Anna Furmanov

Furmanov Marketing Consulting

Positioning and messaging that's backed by customer research. 

Most positioning and messaging is driven by assumptions (Assumption Marketing). FMC is a customer insights and strategy firm that helps B2B startups translate their confusing business jargon into simple and clear positioning and messaging that your buyers will understand.

So you get:

👉 deeper engagement with customers and prospects
👉 consistent, memorable messaging
👉 increased inbound to demos
👉 better sales conversations
👉 differentiated positioning
👉 increased word of mouth
👉 faster sales cycle
👉 closed deals

Founder

Building With Buyers

47k+ downloads + rated Top 5% podcast globally + very close to 5 stars

Host

Navattic

Navattic lets people get hands-on with your product earlier in the buying journey through no-code interactive demos.

Marketing Advisor

Riverside.fm

Riverside is your all-in-one podcast and video platform, and they just launched Magic Clips which is their AI powered video clips maker for social media.

Ambassador

Alumni Ventures

Limited Partner

MKT1

FuelK12

Helping edtech companies build scalable revenue engines to drive meaningful growth. Customers include Seesaw, Branching Minds, Pear Deck, Yoga Ed, Thimble, Graspable Math, Marker Learning and more.

Marketing Instructor

Forum Ventures

Startup Mentor

SignalFire

GrowthMentor

Growth is tough, and sometimes, you just want to talk to someone. Get unstuck quickly with 1:1 advice from vetted startup mentors. Check out my 5-Star reviews: https://app.growthmentor.com/mentors/anna-furmanov

Mentor

I start up marketing at startups using the MaaS Method | host of Modern Startup Marketing podcast

Most early stage startups face the same problem: 

People who need your product don’t understand what it is or why it matters, so they end up not caring.

Why?

We stuff our websites with business jargon to sound like we know what we're doing. We assume we know our customers and how to talk to them about our differentiating value. We end up over-explaining what the product can do (company-focused) instead of what problem it solves (buyer-focused).

And as the company grows, the focus moves further away from customers and more towards building the product and sales activities. As a founder, you FEEL like you've gotten plenty of customer signal already.

Big mistake.

The most successful startups are *obsessed* with their customers.

We are dismissing our customers, yet customers are the key to unlocking the next round of growth for our company. They bought your product when nobody else would. Do you know what makes them unique and what motivated them to buy?

A superficial understanding of your customers causes buyer indifference, team frustration, and slow growth. I help solve these problems by conducting and analyzing customer conversations to create positioning and messaging your buyers will understand and act on.

So you get:

👉 deeper engagement with customers and prospects
👉 consistent, memorable messaging
👉 increased inbound to demos
👉 better sales conversations
👉 differentiated positioning
👉 increased word of mouth
👉 closed deals

★★★★★
“We had a 4X increase in sales and I 100% attribute that to those learnings I had with Anna.”
—Founder, EdLight

★★★★★
“Highly recommend Anna to any startup looking to up their marketing game."
—Head of Growth, Navattic

★★★★★
"I especially appreciated the work she did up front to get to know us, our product, and our customers. Strong recommend for any startup." 
—Founder, Copybara

Book a call here: https://calendly.com/furmanovmarketing/45min

Helping venture-backed startup founders and marketing leaders implement marketing programs that drive revenue. Industries include: e-commerce, ed tech, higher ed tech, food tech, security tech, sales tech, martech, innovation tech, developer tech and more.

Whenever you’re ready, there are 3 ways I can help you:

👉🏻 Startup marketing strategy, execution and advising. I’m like your fractional Head of Marketing (25+ happy clients and mentees) >> www.furmanovmarketing.com

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Andrew Capland

Camp Solo

Camp Solo is a private community for solopreneurs to exchange ideas, share experiences and resources, and find real support through the highs and lows of running your own business - campsolo.co

Co-Founder

Delivering Value

I help heads of growth accelerate their careers with 1:1 coaching, and I help early-stage SaaS teams scale as a product-led growth advisor.

Services include:
* 1:1 coaching for heads of growth
* PLG advising for SaaS teams

I specialize in helping clients who work at small to mid-sized SaaS companies (usually starting around $6-$10 million in ARR). If that sounds like you, send me a message!

I've supported clients from amazing companies like:
copy.ai
Notion
Sprout Social
Pendo
Lusha
Whimsical
Motion

Delivering Value Podcast

Candid conversations with growth leaders about the setbacks, feedback, and self-doubt that almost derailed their careers - and instead shaped their path to success.

No growth tactics, playbooks, or guides. Just raw stories from the trenches and lessons to help others encountering the same challenges.

Subscribe 👇

Podcast Host

Proof-of-Skill

Product-led Growth Advisor

Protocols

Advisor

Happeo

Product-led growth advisor

Contingent

Advisor: product-led growth

Expel

Avrios

Product-led growth Advisor

Coach for heads of growth | PLG advisor | former growth @ Postscript, Wistia, HubSpot

After coaching more than 50 clients, it's become clear... Most Growth Teams face the same struggles:

You’re not always sure which lever to pull to drive meaningful impact.

You don’t have a repeatable operating system, so there's no structured process for prioritizing experiments, aligning across teams, or scaling execution

You're spending too much time convincing instead of executing. You're constantly selling ideas internally, securing resources, and fighting for buy-in.

Your role feels misunderstood because your boss has never done your job, and leadership sees the numbers but doesn’t always recognize the full impact of growth.

You’re ready for the next level but don’t have a clear roadmap to get there.

I'm Andrew

I’m the former growth lead at two high-volume PLG businesses: Director of Growth at Wistia, and Head of Growth at Postscript.

I’ve been where you are.

