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Growth & Operations

Develop your company’s global growth by implementing strategies, processes, and tactics with an engineered and systematic approach

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Solving your Challenges is our Priority

No Repeatable Growth Engine

Many startups rely on one-off campaigns or silver bullet strategies, lacking a systematic engine that can be scaled and repeated over time

Our Approach

We design a structured growth engine combining sales, marketing, analytics, and engineering tools into a scalable and repeatable system

Weak Growth Channel Focus

Testing every possible growth channel without clear priorities wastes resources, slows learning, and limits opportunities to scale

Our Approach

We identify and rank the most promising traction channels, running fast Minimum Viable Market Tests (MVTs) to validate and later scale what delivers results

Growth Metrics Blind Spots

Without the right KPIs and tracking in place, growth activities become reactive, hard to measure, and often lead to missed opportunities

Our Approach

We define and implement the most relevant growth KPIs, giving full visibility and control over performance at every stage of the customer funnel.

Inefficient Unintegrated Processes

Unconnected tools, manual workflows, and siloed data make it difficult to get deep insights or repeat successes at scale

Our Approach

We create integrated, automated growth systems that connect execution, data, and measurement, reducing friction and enabling faster and more controlled scaling.

Are we a right fit for you?

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We partner with ambitious seed to Series A-C tech startups and scaleups to help them grow faster, scale smarter, and expand into global markets.
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Our support covers the key challenges founders face, like go-to-market strategy, growth execution, operational excellence, investment readiness, and fundraising.
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Engagements range from quick, high-value 1:1 sessions and structured mentoring to deep operational involvement as part of your team.

Full Stack Growth Support - From a Single Chat to a Fractional Leader

⚡ Growth Sparks

Quick Sessions. Big Impact

Growth Sparks are focused, high-value sessions designed to help you move quickly through specific challenges.
Whether you’re validating an idea, refining positioning, troubleshooting acquisition, or prioritizing next steps, these conversations are built to deliver immediate clarity.

Format:

  • 30- or 60-minute 1:1 sessions
  • Booked directly with our senior team or trusted experts
  • Buy one-off sessions or discounted bundles
  • Schedule at your convenience via calendar links

Expected Results:

  • At least 3 implementable action points during each session tailored to your current situation
  • Clarity on a key decision, strategy, or challenge you’re facing
  • Relevant tools, templates, or frameworks shared during or after the session
  • Real-world examples or case studies to support your next steps
  • Optional follow-up recommendations for further support or direction

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⚡ Growth Sparks

Quick Sessions. Big Impact

Growth Sparks are focused, high-value sessions designed to help you move quickly through specific challenges.
Whether you’re validating an idea, refining positioning, troubleshooting acquisition, or prioritizing next steps, these conversations are built to deliver immediate clarity.

Format:

  • 30- or 60-minute 1:1 sessions
  • Booked directly with our senior team or trusted experts
  • Buy one-off sessions or discounted bundles
  • Schedule at your convenience via calendar links

Expected Results:

  • At least 3 implementable action points during each session tailored to your current situation
  • Clarity on a key decision, strategy, or challenge you’re facing
  • Relevant tools, templates, or frameworks shared during or after the session
  • Real-world examples or case studies to support your next steps
  • Optional follow-up recommendations for further support or direction

🔍 Growth Audit

Full check on your growth setup

Growth Audit is a strategic diagnostic of your company’s current setup—across growth, operations, positioning, and internal processes. It’s designed to uncover what’s working, what’s holding you back, and what to focus on next to build a solid foundation for scaling.

Format:

  • One-off strategic audit, tailored to your current stage and model
  • Based on interviews, data review, and/or key materials
  • Available as a light version (topline assessment) or deep-dive
  • Delivered as a written report and/or live session with key takeaways

Expected Results:

  • Clear overview of strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in your current growth setup
  • Actionable recommendations across strategy, marketing, sales, product, operations, including examples from our work.
  • Identification of key bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments
  • Insights on market positioning, team structure, and growth potential
  • Prioritized next steps to improve traction, scale, or decision-making

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🔍 Growth Audit

Full check on your growth setup

Growth Audit is a strategic diagnostic of your company’s current setup—across growth, operations, positioning, and internal processes. It’s designed to uncover what’s working, what’s holding you back, and what to focus on next to build a solid foundation for scaling.

