Luka Kankaras

Product Growth Lead at Storylane | Consultant | Growth Mentor | PLG Advocate

Howdy!
🌏 Lived across the world working remotely (currently in Austria)

I am working as a product growth manager and consultant, eager to help companies in their quest for growth. I eat, sleep, and breathe PLG (product-led growth), no joke, I dream about A/B testing in my sleep, and even caught myself exhaling buzzwords like "activation" and "retention." :))

When I'm not busy, I devote my energy to maintaining my physical fitness. Whether it's lifting heavy weights or running, I believe that a healthy body fuels a healthy mind. Additionally, I find joy in exploring diverse cuisines and cooking up a storm in the kitchen.

I strongly believe that everyone deserves equal opportunities, as talent is talent, regardless of the location, origin, or background.

P.S. I eat hummus with a large spoon.

Mentor

A few of the things that I would love to help you with:

-> Validating the Product-Market Fit
-> Implementing or switching to Product-led Growth
-> Adding the Product-Led Sales motion
-> Activation (user onboarding, value metrics/aha moments, TTV)
-> Setting up growth loops
-> Monetization
-> Breaking into tech
-> Building personal brand

So...
Let's chat!
Book a call here - https://app.growthmentor.com/mentors/luka-kankaras-2ca031b8-e220-4a62-a71e-60fdf97bcd85

Passion4Growth

We help IT companies skyrocket their growth and sales using cutting-edge growth marketing and tactics. We've worked with companies like Passion4Tech, Botcom, ItStep, ConsultMe, Talent4Biz.

Our services are including profile optimization, page optimization, lead generation, LinkedIn positioning, growth hacking, coaching/training, community building.

Chief Executive Officer

Noverstock

Want to 3X and Automate your e-commerce business without adding new staff?

In this case, you must go to https://www.noverstock.com/ and sign up for a free trial.

Most of our clients are reporting 3 to 5X in their revenue growth and operation efficiency after adding our tool to their workflow and replacing most other tools they use. 

If you imagine a tool from which you can manage all your sales channels, products, inventory, and warehouse without needing thousands of API integrations, you are in the right place.

Business Development Consultant

Mentor the Young

Passion4Tech 

We are developing innovative tech solutions for startups and corporate clients using the latest technology trends. We have worked with companies like Consultme, ItStep, Talent4Biz, and Botcom. 

Services include Web&Mobile development, Web design, Blockchain development, and AR/VR development. 

Want to work with us? Shoot me an email: ves@passion4.tech

To schedule a meeting: https://calendly.com/passion4tech/15min

Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer

Revio - Conversational Commerce App

Revio is focused on helping businesses understand the value of integrating their marketing, sales, and customer support efforts on a single platform – WhatsApp. 

With our unique platform, companies have seen a 2.5x increase in reviews, a 15% increase in average order value, 3x retention of customers, 25% fewer abandoned carts, and a 10x higher open rate than traditional email.

Business Development Advisor

ForkPoint

Sales Manager

BelCloud Ltd

BeCloud mission is to build a better web by working closely with our clients and listening to what they’re looking for.

We offer intelligent IT solutions in modern tech companies. Modernize your IT infrastructure by bringing cloud-like speed into your workplace with enterprise-ready technologies.

Working together with our customers, we provide a 100% personalized enterprise-ready assessment solution. We enable enterprise solutions at any scale.

Business Development Partner

weiDex

WeiDex is a fully featured decentralized exchange. It guarantees the maximum standard of security, transparency, and open source logic. The main idea behind decentralized exchanges is the removal of third-party intermediaries. With their removal, decentralized exchanges don’t require any personal information such as names, addresses, and other private information. With Widex, users will enjoy a plethora of extra features not found on other exchanges such as multiple order fulfillment, Bull/Bear Bomb, Crumb Cleaner, high reward referral system airdrops, and our favorite, cross-chain transactions for Ethereum and other Smart Contract platforms and cross-chain atomic swaps.

Sales Advisor

Upwork

I was helping technology companies attract B2B clients and create long-lasting partnerships around the globe by providing them with: 

• Lead Generation 
• Business consulting services 
• Business development services 
• Sales process overview 
• Sales training

Business Development Expert 

BlockchainList

I was co-founder and CEO at BlockchainList, the biggest database in the blockchain and crypto world. For six months, we manage to create a full outsourcing ecosystem from blockchain companies, to create and select the biggest database of crypto projects and blockchain companies, close partnership contracts with companies from 4 continents and to close deals with clients from more than ten countries.  My responsibilities were: 

• Communicating, on behalf of the company, with partners, shareholders, government entities, and the public
• Leading the development of the company’s short- and long-term strategy
• Creating and implementing the company or organization’s vision and mission
• Evaluating the work of other executive leaders within the company
• Maintaining awareness of the competitive market landscape, expansion opportunities
• Setting strategic goals and making sure they are measurable and describable
• Represent our company on different events and medias
• Team management

Co-founder and CEO

Tech Founders, Let's Build a Business Development Engine That Runs on Autopilot I Currently Focused on Creating Scalable and Repeatable Sales Systems 🚀

We build business development systems for B2B companies.

