One founder needs to validate demand. Another needs a repeatable sales process. Another is preparing to raise.
Lucy works alongside your programme team to identify the next milestone and deliver support founders can apply to their own companies.
Sessions are shaped around founder stage, current challenges and the evidence needed for the next decision. The right next step may be to progress, pivot, pause or stop.
Clear actions, practical resources and feedback help founders put the advice to work.
A named adviser, an agreed calendar and a clear scope, coordinated with your existing team and mentors.
For research-led and technical ventures, commercial support sits alongside scientific, clinical and regulatory expertise. The focus is customer evidence, commercial decisions and financing readiness, rather than specialist technical validation.
Lucy is a founder and operator with experience across growth strategy, fundraising preparation and the people, processes and operating systems behind execution.
She has delivered cohort support through Anglia Ruskin University, recurring advisory office hours for Cambridge Female Founders Network and fundraising guidance for founder communities.
“Lucy is bringing clarity, manageable milestones and a clear roadmap at every stage. She is widely connected to the funding and advisory ecosystems in the start-up and scale-up world.”
“Lucy is able to support the next step in their journey. Relatable and approachable, she is always willing and able to help and the students love working with her.”
“She’s really helped dispel myths, break down any confusion, and share insights that make the prospect of funding and investment less intimidating.”
“She provides clear advice, useful resources and frameworks — so you don’t stay in the knowing phase, but move to the action phase.”
Agree the priorities at the start. Build support around them. Review what founders have learned, applied and completed.
Turn broad ambitions into priorities and practical next steps.
Agreed milestones completed, actions implemented and blockers resolved.
Help founders understand their customers, sharpen their positioning and test how they will win business.
Customer evidence gathered, commercial assumptions tested and relevant sales milestones reached.
Help founders connect their market, traction, economics and funding needs into a credible investment case.
Readiness gaps addressed and agreed improvements to financial models, pitch materials and fundraising plans.
Connect participation and feedback to the work founders complete.
Engagement, homework completion, pre/post questionnaires and progress against agreed milestones.
The measures are selected for your programme. Questionnaires capture learning and confidence. Completed work provides evidence of application. Revenue, investment and jobs depend on wider factors and are considered separately from the contribution of this support. Reporting follows the package scope. The monthly programme-lead check-in and progress summary are included in Entrepreneur in Residence + Clinics.
Choose a focused workshop or an ongoing advisory presence. Each engagement starts with your founders’ needs and your programme’s priorities.
Focused support for a specific company milestone.
Topics can include customer validation, positioning, go-to-market strategy, commercial traction and fundraising readiness.
A consistent advisory presence throughout your programme.
Email support includes up to two hours of advisory work monthly. Substantial reviews and additional work are scoped separately.
Ongoing cohort support with space for individual company challenges.
Everything in Entrepreneur in Residence, plus
All packages cover one cohort of up to ten companies, delivered remotely. Monthly partnerships have a three-month initial commitment. Larger cohorts and in-person delivery are quoted separately.
Additional tailored workshops cost £1,000 each. Additional advisory work costs £150 per hour, including agreed preparation and follow-up time. Extras are agreed before delivery.
Tell me about your programme, your founders and the milestones you want to help them reach.
We’ll discuss the right support, the delivery calendar and how we’ll measure progress.
Founders entering the Growth Enterprise Acceleration Programme had different priorities and a fixed window to make progress.
Lucy delivered a structured cohort sprint, adapting a shared framework to each founder’s growth priorities and the programme’s calendar.
The contribution A consistent process founders could apply to their own companies within the cohort timeline.
Read the Anglia Ruskin University cohort case study
Members needed specific feedback on their fundraising and growth questions.
Lucy provided recurring one-to-one office hours, working from each founder’s own materials and stage of development.
The contribution A consistent Expert Advisor members could return to alongside the network’s existing programme.
Read the Cambridge Female Founders Network office-hours case study
Pre-raise founders needed clearer positioning and a consistent story across their pitch, website and materials.
Lucy delivered a workshop and panel series covering audiences, positioning and narrative, with opportunities to practise and refine the story.
The contribution Clearer messaging founders could carry into customer and investor conversations.
Read the Anglia Ruskin University Branding 101 case studyLucy provides tailored workshops, founder mentoring and Entrepreneur in Residence support for programme teams. Group office hours and optional private clinics help founders apply advice to their own companies within the agreed package scope.