Valentine Boyev

CEO at Halo Lab ✦ Helped 500+ companies to raise 💲revenue and investments through digital design and marketing → $500M+ in client total funding

With a passion for creating unique and scalable digital products, I help brands achieve their goals and enhance their online presence.

Key Achievements:

✅ $500m+ in client total funding

✅ 500+ happy clients

✅ 99+ international awards

✅ 120+ glowing reviews


I specialize in:

⤷  Web Design Services: Creating eye-catching and user-friendly websites that grab attention and drive results.

⤷  Website Development: Building strong, reliable websites that fit your business perfectly.

⤷  User Experience Design: Making sure your users have a smooth and enjoyable experience.

⤷  Brand Design: Crafting unique brand identities that really pop.

⤷  Conversion Optimization: Helping turn your visitors into loyal customers.

⤷  Digital Web Solutions: Providing all the web solutions you need in one place.

⤷  Website Redesign for Results: Giving your old website a makeover to boost performance and engagement.

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My Journey

My career began 15 years ago as a UI/UX designer, driven by a passion for creativity and beauty. For me, design is more than a job—it’s a way of life, an ever-exciting, fantastic world.

I believe in thinking outside the box and continuously renewing my knowledge. This mindset has guided me in helping people fall in love with brands and assisting agencies in winning new business.

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Halo Lab

Another passion I discovered is mentoring young designers at Halo Lab, where I help them become true professionals. Sharing my knowledge not only helps others but also fuels my own learning journey.

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Have a BIG idea in mind?

Contact me directly: inquiry@halo-lab.com

Co-Founder & CEO

Halo Lab is a full-stack design & development team.

We created digital projects almost every day since 2013.

We work with a diverse range of innovative startups and established companies. We've launched over 350 projects, helping our clients secure a total of $370M in funding. 

Some of our standout projects include:

- Kinetik: A healthcare platform with over 3,500 integrated providers.
- Bookclub24: A German online library for book collectors.
- Raven.gg: A leading brand in custom esports clothing design.
- Mighty Buildings: Pioneers in sustainable 3D-printed houses.

“How much does it cost to design a website?”

Classic answer: “It depends.”

But that’s not helpful, especially when you’re trying to plan budgets and justify ROI to your board or investors.

So let’s break it down.

1. Landing page.
$1000–$5,000
A single conversion-focused page - ideal for campaigns or product launches.
Quick, simple, measurable. But every word and visual must work perfectly together.

2. Small business website.
$5,000 – $15,000
Usually 4–6 pages (Home, Services, About, Contact, maybe a Blog).
You get custom branding, a consistent UI, and a trustworthy structure that helps people understand and act.

3. eCommerce website.
$25,000 – $100,000
Product pages, filters, checkout flow, mobile optimization.
At this range, you’re investing in UX that prevents drop-offs and builds trust.

4. SaaS website.
$75,000 – $300,000
A good SaaS site tells your story, guides visitors to demos, and aligns with your product UI.

5. Enterprise website.
$20,000–$100,000+
Think of this as a digital ecosystem - dozens of templates, multilingual layouts, case studies, and complex integrations.

A website isn’t an expense. 
It’s your digital sales team that works 24/7.
And like any high-performer, it needs training, systems, and strategy behind it.

So the next time someone asks, “How much does it cost to design a website?”
The better question is “How much revenue am I losing by not investing in a site that converts?”

You can calculate the cost of your project on our website using the smart calculator - https://lnkd.in/dZMaFF5E

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CEO @ Halo Lab ✦ Leading a 130+ design-driven B2B software company → 500+ products shipped & scaled

Website design cost

Most MVPs are built to present.

Very few are built to produce.

That’s the difference between a demo and a business.

An MVP doesn’t have to be the smallest version of your product.
An MVP is the smallest collection of components required to provide value.

→ What is the one thing a user will need to do repeatedly?
→ What elements do you need to incorporate into your design so that it runs immediately, independent of any human activity?
→ When is the moment that you will take all of the variables and make one conclusion -insight, application, analysis, and improvements?

When you look at it through this lens, the MVP is a live vehicle.
The intended result is:

1. One workflow: the only way users will need to interact with your product.
2. A single loop that will continue to serve you every time you iterate.
3. The least amount of interference to provide that measure.
4. The most convenient manner to interact with it.
5. One measure of success, not an explanation.
6. Nothing else supports those goals.

This sets the stage for how you build early traction.
You don’t do that by shipping less of your product.
You do that by shipping the right product.

Build the smallest collection of components that can generate value for others and is therefore your MVP.
That is the difference between a demo and a business.

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The MVP You Actually Need

Most leaders will agree that "good UX matters."

But few can prove it in financial terms.

That’s where growth is slowly leaking.

When design is measurable, it is also scalable.
When it is scaleable, it is a competitive advantage.

This is what the math shows:

✦ Each $1 spent on UX returns between $2 and $100. (Forrester)

✦ A load time faster by 0.1 seconds can boost conversion up to 10%. (Deloitte)

✦ 18% of customers abandon the website because the site is hard to use. Baymard Institute)

✦ Companies with design maturity outperform similar companies by 2x in revenue and shareholder returns. (McKinsey Design Index)

So why measure your UX ROI?
Because if you do not measure it, design becomes "subjective."

When you measure it, you have a lever to influence:

1. Conversion rates and average order value.
2. Operational efficiency and support costs.
3. Customer lifetime value and churn.

Here’s how leading companies do it:

1. Benchmark experience metrics – funnel conversion, time-to-task, support volume.
2. Make UX optimizations – simplify flows, reduce friction, increase clarity.
3. Measure the delta – either revenue, savings or time.
4. Quantify into dollars.