Business development isn’t about blasting cold emails or chasing leads.
It’s about building a repeatable outbound engine — one that creates conversations, grows your network, and opens the right doors.

At Passion4Growth, we help B2B companies in logistics, wholesale, SaaS, and industrial sectors build and run their full business development function.

Our work focuses on:
● Positioning your brand and team on LinkedIn
● Designing outbound campaigns (cold email + LinkedIn)
● Building CRM and sales workflows that drive follow-ups and deals
● Growing a network of qualified connections and partners
● Opening doors to partnerships, referrals, and long-term growth

We don’t just generate leads.

We build the systems, infrastructure, and relationships that drive growth — sustainably and at scale.

📬 Want to see how your business development engine could actually work?
Let’s talk → www.passion4growth.biz

Ves Georgiev

The Bulgarian community at Web Summit  caught me off guard — in the best possible way.

You walk into an event of this scale expecting to disappear into the crowd.

Instead, the Bulgarians there stood out — not by volume, but by clarity, ambition, and the way they think about building globally.

I met founders, operators, product people — not the “someday” crowd, but the ones already executing, scaling, testing new markets, and solving real problems with real speed.

Zero fluff.

Zero posturing.

Just direction, action, and confidence.

What struck me most was the quality of every conversation.

Whether it was between panels, walking through the halls, at side events, or during those spontaneous 5-minute chats that turn into something bigger — the feeling was the same:
Bulgarians weren’t there trying to catch up.

They’re leading.

This isn’t just a community.

It’s an accelerant.

It pushes you, sharpens you, and makes you go home with more ambition and a clearer sense of where you want to play.

I’m grateful for everyone I met.

And even more grateful knowing this is only the beginning.

P.S. If you spot yourself in this photo — feel free to tag yourself.

Helping B2B & SaaS Leaders Build Predictable Revenue Systems → LinkedIn • Cold Email • Partnerships

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During Web Summit I ran into Petr Kaliuzhny — and this is where the story gets real.

Most people don’t see the backend of what we do at Passion4Growth. They see the results, the meetings, the pipeline. But the engine behind it? That’s where the advantage is built.

GetSales.io is the partner we trust with our clients’ LinkedIn infrastructure.

Why? 

Because they do two things better than anyone else in the space:
security and innovation.

You can’t scale outreach without both. 

You can’t win big without both.

That’s why we chose them, and we call them partners and friends.

Then Petr pulls me aside and introduces me to Alexandre Contador with Vidsell - AI Personalized Video.
Another guy who isn’t “playing the outbound game”… he’s redefining it.
You rarely meet people who actually push the industry forward.
Yesterday, I met two.

Here’s the truth: when you surround yourself with the most innovative and secure players in outbound, your service stops being “service.”

It becomes an unfair advantage for your clients.

That’s exactly what we’re building.

P.S. Petr — meeting you in person just confirmed what I already knew.
We’re going to grow this together.

When we first rolled this out for clients, it generated 126+ inbound leads in 8 weeks.

This is my no. 1 growth advantage tactic:

“Systems, not guesses.”

This is the part of your business that quietly decides whether you scale or stall.
The positioning layer.

Because most founders still:
1. Copy competitor messaging
2. Add more outreach when replies drop
3. Or worse — rebuild offers every 3 months out of panic

My best way to fix positioning fast:
- Build a simple ICP → Pain → Value Map
- Turn it into one repeatable revenue system
- Anchor all content + outreach to the same message

You don’t need to overhaul every service.
Just the core offer that drives 80% of revenue.

Makes a world of difference. 
Every client we’ve done this for saw pipelines stabilise within weeks.

Question:
Do you think this will work for you?

P.S. Repost ♻️ this so more founders stop guessing and start scaling.

If I had to build a B2B pipeline from scratch in 2026 (with $0 budget), I wouldn’t obsess over "more leads."

I would obsess over Pipeline Velocity.

Most founders think Sales = Volume.

They send 1,000 cold emails, get 1-5 replies, and lose 10 of them because they forgot to follow up on Tuesday.

That’s not sales.

That’s burning cash.

Here is the exact "Anti-Leak" protocol we use to run high-ticket campaigns:
1. The "Sharp" Offer (Positioning) Don't sell "services." 

Sell the cure to an expensive pain.

❌ "We do business development."

✅ "We help Fintech SaaS add $500k to their pipeline in 90 days."

