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I share what I've learned, so you can succeed faster.

Three decades of entrepreneurship. Six exits.
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About Daniel

I live to create.

Three decades, six exits, and more lessons than I can count. I've built, led and advised startups, scale-ups, and established companies across many sectors, including financial services, media, advertising, apparel, lifestyle, travel and more.

Named Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 by the Norwegian Venture Capital Association, I've served on the Google Cloud Advisory Board, contributed as a fintech expert at Forbes, and been featured live on CNBC, BBC, Bloomberg, and numerous podcasts.

I developed the Idea Validation Framework and the Simple Strategy Framework, which I teach to entrepreneurs and leadership teams.

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Daniel R. Doderlein
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What I Do

Everything I know,
formatted to your needs.

From hourly engagements to co-founder roles and everything in between. I help entrepreneurs, startups, scale-ups, and established companies.

Idea Validation

Most ideas fail at market contact. My open-source Idea Validation Framework helps you test assumptions fast and find out if your idea has legs. I work one-on-one with founders, run leadership team sessions, and lead full-company workshops. For longer-term projects, I stay on to guide the validation experiments through to conclusion.

Strategy

My Simple Strategy Framework turns complex situations into clear plans. I facilitate strategy sessions one-on-one, with leadership teams, or across entire organisations. Whether it's a full-day workshop or a multi-month engagement, you walk away with a strategy you can actually execute.

Consulting

You present the challenge, I roll up my sleeves. From targeted hourly engagements to full-time project work, I help with product, innovation, digital transformation, AI adoption, strategy, financing, and M&A across any venture stage.

Advisory

I serve as a strategic advisor, either formally announced or behind the scenes with your leadership team. I provide guidance on an ongoing retainer, helping you navigate critical decisions, partnerships, transformations and growth.

Board Roles

I have extensive board experience and served for 15 years as the CEO of a pan-european regulated financial services company. With a spotless regulatory track record, fit and proper status across all EEA jurisdictions, and extensive experience from M&A, financing, transformation and regulatory shifts, I take on professional board roles on a case by case basis.

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How It Works

The future is conversational.
Let's talk.

The fastest way to find out if we're a good fit is a conversation.
Here's how.

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Talk to Odina

Odina is Daniel's assistant. She'll talk with you about your project and answer questions about how Daniel can help.

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Match

No one likes wasting time. Odina will tell you honestly whether Daniel can help.

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Let's Meet

If it's a good fit, Odina will schedule a meeting for you with Daniel.

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Testimonials

What people say.

I went through the Idea Validation Framework with Daniel, which helped me clarify my next steps and ensure I was focusing on the right things. It is fascinating to see how pedagogic it was and the energy it created amongst the founders.

Jan Christian Fosseidbråten

Jan Christian Fosseidbråten

CEO at Eidra Norway

Many of the things that went well 6 months later were closely tied to the plan and approach that came out of the framework!

Daniel Caetanya Fossum

Daniel Caetanya Fossum

Managing Partner at Founders & Fools

We workshopped through new ideas and did several validation experiments to find possible growth paths. The framework is structured, logical and inspired the whole team. Since then we've continued to apply the methodology.

Aurora Aastad

Aurora Aastad

Founding CEO at Stas

I have done both the idea validation and simple strategy framework. It has helped me focus, identify new opportunities and accelerated growth in my business. Just do it!

Cecilie Marø Høiback

Cecilie Marø Høiback

CEO & Designer at The Interior Collective

Direct, funny and helped me think bigger about my idea. Just try! It's a good experience!

Silje Nilsen

Silje Nilsen

CEO at Biologisk

Very concrete, very detailed, hands on and practical. I recommend this 100%

Marie Kobro

Marie Kobro

Co-founder at NoPhone

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