We accelerate your startup towards profitability by refining your messaging for investors, structuring deals, and taking priority actions fast.
If you've gone further as an established business, we can take you on a journey to free up your time to focus on what you are most passionate about.
We accelerate your startup towards profitability by refining your messaging for investors, structuring deals, and taking priority actions fast.
If you've gone further as an established business, we can free up your time to focus on what you are most passionate about.
Accelerate Your Business
Set up your business, structure your products and services, and market and profit from them
Realize Your Future Faster
Work less, profit more, and invest in realizing your dreams
I’ve been working with Raihan since 2016, he has been instrumental really in helping structure and set up different business units around the world for different things we have tried.
Whenever I have any issue within my business or any of my friends have a legal question or anything like that, he is always the first person to come to mind and the first person I reach out to.
I don’t think that my life would look anything like it does without his guidance over almost the past decade, and I would say that if you are looking for guidance or support in any area from structuring a business, setting up a business unit, to any other type of advisory, I couldn’t recommend anyone higher.
Devin Hunter
CEO and Founder of Creative Concrete, Korbis, and Cyberplex
…I’ve been working with Raihan for about eight years now... his fees were very good, so we kept coming back, and little by little gained more trust, and in fact developed a good rapport.
I’d probably say Raihan is a good friend at this point, so gone from client provider, vendor, to good friend, and still a vendor, provider of advisory, legal, consulting services.
In a world where sometimes the legal professionals I am working with day to day, a phone call can be billed by the minute, and with Raihan, I always get the impression that he will be fair and generous with his time, and isn’t so concerned about billing by the minute but rather for the impact of the work he is doing.
So in short, if you are looking for someone to help, I’d highly recommend him.
Chad O'Carroll
CEO and Founder of Korea Risk Group
Multifunctional Expertise Executed Through the STRIVE™ Method
What if you could discuss ways to accelerate your funding journey regardless of where your business is today?
Pitch your business idea
Develop a high-level approach to attract funding
Trusted by Entrepreneurs, Freelancers, and Employees
Optimizing delivery while growing the business
Structuring questionnaire and action planning
Advising on freelance consultancy strategy
Coaching of business analyst and product/project manager
Whether you are pre-revenue or at 5, 6, or 7 figures of revenue, your business has its challenges and opportunities. We can go on a journey to tackle them with you.
Take your idea and turn it into an operating business with products and services the market wants to get the profit you need.
Start Your Business
Sole trader or limited company setup with partnership + shareholder + other agreements.
Structure Your Offer
Structuring of your products, services, and operations for optimal profit, effort, and customer satisfaction.
Communicate Your Offer
Creation of business plans, sales and investor presentations, websites, and social media to win over your market.
Profit From Your Offer
Developing and launching advertising, marketing, and sales campaigns that drive consistent conversions, adjusting course as needed to meet market challenges.
Take out all of the stops and take your business and yourself to the next level, positioning yourself to get what you really want.
Manage Your Team => Delegate
Taking on and restructuring relevant teams, leading and managing teams of up to 50 to run at high velocity.
Manage Your Processes => Automate
Combining business analysis + project and operations management expertise to boost workflow output.
Help You To Decide => Plan Transition
Simplifying decision-making as a right-hand advisor with insights in management, technology, law, product, and more.
Resolve Your Conflicts => Succession / Exit
Clearing the path for a smooth transition by mediating disputes towards strategic alignment and win-wins across different people and systems.
Get advice tailored to your specific business circumstances leveraging our Principal Advisor's multiple specialisms.
Advisory Board of One
Providing high-value advice combining elements of management, technology, product, law, and more.
Advisory Board Setup by a Certified Chair™
Setting up and chairing an advisory board with best practice frameworks to address top priorities.
Our results speak for themselves, but our clients have a few words to say as well.
Organization in need of strategy and legal advice
Engaged as Trusted Advisor and Virtual/Fractional CxO for multiple businesses
Negotiated deals and mediated disputes
Set up the operation of new businesses
Conducted strategic business and product planning
Recruited and managed team members
Organization in need of legal advice
Engaged as Legal Advisor
Reviewed Terms & Conditions pertaining to coaching program and book media
Clarified recommendations to be actionable
Organization in need of SaaS solution design and delivery
Engaged as Technology Advisor, providing deep technology leadership from a product, software architectural, and software delivery and maintenance perspective
Further accounted for Privacy, Security, User Experience, and Analytics into the solution
Sky News once featured us, and Raihan, discussing SEO and IT security. Through High-Velocity Startups, Raihan acted as overseer and architect for our website’s overhaul, integrating payments, SEO, GDPR compliance, and cybersecurity seamlessly. We moved from a niche startup to the dominant player in our market as a direct result.
