the Professor of the Practice at Brown University and Professor of Practice at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. He teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Technology Strategy, Innovation and New Venture Finance at Brown and Berkeley.
Naeem is a seasoned executive who has led five high-tech businesses as the CEO and guided dozens as a Board member or an advisor. His last venture, TeleSense (an AgTech company, reducing spoilage for the post-harvest grain industry using IoT and AI), was acquired by UPL. Previously he co-founded and served as the CEO of Bitzer Mobile, an enterprise security and mobility company that was acquired by Oracle in November 2013. Naeem started his own business at the age of 26 and subsequently went on to start, or work at, six startups.
His first job out of Brown University with a degree in electrical engineering was to design chips and electronic systems.
Twenty years, two kids, one IPO and three CEO stints later, he founded Startup-Advisor, a company focused on educating and advising entrepreneurs on all aspects of starting and running a business (www.Startup-Advsior.com ). Naeem has authored five books on entrepreneurship on topics ranging from conducting market research to seeking the right funding to successful ways to start a business. Information can be found on www.NaeemZafar.com. His books including “7-Steps to a Successful Startup” are also available on Amazon.com, Kindle and on the iTunes App store.
Naeem has perosanally advised dozens of successful startups and teaches entrepreneurship at one of the top business schools in the world.