Get Unstuck: Live Office Hours With Iterative’s Partners
Get Unstuck: Live Office Hours With Iterative’s Partners
Imagine having a coach who has founded and built successful companies before. This coach works on your startup's biggest problems with you — GTM, fundraising, hiring, product — and helps you unblock to grow faster.
At Iterative, we call our approach to solving these problems office hours.
What is Office Hours?
If your startup is solving an important problem with a significantly better solution, it should grow very fast. The reality, however, is that most startups don't — they're held back by what we call ‘bugs’.
Office hours are our primary way to help companies debug.
Normally, this is just for founders in our program. For this event, we’re opening it up to the public.
Bring your biggest challenge and get candid, tactical advice from people who’ve built and scaled companies before. Think of it as having another experienced co-founder in your corner — for free.
What You'll Get
Your Challenge, Unblocked: Real advice from people who’ve been in the trenches.
Debug Together: We may not have all the answers, but we’ll help you get unstuck.
Founder Community: Meet other early-stage founders going through the same grind (many of our attendees end up friends IRL).
Meet Your Partners
Aaron Yip – Co-founder of Issa & repeat Visiting Partner at Iterative
Serial founder with one exit and guest lecturer at Stanford
Launched an app to 100k waitlist in a month, expanded to 20+ countries
Coached 100+ startups through their toughest challenges
Derry Sakti – Previous Co-founder of Ula & repeat Visiting Partner at Iterative
Grew Ula into a $200M business, scaling topline 200x
Served 200K+ retailers in Indonesia with 70% tech adoption in 2 years
Former P&G leader overseeing a >$200M+ business across Indonesia
Cathy Guo – Ex-founder turned VC, now Head of Investments at Iterative
Founded Dunya Labs, a dev tools startup, right after college
Previously Head of Portfolio at Antler India, helping founders at the earliest stages
Known at Iterative as the go-to partner when founders hit a tough wall
How It Works
You can join as a Participant or an Observer.
🎤 Participants – Share your biggest startup challenge live (2 minutes max) and get advice directly from our partners.
Register – Submit your challenge when you sign up.
Get Selected – If chosen, you’ll share live.
Get Feedback – Partners will give advice and ask clarifying questions.
👀 Observers – Want to take a backseat? No problem. Sit in, learn from real cases, and take away frameworks you can apply immediately.
Agenda
6:00 PM — Join the Zoom early
6:10 PM — Introductions
6:20 PM — Live Office Hours
6:50 PM — Wrap-up
7:00 PM — Event ends
About Iterative
Iterative was founded for founders, by founders. We are an accelerator program focused exclusively on Southeast Asia. No fees, an upfront investment of up to USD $500K and 3 months of targeted growth and fundraising support, which culminates in a Demo Day to a network of 400+ investors. Apply for the program.
Since we’ve been founded in 2020, we’ve invested in 100+ companies and 200+ founders. These companies have gone on to raise $178M and are collectively worth over $1.2B.
Our mission is to increase the GDP of Southeast Asia through entrepreneurship. To do that, we need to (1) make entrepreneurship more accessible to more people and (2) give founders the tools and support to be successful. As part of this mission, we run events like this to help founders solve their biggest problems.
About Iterative Startup Academy
This event is brought to you by Startup Academy — as part of our mission, we run events like this to help you on everything you need to know to be a successful founder.
Startup Academy is a free collection of courses, guides and templates on how to build startups in Southeast Asia. Whether you’re exploring an idea or scaling up, we’re here to support your journey.
Sign up for Startup Academy here and learn from those who have done it before and been successful.