Format:

  • One-off strategic audit, tailored to your current stage and model
  • Based on interviews, data review, and/or key materials
  • Available as a light version (topline assessment) or deep-dive
  • Delivered as a written report and/or live session with key takeaways

Expected Results:

  • Clear overview of strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in your current growth setup
  • Actionable recommendations across strategy, marketing, sales, product, operations, including examples from our work.
  • Identification of key bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or misalignments
  • Insights on market positioning, team structure, and growth potential
  • Prioritized next steps to improve traction, scale, or decision-making

🤝 Growth Mentorship

Ongoing expert support & guidance

Growth Mentorship is designed to give founders and teams consistent, lightweight access to expert insight as they navigate uncertainty and scale. It’s the ideal middle ground between one-off calls and full-time engagements, by offering a trusted partner to challenge thinking, provide perspective, and unlock growth.

Formats:

  • Ongoing support via monthly check-ins, async comms, or ad hoc calls
  • Flexible cadence tailored to your pace and needs (min. 2 hours / month)
  • Access to one or more mentors based on expertise required
  • Option to focus on specific areas (e.g., GTM, packaging, pricing, operations, processes, tactics, automations)

Expected Results:

  • At least 3 implementable action points during each session tailored to your current situation
  • A sounding board for decisions, challenges, and new opportunities
  • Access to curated resources, intros, tools, and frameworks
  • Help maintaining focus and momentum across growth priorities
  • A trusted external perspective to help avoid blind spots and missteps

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🤝 Growth Mentorship

Ongoing expert support & guidance

Growth Mentorship is designed to give founders and teams consistent, lightweight access to expert insight as they navigate uncertainty and scale. It’s the ideal middle ground between one-off calls and full-time engagements—offering a trusted partner to challenge thinking, provide perspective, and unlock growth.

Format:

  • Ongoing support via monthly check-ins, async comms, or ad hoc calls
  • Flexible cadence tailored to your pace and needs (min. 2 hours / month)
  • Access to one or more mentors based on expertise required
  • Option to focus on specific areas (e.g., GTM, packaging, pricing, operations, processes, tactics, automations)

Expected Results:

  • At least 3 implementable action points during each session tailored to your current situation
  • A sounding board for decisions, challenges, and new opportunities
  • Access to curated resources, intros, tools, and frameworks
  • Help maintaining focus and momentum across growth priorities
  • A trusted external perspective to help avoid blind spots and missteps

🛠️ Growth Execution

Hands-on help to get things done

Growth Execution is for startups that need more than advice. They need skilled hands to help implement, optimize, and move fast. Whether you’re launching a campaign, improving conversion, fixing retention, or setting up growth infrastructure, we step in as doers, not just advisors.

Format:

  • Project-based or sprint-style execution support
  • Hands-on collaboration with your team across marketing, ops, or product
  • Flexible scope depending on your growth priorities
  • Best if we worked together via Sparks, Audit or Mentorship before

Expected Results:

  • Rapid execution of growth-critical initiatives with expert input
  • Tangible outputs (e.g., campaigns, funnels, automations, workflows)
  • Improved performance across acquisition, activation, or retention
  • Internal capabilities built through side-by-side work
  • We built assets to stay with the company, we are not a pure “agency” and we want to train you to handle things in the future.

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🛠️ Growth Execution

Hands-on help to get things done

Growth Execution is for startups that need more than advice. They need skilled hands to help implement, optimize, and move fast. Whether you’re launching a campaign, improving conversion, fixing retention, or setting up growth infrastructure, we step in as doers, not just advisors.

Format:

  • Project-based or sprint-style execution support
  • Hands-on collaboration with your team across marketing, ops, or product
  • Flexible scope depending on your growth priorities
  • Best if we worked together via Sparks, Audit or Mentorship before

Expected Results:

  • Rapid execution of growth-critical initiatives with expert input
  • Tangible outputs (e.g., campaigns, funnels, automations, workflows)
  • Improved performance across acquisition, activation, or retention
  • Internal capabilities built through side-by-side work
  • We built assets to stay with the company, we are not a pure “agency” and we want to train you to handle things in the future.

