Eric Rafat - Community Builder, Startup Founder, and SEO consultant

Let’s Grow That Site Traffic Out of the Galaxy

Hey there, I’m Eric. I’m a startup founder, community builder, and SEO consultant. I love building communities, covering startup stories, and helping founders build, grow, and scale their businesses. I’m also a professional tennis player and a weekend chess player!🎾 ♜

Startup Speaker Eric Rafat

Growth Marketing Passion Obsession

Growth Marketing & SEO

Anyone can get a product out there, but distribution wins customers!

PR & Media

Press is an absolute must for startups. No need to struggle. I will help you tell your startup story on a global scale.

Site Development

Looking to a build a website that gets you more customers? I can help.

Ventures 🚀

Startup Speaker Talked At

Startup Speaker University of Toronto
Startup Speaker University of Waterloo
Startup Speaker at Humber College
Startup Speaker Laurier University
Startup Speaker at Western University
Startup Speaker Sheridan College

Growth Experiments on Fire

Growth is the Name of the Game.

FoundersBeta Community Platform

Startup Speaker at
– Harvard University April 29, 2022
– Humber College April 7, 2021
– Startup Judge Cohort Pitch Sheridan College and UTM, August 25, 2020
– And more at Ryerson, University of Toronto, and Communitech

Founders Community

FoundersBeta started as a small community for founders and has grown to become one of the largest online communities for founders, innovators, and talent.

Let’s bring in the Heat for Your Website 🔥

01

Audience

What is the goal and aspiration of your customers?

02

Growth Experimentation

If you’re company is not running at least one experiment per week, it’s over.

03

Scale Up

Double down on what works. Let’s bring thousands of users to your platform!

Founder Notes ✍🏻

The Best MVP is a Startup Newsletter

If you're thinking about building a product, consider building an audience first. Previously, I wrote about how, whenever we have an idea, we tend to dive in and start coding immediately. I vividly remember this from our first startup, where we focused on building "yet another killer feature," which led us nowhere. We had to shift our mentality. The best...

Bye Bye Lean Startup: The Modern Way to Build a Startup

Times on the internet have changed. Getting a website up and running in the 1990s used to cost thousands of dollars, and you needed a large team to make anything functional. Fast forward to today—with the advancement of CMS and popular platforms like WordPress—getting a website up has become incredibly cheap. There are also no-code platforms that are extremely useful...

Rethinking Startup Press: Why We need Better Coverage

Getting press for an early-stage startup is an absolute must, but as many founders will tell you, the chances of getting covered are slim unless you’ve raised a big round. Press plays a key role in the growth of a startup, whether it's for gaining more exposure, helping with recruitment, or providing a boost to SEO. Unfortunately, the current press...

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