I’ve built and scaled growth teams from scratch, run hundreds of experiments, and made every mistake in the book. I know what "good" looks like, and I know how overwhelming it can feel without mentorship from someone who's done your job.

Now, I take everything I've learned to help other growth leaders increase their impact and influence.

☎️ Book a call to work with me ☎️
https://deliveringvalue.co/get-started

Delivering Value offers coaching & advising for product-led growth teams.

Because scaling a product-led business is hard. It's a really effective go-to market model, when done right. But, it’s still relatively new and most companies don’t have someone with extensive PLG experience. 

That means you spend a lot of time and money making mistakes trying to figure it out. Or, you feel overwhelmed by all the content out there, trying to teach yourself.

That’s were the idea of Delivering Value was born. To help early-stage tech companies save time by avoiding common mistakes, learn proven frameworks & methods instead of trying to figure it out themselves, & ultimately grow faster.

Services include:
* 1:1 coaching for heads of growth
* PLG advising for SaaS teams
* Digital products for the growth community

I specialize in helping clients who work at small to mid-sized SaaS companies (usually starting around $8-$10 million in ARR), not tech unicorns. If that sounds like you, send me a message!

I'm helping a bunch of people update their resumes. And I'm seeing a new format that’s working right now - it's different from the advice we've been told for years.

The old way was all about results:

- took [thing] from A --> B 
- increased conversion rate of [thing] Z%
- scaled to $XX,XXX MRR

Good stuff for sure.

But without the context of the business (size, stage, gtm model) the reader can't tell if those results are a single, triple, or a home run.

And the same title in growth can mean five different things depending the stuff above too. 

That is why strong candidates keep getting overlooked.

After working with several growth leaders on their job searches in 2025, I started testing a different way to structure their resumes.

What emerged from that experimentation became the CATER framework.

(ironic because everyone says to “cater” your resume to the role. But this actually helps you cater it to what you actually did.)

Here's the gist:

Use one bullet for each
- context: what kind of company you were at (size, stage, GTM)

- accountability / ownership: the KPIs you were responsible for + the surface area you owned

- team: who you managed, how the team changed, who you worked with

- execution + results: what you did and how it went (most resumes start here… which is why they fall flat)

Then you can go deeper with 3-4 bullets for the E/R part of the acronym.

Once you stack your resume in this order, it reads like a cohesive story - and it allows your future interviewers to ask much better questions. 

Curious if anyone else has tried this. It’s been working really well for the folks I’m helping.

ps - I just did a deep dive about this on substack + youtube: https://lnkd.in/edC7NWWB

Coach for heads of growth | PLG advisor | Former 2x growth lead (Wistia, Postscript) | Co-Founder Camp Solo | Host Delivering Value Pod 🎙️

I’m 39. Have 2 kiddos. And run two businesses from Massachusetts 👋

Before this, I spent 12 years growing B2B SaaS companies like Wistia, Postscript, and HubSpot.

Now, I'm growing my own stuff.

Delivering Value (my core business):
- 1:1 coaching for people who lead growth teams
- advising product-led companies on scaling systems
- podcast where growth leaders share their toughest career moments

Camp Solo (my second business):
- private community for ambitious solopreneurs
- members share wins, losses, and build together

Here’s what that looks like day to day 👇

5:45am - wake-up to screaming 17mo old
6-8 am - get everyone fed, dressed, and out the door
9-10 am - workout and shower
10–2 pm - coaching & advisory calls
2–5 pm - creative work and business ops
5:30 - 8 - dinner and family time

Organic content is my growth engine. I:

- share lessons from my 13 yrs in the tenches
- give insights from 85+ coaching clients
- build in public, even though my college friends think its cringy

Running solo looks polished from the outside, but I ride a roller coaster of emotions depending on the moment.

Still, I wouldn’t trade it.

That's a small tax to pay for the freedom of being an entrepreneur.

ps - if you're thinking of going solo, drop your questions below. Happy to share what I’ve learned so far.

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If you like to…

explain your job to everyone you work with (again and again)
constantly beg for resources (and get told “not this quarter”)
feel like you’re the only one prioritizing the business over personal agendas

…might I recommend a career in growth?

The great paradox of career growth: 
People who get promoted fastest tend to do less, not more.

- they're not volunteering for every new opportunity
- they're not working the most hours
- they're not the most responsive

They’re choosing the right opportunities. And making sure everyone knows WHY those choices matter.

I’ve seen this pattern again and again.

First as someone who climbed from IC to Head of Growth.
Now as a coach to dozens of growth leaders doing the same.

Promotions don’t go to the hardest workers doing the most units of work.
(at least not once you reach Director or VP level)

They go to the people who create the most impact. 

I recorded an 11-minute video breaking down the four habits that separate high performers from everyone else, including how to:

align perfectly with your boss
protect your focus
manage up like a pro
make your work visible (without playing politics)

watch it here: 
https://lnkd.in/evABPJ8T

Signup page: your trial expires in 14 days
In-app banner: your trial expires in 14 days
Welcome email: your trial expires in 14 days
The SDR: “you have 14 days to enjoy your trial”

Someone, writing into support:

“Hey, how long is the trial?”

I’ve made all of these mistakes as a former 2x head of growth:

- I created sweet dashboards nobody used.
- I kept weak experiments alive way too long.
- I over-engineered work that could’ve been quick/scrappy.
- I wasted time on projects when I should have pushed back instead.
- I scoped work to the resources I had (instead of advocating for the resources I really needed)

Each seemed small at the time. 

But over months and years, these little mistakes add up. Learning to spot (and fix) them was a turning point. 

Sometimes the most important lessons aren’t the latest tactics, channels, or frameworks.

What’s the small mistake you wish you had caught earlier?

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