Charles Hope 🧭🇮🇪
Director at Your Startup Advisor Ltd.
About Charles Hope
Director at Your Startup Advisor Ltd.
The founder in your corner who tells you straight.
I’m Charles Hope, founder of Your Startup Advisor, and a 4x founder with 26+ years of experience. Over the past 14+ years, I’ve guided 700+ startups and founders, and I currently collaborate with 20+ startup programs and VC firms globally.
My work focuses on helping founders navigate critical startup challenges. I support founders not just with strategic frameworks, but with practical, real-world insight earned through experience. I’ve experienced the ups and downs myself, including investor negotiations, product pivots, hiring decisions, and moments of burnout, so I offer empathy alongside my advice.
What makes my support different is the hands-on, personalised approach. No generic playbooks. I meet each founder where they are and help them move forward with clarity and confidence. I believe in giving before you get, and I never treat relationships as a transaction. Instead, I invest in them.
Expertise
Sessions with Charles Hope
- Mentorship Session (30 min): Mentorship session
What mentees say
“Charles gave me direct, experience-based feedback and quickly identified the real gap behind my product-strategy questions: insufficient customer discovery. He challenged my assumptions, explained what meaningful validation should look like, and left me with a clear next step. Highly valuable 30-minute session.”
“It was incredible to speak to charles, he gave me the right understanding while I wasn't understanding what I was doing wrong he gave me the right understanding about my queries.”
“Had a great session!”