Result: You stop competing on price.

2. The Multi-Channel Engine (Visibility)
Inbound builds trust. Outbound builds revenue. 

Combine them.

→ LinkedIn: Post 3x/week (Proof & "How-I-Did-It" breakdowns).

→ Cold Email: Trigger-based outreach (not generic blasts).

→ Social Selling: Voice DMs to warm prospects.

Result: You are everywhere your buyer is.

3. The "Zero-Leak" Backend (Execution).

This is where amateurs fail.
If you can't see your entire pipeline in one glance, you are losing revenue.

You need a rigorous CRM discipline that tells you:
• Who opened?
• Who clicked?
• Who needs a "bump" email today?

The money isn't in the first touch. It's in the 4th follow-up.

The Bottom Line

You don't rise to the level of your revenue goals.

You fall to the level of your systems.

This is the exact engine we build and run for our clients. 

No chaos. 

No missed deals. 

Just a pipeline that flows.

How many leads fell through the cracks last month?

Imagine waking up to booked calls—
from messages you were once too afraid to send.

A few months ago, I would’ve laughed at that.
DMs? Felt like spam with a profile picture.

Cold. Pushy. Robotic.
So I avoided them.
For years.

But the context changed fast.

I work with founders, VPs, execs who live in the inbox.
And every ignored DM was a missed opportunity to create real traction.
That silence? It wasn’t strategy. It was fear.

Here’s what shifted it all:

I gave myself a challenge—
10 real, human DMs per day. For 30 days.

No mass pitches. No templates.

Instead:
→ I looked at what they actually cared about
→ I referenced their content, role, wins
→ I sent voice notes. Not because it was clever—because it was me

That’s when the game flipped.

📞 6 discovery calls booked
💼 2 turned into clients
📈 And every other message taught me more than any “outreach tip” thread ever could

Why? Because this wasn’t outreach.
It was conversation.

And that insight stays with me:

→ The best “cold” messages don’t feel cold at all
→ If your DMs sound like a robot, they’ll die like one
→ Start with curiosity, not a pitch

To the founders who trusted me when I had no flashy funnel—thank you.
To this LinkedIn community that taught me how not to sound like every other sales rep—thank you.

If you’re still hesitating to send that first non-cringe DM—

Here’s your permission slip.
Real > perfect. Voice note > pitch. Start > wait.

👇 What’s the boldest DM you’ve ever sent—or wish you had? Let’s share the unfiltered stories.

If you can’t name your top 3 growth drivers right now... 
you don't have a growth strategy. 
You have a guessing game.

Most businesses treat growth like a lottery ticket:
💸 Throwing budget at ads and praying.
🔄 Chasing every trending platform or tactic.
🤞 Hoping, maybe, something sticks to the wall.

This isn't a growth strategy;
It's expensive, reactive mediocrity.

Meanwhile, your competitors are pulling ahead—not because they’re inherently smarter, but because they operate with surgical precision. 
They know what moves the needle.

The truth is 👇
Defining your real drivers is the only way to build predictable, compounding growth:
✅ Clarity: 
(It gives you a roadmap, not just a vague direction.)
✅ Efficiency: 
(You allocate time and budget only where it guarantees ROI.)
✅ Momentum:
(You stop solving today's problems and start building long-term machine.)

Stop guessing and start mapping. 
If you ignore this clarity, you'll be stuck watching the competition's graph go up 
while you keep wondering, "Why isn't ours moving?"

Question for you: What is ONE growth driver you're doubling down on in Q4? 
Share it below! 👇

Most of your strongest ideas never see daylight.

Your best posts?
Invisible to 80–90% of your network.

Not because they’re bad.
Because LinkedIn doesn’t show them to people.

Here’s the truth:
→ Creating daily isn’t the bottleneck
→ Visibility is

In week 3 of testing, we changed one thing:
We stopped creating.
We repurposed.

Same idea.
Different wrapper.

The impact was immediate:
✅ 2.3x impressions (stacked on the original)
✅ 30–40% stronger engagement
✅ Decision-makers discovering content they completely missed the first time

What worked:
→ A text post with 8,000 views → turned into a carousel → 22,000 views + 300 profile visits
→ A comment thread → reframed as a poll → 500+ responses + market data overnight

The insight:
Repurposing isn’t recycling.
Repurposing is amplification.

Change the format (text → carousel → short video → poll)
and LinkedIn gives your idea a new distribution wave.

Suddenly the 9 out of 10 people who missed it… see it.

Your best content isn’t outdated.
It’s underleveraged.

What’s one post you’ve repurposed that performed better the second time?

Most founders don’t need more ideas.
They need more leverage.

Your best posts aren’t underperforming — they’re underused.
One strong idea can fuel four high-reach formats if you know how to multiply it.

