alan jones

Sydney, Australia, NSW Australia

Startup advisor, investor at BlueChilli and Startmate. Writer and speaker. Obstacle course and endurance racer.

I work with early-stage startups and new product development teams within the enterprise, on lean startup methodology, product marketing, and capital raising. I draw on hands-on experience founding and co-founding web and mobile startups, as a seed-stage investor, and in senior management roles in larger organisations including Yahoo!, News Digital Media and Microsoft. The lean startup services agency I co-founded was acquired by BlueChilli in 2013 and I am now Startup Evangelist at BlueChilli, teaching lean startup methodology, marketing, pitching and product development to the incubator's growing roster of startup entrepreneurs and corporate customers. I advise and invest directly...