♾️ Growth as a Service (GaaS)

Monthly on-demand full-stack growth service

Growth as a Service (GaaS) is a flexible way to add a growth team to your startup without the overhead of building one internally. We elaborated a 3-step agile Growth Engine Framework with a 6-step steps reiterative process. We help with strategy, execution, and optimization across marketing, operations, and revenue, tailored to your stage and goals.

Format:

  • Monthly engagement with a dedicated growth lead (and supporting team if needed)
  • Scope flexes across strategy, execution, and process improvement
  • Can be focused (e.g., acquisition, ops setup) or full-stack growth support
  • Pricing aligns to startups’ business models combining retainer fees and success fees

Expected Results:

  • Consistent progress on key growth and operational priorities
  • Immediate access to an efficient team without hiring full-time roles or going through long onboarding cycles
  • Increased efficiency through better systems, automations, and processes
  • Measurable results across all growth levers depending on the goals set by both teams
  • A scalable model that adapts as your company evolves

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♾️ Growth as a Service (GaaS)

Monthly on-demand full-stack growth service

Growth as a Service (GaaS) is a flexible way to add a growth team to your startup without the overhead of building one internally. We elaborated a 3-step agile Growth Engine Framework with a 6-step steps reiterative process. We help with strategy, execution, and optimization across marketing, operations, and revenue, tailored to your stage and goals.

Format:

  • Monthly engagement with a dedicated growth lead (and supporting team if needed)
  • Scope flexes across strategy, execution, and process improvement
  • Can be focused (e.g., acquisition, ops setup) or full-stack growth support
  • Pricing aligns to startups’ business models combining retainer fees and success fees

Expected Results:

  • Consistent progress on key growth and operational priorities
  • Immediate access to an efficient team without hiring full-time roles or going through long onboarding cycles
  • Increased efficiency through better systems, automations, and processes
  • Measurable results across all growth levers depending on the goals set by both teams
  • A scalable model that adapts as your company evolves

👔 Fractional CxO

CRO/COO-level leader in your team

Fractional CxO brings senior leadership into your company without the commitment of a full-time hire. Acting as your part-time CRO, COO, or growth-focused executive, we integrate with your team to provide the strategic direction and operational oversight needed to accelerate growth and streamline operations.

Format:

  • Part-time leadership engagement with flexible term engagements, from a few months to longer-term partnerships
  • Dedicated executive-level support focused on growth and operations
  • Can lead specific functions (sales, marketing, ops) or drive cross-team initiatives

Expected Results:

  • Hitting short term and long term targets in growth and operations
  • Professionalization of processes, metrics, and operational structure
  • Strategic but also operational support, training of team members or support in hiring FTE, freelancers, or agencies
  • Fully independent, not tied to any channel/tactic, software supplier, tool or brand
  • Enhanced ability to raise capital, hit growth targets, and manage complexity

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Fractional CxO

CRO/COO-level leader in your team

Fractional CxO brings senior leadership into your company without the commitment of a full-time hire. Acting as your part-time CRO, COO, or growth-focused executive, we integrate with your team to provide the strategic direction and operational oversight needed to accelerate growth and streamline operations.

Format:

  • Part-time leadership engagement with flexible term engagements, from a few months to longer-term partnerships
  • Dedicated executive-level support focused on growth and operations
  • Can lead specific functions (sales, marketing, ops) or drive cross-team initiatives

Expected Results:

  • Hitting short term and long term targets in growth and operations
  • Professionalization of processes, metrics, and operational structure
  • Strategic but also operational support, training of team members or support in hiring FTE, freelancers, or agencies
  • Fully independent, not tied to any channel/tactic, software supplier, tool or brand
  • Enhanced ability to raise capital, hit growth targets, and manage complexity

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Read our Client Stories & Case Studies

Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Operations
We supported AppQuality (now unguess) in experimenting, validating, and scaling new, profitable, and repeatable Growth Activities with an 1000% ROI
#B2B SaaS #Europe
We supported Milan-based AppQuality (now unguess), a digital crowdtesting company, in expanding their Growth Stack by experimenting, validating, and scaling new Growth Activities, especially related to new industries and new geographical markets, reaching an annual 1000% ROI. We ran our Growth Engine defining and prioritizing the best growth tactics to be run with Minimum Viable Tests (MVTs).
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Operations
We supported Blinkist to experiment and validate a low-touch and enterprise B2B and B2B2C offering to complement their B2C business model
#Consumer Apps #Europe
We helped Berlin-based Blinkist to build a minimum viable test to validate if there is an opportunity to create a value proposition that low-touch and enterprise B2B would buy and implement in their organizations. We found plenty of validations, with some enterprise companies buying big bulks of licenses and striking some great B2B2B partnerships.
Tech Startups & Scaleups
Growth & Operations
We supported Wideo to reduce their churn rate by 50% and to maximize value creation via CRO through advanced customer segmentation techniques.
#Consumer SaaS #Latin America
We supported San Francisco-based Wideo, a DIY multimedia and video editing SaaS, in reducing their very unstable churn rate, which was creating problems in the sustainability and predictability of their growth. We worked on customer segmentation identifying the ones finding the most value from the solution and focusing pricing and product features. This decreased churn and increased CLTV
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These messages keep our motivation high and our team going strong

Patrick Pedevilla
Co-Founder & CEO, Seventwenty by Airhelmet

Without Fast Forward Advisors we would’ve not been able to find the project partners and raise the seed funding. We would certainly not be here today

Werner Rainer
Former President of the Board, Health Robotics

Working with FFA enabled us to fully understand which path we could take in terms of venture capital or private equity investments and were very supportive along the whole process

Niklas Jansen
Co-Founder & CPO, Blinkist

Working with FFA enabled us to understand the complexities and opportunities of a B2B / B2B2C strategy, which at that time was out of our reach

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In every startup conference, you will find a panel about startup growth challenges and secret recipes.. If we ask you to spell out a growth strategy for B2B SaaS companies starting with the letters G R O W T H,
Tools & Resources - Growth Tactics
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Is Growth Hacking just another BuzzWord?
Growth Hacking, a word that has been used to sell "silver bullet"-like zero cost and huge conversion heavy sales and marketing strategies. Read here what Growth Hacking is and why we like a Growth Engineering concept more.
Insights & Comments - Growth Hacking
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5 Guerrilla Marketing Ideas To Impress Potential Customers
As business moves online, every company tends to focus its marketing strategy and efforts across digital channels, saturating them and creating strong competition and pressure to keep great performance. At this point offline channels and guerrilla marketing can be relevant
Insights & Comments - Growth Tactics
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FAQ

NO, we are not an agency, our interest is not to win you over for the long-term locking you up with our services for very long time and locking you out from the best practices.

Actually, we rather want to build systems and assets for you, and train your own people or help you hire the right people after validating/accelerating in a new market or with a new channel. Our interest is your long-term success in which you can win without (consistent) external support, so that we can focus on new clients and portfolio companies.

After you apply to any of the programs we will review the materials and come back if that is a possibility, and also how aggressive our business could be on the commercial activities.

We don’t have a fixed price list, because we work across different regions and ecosystems. Please apply to the specific service and provide information and we come back with our proposal/price list.

In general lines we try to be aggressive on our business models, asking for a mix of retainer fees and success fees (which could include rev-share, commissions on the value created, stock options, or a mix of these), so we can align with our clients’ interests.

TL:DR No!

We are working with complex products and services mainly in B2B, with great go-to-market (GTM) and systems/operations challenges. At this point growth is much more deep than just a pure top-of-the-funnel lead generation or any particular action on the full funnel.

We will have some sort of retainer and success fee attached to solving certain growth challenges, especially for commercially driven activities.

Also, we are 100% independent and don’t monetize from placing any affiliates, tools, SaaS, ecc, so we have to cover service costs directly with our clients.