Founder · System Builder · Revenue Architect · AI Product Manager
Founder, Full-Stack Marketer, AI Product Manager, Revenue Architect. I've founded businesses, and created new revenue streams for existing businesses. I've developed products solo and inside of big companies. Part of a 6-person team that achieved an 8-figure exit, then the 1st business hire for a company that eventually raised a $100M Series C at $600M+ valuation. Now I take businesses from chaos to architecture.
Founder·Builder·Fractional CRO
Ways to work together
If you're building a company and need a revenue architect — someone who's done it at the $100M raise stage and the 8-figure exit stage — NV is the right partner to make it happen. Take the Free Quiz for a scorecard & tailored suggestions.
See Naughton Ventures →If you're a business owner thinking about selling, stepping back, or finally building something that doesn't depend on you — this practice is built for exactly this moment. Start with the free Exit-Ready Score: four pillars, four minutes, and your biggest gaps with a first move on each.
Take the Exit-Ready Score →Free marketing & growth systems advice for startup founders and small business owners from underrepresented backgrounds. No invoice, ever. Expert help with no strings attached.
Visit FoundersRise →None of these fit? If you want to work directly with Tim on a fixed-scope systems engagement, see the Exit-Ready Install.
What I do
01 NEWSLETTER
Weekly dispatches on building businesses that run without you. Architecture, systems, exits, and the honest version of operator life. Short, specific, useful.
02 STARTUP ADVISORY
Advising for startup Founders, CROs, CMOs. Topics include: Full-stack marketing, Product-led growth, Data Monetization, Launching an Ad Platform, & more.
03 CONSULTING
Four systems installed one phase at a time — Growth, Operations, Finance, Continuity. You approve each phase before it starts and pay as you go. Direct engagement with Tim, from $12,000.
The thesis
Small businesses and startups have a lot of the same problems: running on the founder's willpower, 16-hour days, missing architecture. I've done it myself — until more recently I learned how to flip the script.
The businesses that scale aren't the ones with the most motivated founders. They're the ones with the clearest repeatable processes. The marketing engine that runs whether the founder shows up or not. The ops stack that captures institutional knowledge instead of storing it in someone's head. The acquisition model that compounds quietly in the background while everyone else chases the next growth hack.
I didn't discover this in a book. I discovered it the hard way: by building businesses & new revenue streams, watching them crack under their own weight, and then going back to install the architecture that should have been there from the start.
"Agencies want to sell services. I want to give you the answers to the test."Read Architecture over Effort →
Recent writing
You're not failing because you don't work hard enough. You're failing because you haven't built the system that makes hard work optional.
Read →Every agency pitch sounds the same. Here's what they're not telling you about why it takes so long.
Read →Most founders think about exits as a finish line. The ones who actually exit treat it as a design constraint from day one.
Read →Marketing Systems Quiz
5 questions. 2 minutes. An honest read on whether your marketing is an asset or a liability.
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I've raised cash, built revenue streams & businesses, exited, and helped another scale to $600M. I've been the Founder, the CFO, the 1st hire, and the consultant who comes in to help.
What I've learned: almost every business problem is a systems problem. And almost every systems problem is fixable in 90 days if you know what you're looking at.
The newsletter
Architecture over Effort — delivered Friday mornings. No fluff. I write it for operators, not audiences.
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