Focus on what matters most for your startup
…and reduce the operational stress
Hi, I’m Florin Lazar!
For the past four years, I’ve been working as the Chief Operating Officer (and sometimes co-founder) for several startups in the UK, France, and Romania, acting as the Founder & CEO’s right hand.
I’ve been part of startups in different industries, stages, and in distributed teams. Each experience has been unique, but they all have one thing in common: the founder’s life is busy and stressful.
Founders have to handle everything—vision, sales, funding, partnerships, legal, accounting, you name it. They’re constantly working to bring money into the team, which means there’s a continuous level of stress. Meanwhile, it’s tough for them to focus on “internal operations,” making sure everyone’s delivering according to the plan and feeling good in such a high-pressure environment.
In short, founders have way too many balls in the air.
I also get that hiring a full-time COO can be a big expense if a startup doesn’t have a stable budget for at least 12 months or isn’t ready for rapid scaling.
At the same time, what I’ve learned along the way is that most startups need some organization, a focus on the right priorities, and structure.
With all that in mind, I created this page, where my goal is to help startups grow to the point where they can bring on a full-time COO.
How do I do that? By offering specific operational services designed for startups at different stages.
I’m an engineer by degree and human-centered by nature, adding my best value in Operations, Organizational Culture, and Recruiting as I can easily understand what people need to do their best work.
I love hearing big ideas that need to scale, and I’m passionate about working with visionary leaders who need a structured mind by their side.
If you’re looking to take your business to the next level, let’s chat and see how we can work together!
Annual turnover generated for one of the startups.
The smallest team was from 2 to 6 members, and the biggest team was from 15+ to 30+ members.
Designing the hiring process, creating the ideal candidate profile (skills and personality), and the interview script. Part of them, I hired myself.
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I worked with Florin on several B2B outreach and lead generation projects to help streamline the back end of our service offering. While working together, Florin proved to be very proficient in setting up operations, SOP's and other processes, while always looking for new tech solutions to improve the processes each week. If you need help with setting up digital operations for an agency, martech or growing startup company speak with Florin and see how he can help.
I’ve worked with Florin for a couple of years and it was a pleasure. His communication and organizational skills helped us achieve great results. His adaptability and openness to new ideas helped us find solutions to many challenges.
Florin saved our future! Looking at our workflow, that he has designed, I'm really confident in succeeding and scaling our business in 2022 - we wouldn't have done that alone! We needed a very clear, simple to use workflow to set and manage multitude of creative projects. Over the past year my team really struggled to get ahed of deadlines and take full control of the processes. Having clear SOPs, we were desperate for a better system with solid workflow and clear overview for the whole team. Florin was exactly what we were looking for - someone with a fresh look to come in, evaluate our processes and design a dashboard that is easy to manage for the whole team going forward. He has always been very attentive, on point and kept full focus during the calls. Thanks to that. I felt like he really understood our problems and his proposed solutions were exactly what we needed. Thanks you for the great work!
This is the section where we can connect. I would like to learn more about your business, what do you want to achieve, and what are your challenges at the moment.
If you find my experience and my services useful for your business, let’s get in touch. Pick a channel, I recommend you to book a call directly, and let’s build together!
lazar.florinc@gmail.com