Wednesday Founder Office Hours: GTM, Business Strategy, Product & Everything
Building in a vacuum is hard.
Whether you're navigating a pivot or preparing for your raise, show up with a specific problem and leave with a clearer path forward.
🧭 Date/Time: EVERY Wed 12 pm EST / 9 am PST
We're running this as a weekly series starting December 2025. Even if the Luma end-date constraints look specific, we’ll be here every week!
Every Wednesday, the Advisory team at Bouken Capital, a San Francisco-based Venture Capital firm, volunteers to organize an hour for founders to get "investor-lens" perspectives without the pressure of a pitch meeting.
📣 It covers general pitch deck advice, GTM strategy questions, fundraising tactics, or just a quick conversation to sanity-check what you’re working on.
The Format: This is an open, informal session. Come prepared with a specific question or a slide you want to share. Drop in for 5 minutes or stay the full hour. Completely informal and founder-focused.
Who you'll meet: you’ll have the opportunity to interface with our team across Ventures and Advisory arms, alongside seasoned operators and external specialists, founders and investors from our San Francisco ecosystem.
What we are open to hearing:
✅ Pitch Deck Roasts: Real talk on what investors actually think about slides.
✅ GTM Strategy: Tactics for your first $1M ARR or scaling beyond.
✅ Fundraising Tactics: How to run a tight process and manage your cap table.
✅ Sanity Checks: A safe space to verify your "crazy" ideas with SF-based experts.
Organized by Dr. Sam Nehme: Head of Advisory at Bouken Capital, leading the Bouken Advisors, and former DeepTech Founder. Sam is an experienced startup advisor known for guiding startups through strategy, partnerships, and growth.
About Us
Chimera Community builds a dynamic founder network through strategic partnerships, platform solutions, and curated events, successfully connecting innovators with the necessary resources, insights, and each other. Join our Collaborative founder Community here.
Bouken Capital is a Silicon Valley–based Venture Capital firm running Bouken Ventures and Bouken Advisory, accelerating startup growth through smart capital deployment, deep advisory, and community. Investment and Advisory teams consist of a team of battle-tested startup founders, senior leaders, executives and top-tier talent from companies like Intel, Google, McKinsey, Meta, TikTok, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Bouken team holds advanced degrees from institutions including Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
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