Raihan's comprehensive, holistic, and strategic vision has been indispensable to our business's success. He achieves this through exceptional technical knowledge - in web development, cybersecurity, and legal compliance - paired with a pragmatic savvy understanding of real world business and management. Raihan is a unique talent, and we look forward to continued collaboration.”
Luke Blaxill & Shuzhi Zhou
Co-Directors of Gradfunding
Taking businesses from A to B to C with high velocity while giving back through supporting impactful causes. Giving back means volunteering for important causes. The High-Velocity Startups team consists of people dedicated not only to their clients but also to the causes closest to them.
Everything Will Be Ukraine is a volunteering initiative partnering with academic, professional, and charitable organizations to support Ukraine and those impacted by the war in Ukraine by doing the following:
Sharing stories of those impacted by aggression,
Publishing analysis on impactful organizations,
Making it easier for supporters to donate.
The organization's activities have been featured in the King's College London official student newspaper, Roar. High Velocity Startups' Principal Advisor who is also Co-Organizer of Everything Will Be Ukraine, spoke both at King's College London and provided his perspective on being hope in times of challenge for an interfaith breakfast at Carnegie Mellon University.
In the exploratory phase, High-Velocity Startups is investing in the development of a framework to provide first responders (police, fire, emergency medical services, dispatch) with the support they need from day one of entering their public service.
Our Principal Advisor is engaging in rounds of preliminary discussions with first responders, mental health professionals, and current or former government officials to finalize a high-level framework before launching a pilot program.
The High-Velocity Startups Podcast and the press and podcasts we have been featured in showcase our commitment to entrepreneurship and achieving dreams.
In the Press
The UK's most respected technology media brand, ComputerWeekly.com, provides Raihan a platform to write multiple articles on startups and security.
Sky News interviewed Raihan to discuss cybersecurity challenges that can arise when startups engage in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO).
Kim Komando, America’s Digital Goddess®, had him on her show to discuss AI, law, and ethics.
High-Velocity Startups Podcast
Our Principal Advisor, Raihan Islam, hosts the High-Velocity Startups podcast, interviewing startup founders, thought leaders, authors, and successful businesses ranging from 6 to 8 figures in annual turnover.
What makes your business high-velocity? Contact Raihan directly to express your interest in joining as a guest.
Want to join a community of like-minded entrepreneurs looking to make high-velocity moves? Learn more about our network.
Advisory Board Centre recognition
How we create value to drive your business forward
Where in business a specialist typically holds one function, such as a marketing specialist, technology specialist, HR specialist, and the list goes on, a multifunctional consultant has proven reputation in delivering results in more than one specialty.
Our Principal Advisor provides mentoring to business owners on how to tackle operational management challenges, and additionally trains key members on business modeling, risk management, and agile project management practices. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP)®.
The saying goes, "jack of all trades, master of none", implying that if you do too many different things, you can't do any of it all too well. One variant of this saying, however, includes, "but oftentimes better than master of one".
Our Principal Advisor is a solicitor qualified to practice in the laws of England & Wales, and has advised dozens of businesses worldwide as a legal advisor. Most of his clients are based in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.
Trust a multi-specialist. The Principal Advisor of High-Velocity Startups has a proven track record in desktop/web application architecture, leading large teams to execute on projects in multiple disciplines ranging from software to marketing to research, acting as the key lawyer for multiple successful organizations, and has as well acted as COO for multiple organizations. In this case, it is the multiple trades that sets the Principal Advisor apart, enabling him to deliver results by connecting the dots between multiple disciplines to deliver integrated value that manages numerous risks.
Our Principal Advisor has been a technology entrepreneur, and in this role he has worn all of the hats. Through challenges faced at a self-funded and corporate sponsorship level, he has dealt with people, process, and technology challenges, and he has also dealt with the key challenges startups face in validating their product, market, and funding route. Having acted as advisory board member to multiple startups, and having the direct skills required to implement, he and his team can accelerate startups from idea to scaleup stage, boosting their confidence to hit their next milestones.
The Principal Advisor acts as a fractional operations leader for multiple businesses with high annual turnover, working closely with the CEO or Managing Director to tackle key operational challenges and positioning the CEO / MD to go to the next level. This service is a continuous multifunctional consulting engagement, typically spanning months with flexible service levels.
Our Principal Advisor is a Certified Chair™ of the Advisory Board Centre, and he regularly speaks on advisory board topics, helping numerous organizations plan out their vision for setting up and running advisory boards. Working with company directors and startup founders, he aims to apply best practice in the utilization of advisory boards for startups and established businesses alike.
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We offer a Velocity Assessment and Strategy Sessions.