I broke down the exact system I use to turn a single winning idea into a story, a carousel, a video, and a comment thread.

If you want to stop creating endlessly and start compounding reach instead, the carousel walks you through it step by step.

👇 Swipe through and copy the system.

5 steps to Turn One Idea into 4 LinkedIn Posts

I used to be the slowdown in my own business.
Every client decision, every follow-up, every deliverable passed through me.

It felt like control.
It was actually drag.

The turning point wasn’t a hire.
It was a system.

Here’s what changed everything:
→ I documented the 20% of actions that drove 80% of outcomes
→ I automated every repeatable step before delegating anything
→ I built simple workflows the team could run without asking me
→ I removed myself from decisions where I wasn’t adding value

Once the backend ran without friction, growth stopped feeling heavy.
The team moved faster.
Clients got answers quicker.
And I finally got out of the weeds.

Most agency owners think they need more people.
What they actually need is fewer dependencies.

Your business scales the moment it stops relying on you for every next move.

👇 If you’ve ever felt like the bottleneck, what part slows you down the most?

Tomorrow isn't just Monday.
It’s the start of a 15-day sprint.

Let’s be real about December.

After the 19th, your prospects are mentally on holiday.

The "Out of Office" auto-replies are coming.

You don't have a month. You have 2 weeks.

If you spend tomorrow morning "organizing," you’ve already lost.

Amateurs react. 

Pros prepare.

Here is the Sunday Night Protocol to win the sprint:
1. Kill the Zombies

Look at your pipeline tonight.

If they haven't replied since Halloween, stop chasing them.

Archive the deal.

Focus 100% of your energy on the leads that are actually breathing.

2. Pre-Load the "Closers"

Identify the 5 deals most likely to sign before Christmas.

Draft those emails now.

Don't write them tomorrow when you're distracted. Write them tonight when it’s quiet.

3. Do the Math

Stop hoping.

"To hit goal, I need 3 deals. That means I need 10 meetings. That means I need to send X emails by Tuesday."

Anxiety is just a lack of preparation.
Clear the desk. 

Clear the mind.

Let’s finish 2025 strong.

We ride at dawn. ☕️

Be honest: Are you pushing for deals in Dec, or waiting for Jan?

Most founders think they need hours every day to grow.
That’s why they never start.

The truth is simpler:
You only need 30 minutes — if you know exactly what to do.

My daily block looks like this:
→ 10 minutes: publish or repurpose a post
→ 10 minutes: send 3 relevant DMs to ICPs
→ 10 minutes: review pipeline and follow up on warm leads

No tricks. No hacks. No overthinking.

This routine compounds faster than any “post more, hustle harder” mindset.
You stay visible.
You stay top-of-mind.
And your pipeline never goes cold.

Founder-led growth isn’t about volume.
It’s about consistency with a system that actually fits your day.

You don’t need more time.
You need a tighter loop.

👇 Want me to share the full breakdown of my daily process?

Most GTM teams are bleeding revenue in plain sight.

Not because they lack talent.
Because they’re still operating with 2020 playbooks in a 2025 AI economy.

Here’s the real story:
Your AI GTM stack is the only legal unfair advantage left.
Not because it does the job for you.
But because it gives you back the one resource your competitors can’t manufacture — time.
Time that turns into more calls, more deals, more revenue.

This is how top operators are building theirs:

ChatGPT & Custom GPTs
→ Content, research, proposals, follow-ups in minutes.
→ Reps save 75–80% of admin time. Entire workdays unlocked.

Smartlead
→ Grades your cold emails inside Gmail.
→ Shows what kills replies and what boosts them — backed by millions of data points.
→ If you’re still “writing by feel,” you’re paying a tax in lost pipeline.

Voice Notes + AI Memory
→ Record a call, get insights, summaries, posts, proposals.
→ A second brain that never forgets and never misplaces context.

Loom (AI-powered)
→ Not just prospecting videos.
→ Transcriptions, contextual insights, and personalization at scale.

Aiden (AI SDR)
→ Handles pre-qualification calls.
→ We used it for a book launch. It converted. Enough said.

Here’s the punchline:
You don’t need 100 tools.
You need 4–5 that integrate cleanly into your GTM motion.
At ~€300–€400/month, a single closed deal pays for the entire stack.

This isn’t a cost decision.
It’s a leverage decision.

And if you want to see where your own gaps are — we built a master ChatGPT prompt that runs a full AI GTM audit for your business:
→ Tech stack gaps
→ ROI mapping
→ AI opportunities (quick wins + long-term)
→ Vendor shortlist
→ Gantt/Excel roadmap

Better inputs → better outputs.
That’s the GTM rule now.

Drop a 👇 and I’ll send you the master prompt.

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