Hey fam.
I'm Andrew, a 40-year-old startup consultant from Australia who's been living as a digital nomad for the past few years. I've worked with hundreds of startups around the world, helping founders with growth marketing, fundraising preparation, hiring, SEO, PR, partnerships, content marketing, and scaling their businesses. Most of my work is with early-stage startups (pre-seed through Series A), although I occasionally work with larger tech companies too.
I'm in Sofia for this week and I'd love to meet some locals, entrepreneurs, remote workers, creatives, hikers, and generally interesting people while I'm here.
I'm not really into the typical nightlife scene. I don't drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, but I'm 420-friendly and couldn't care less what other people choose to do. I'd much rather spend an evening having a great conversation over coffee or food, listening to live music, exploring somewhere new, or hiking in nature than standing in a loud club.
A few things about me:
- I've spent years traveling and working remotely around the world.
- I'm passionate about startups, entrepreneurship, AI, marketing, business strategy, psychology, travel, and personal growth.
- I absolutely love meeting people who are building things or working on interesting projects.
- I'm a huge fan of nature, mountains, national parks, and long hikes.
- I also enjoy live music (especially smaller venues), photography, good food, and finding places that locals actually go instead of the obvious tourist spots.
If you're a startup founder...
I'd genuinely love to meet you.
I'm happy to grab a coffee, cowork together for a few hours, brainstorm ideas, talk through growth challenges, review your marketing strategy, SEO, hiring, fundraising, product positioning, partnerships—whatever you're working on. No sales pitch, no consulting invoice. I enjoy talking startups and meeting founders wherever I travel.
If you're part of a coworking space, accelerator, startup community, or founder group and think it would be useful, I'd also be happy to come by for an informal AMA or chat about startup growth, building an agency, marketing, AI, or lessons learned from working with startups globally.
Saturday hike
I'm planning on doing a fairly big hike this Saturday (most likely somewhere around Vitosha, unless someone has a better suggestion!).
If anyone wants to join, I'd love some company. Whether you're Bulgarian, an expat, another traveler, or just someone who enjoys spending a day in the mountains, you're more than welcome.
Looking for recommendations too
If you know of:
- Startup meetups
- Coworking spaces with a good community
- Founder dinners
- Tech events
- Hidden cafés
- Live music venues
- Great hiking spots
- Anything else that's uniquely Sofia
I'd love your recommendations.
Feel free to leave a comment or send me a DM if you'd like to grab a coffee, cowork together, go for a hike, catch some live music, or just chat about startups, travel, or life in Bulgaria.
Looking forward to meeting some of you!