UX isn't about how good your product looks.
It's about how much it earns.
When organizations measure that, UX is no longer subjective.

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A few months ago, one of our partners came up with a challenge.

"We’ve raised our Series A, we have product-market fit, but we’re stuck in endless design-dev loops. Can we ship an MVP that investors can demo this quarter, not next?”

We delivered it in 42 days.
Here’s what actually made it possible.

1. 10-day strategy sprint.
We used a pre-built discovery framework with templates for personas, flows, and decisions on technology stacks.
We only focused on the unknowns and skipped documenting the things that the team has already validated.
The result was a 70% faster alignment phase while maintaining context.

2. Parallel design & development.
In traditional teams, design "hands off" to devs, and that is where weeks go to die.
We run parallel pipelines: The dev team starts building the architecture and reusable components in parallel.
We do design QA in a sprint and not at the end.
The result: Reduced the cycle from design → dev delay from 3 weeks to 10 days.

3. Reusable design systems.

4. Senior leads keep hands-on.
Every project has a lead designer, tech lead, and PM who stay involved daily, not just at kickoff.
You speed delivery up by removing the invisible friction between discovery, design, and dev.

At Halo Lab — Your Digital Partner, we build like product teams.

If you’re a founder racing toward your next funding milestone, DM me.

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Ghostright

Here's how this works ⬇️

⇨ Get scheduled on niche-specific podcasts every month.
⇨ Transform those conversations into targeted video content.
⇨ And attract new buyers on: LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻

Not just buyers either…
You’ll also attract:

🔸Fans
🔸Referrals
🔸Partnerships
🔸Recruits + Top Talent
🔸Public Speaking Gigs

(I’ll explain everything in our first meeting)

Second... why should you work with me?

I'm a content partner in your pocket. 

⇨ I leverage AI to help me with clerical work, ideation, note-taking, image generation, video editing, research, copywriting... and so on. Because of that, I don't need a bloated team, I am the team. That means fewer headaches for you nursing a bunch of freelancers and a consistent/fair price.
⇨ I'm not an order taker. I'm a partner in your pocket. I have a plan for everything. That not only saves you time by avoiding other people's sales funnels but additionally, gives you the answers faster so you can stay in front of your competition consistently for longer.
⇨ I'm incredibly organized, detail-oriented, and creative. I'm also a lot of fun to work with. 

More specifically... I'll help you build a content ecosystem, one that's systems-based, that's built around your busy schedule, and can be leveraged to grow your brand and your business for years to come.

Ready to discuss this?

Direct message me.👆🏻

Content Partner (click see more) 👇🏻

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Leasing Consultant

Daniel Kading Ghostwriting & Social Media Management

Freelance Ghostwriter/SM Manager

Eventi Media Inc.

I was the Head of Strategy for Eventi Media. 

This start-up out of Canada with a team from all over the world mostly focused on short-form video content for entrepreneurs, professionals, and experts in their field. 

We took 4 hours of your time and turned it into a full month of content each month on TikTok, Instagram, and, YouTube Shorts. 

I was brought onto the team to not only take over creative but also help implement LinkedIn/X (Twitter) at the time... into the company's product offering. 

In this role, I mostly focused on: 

- Scriptwriting
- Copywriting
- Ghostwriting
- Client Success
- Creative
- Analysis

And overall helping each client create the best message possible

On as many platforms as possible.

Head of Strategy

Deep Social Brands Inc.

I worked as the lead of client success. 

More specifically here's what I did for the team at DSB: 

- Worked with clients on strategy
- Strategized/created the copy for the client's content
- Worked with the editing team to ensure that vision came to life
- Assisted the production team with scheduling, filming coordination, and client deliverables
- Additionally, worked as the intermediary between clients, founders, and outside vendors 
- Additionally I helped out with management of day-to-day operations for a book of 25 + clients

Client Success Manager

I worked as the Junior Content Strategist for Deep Social Brands.

Here’s what I did in this role:

- I helped write weekly TikTok content for a book of 15-20 clients
- I also assisted with creative and copywriting
- Strategy
- Client coaching
- Personal branding
- Content creation 

I transitioned out of this role and into the Client Success Manager role after only 3 months with the company.

Content Strategist 

Bird

Fleet Manager

Grubhub

Driver

Lyft

Uber

Hooked, Inc.

I utilized my interpersonal skills, sales know-how, and best marketing practices to help businesses find new customers, through in-app geo-targeted advertising.

I accomplished this by bringing together a community of food-related businesses to help people save money on everyday purchases and created organic engagement/acquisition of new customers for clients that encouraged new/repeat traffic consistently.

More specifically I oversaw:

- Outreach (growing in-app food/drink offerings)
- Growth (bringing on new users to engage w/ restaurants) 
- Guerrilla Marketing
- Field Marketing
- Content Creation/Management 
- Copywriting 
- Acted as intermediary between clients and Customer Success Manager

I grew the app by downloads from 10.5k to 19k in a year and launched the subscription model growing it to roughly 3k in size in only a few months through events and word-of-mouth.

Additionally, I grew the content offering on the platform from 56 restaurants/bars to 78, this required some serious self-starter chops because I had no one else helping me along the way. 

I did all of the prospecting on my own, built their content after the sale, and did events with them later on. 

I grew so much through this role, not only as a salesperson but as a content creator and marketer.

Sales/Marketing Manager

High-caliber social media manager for serious brands 📡 I write like Deadpool kills... I may be super but I'm no hero ⚔️

Here's my backstory...

My name's Dan. 

I go over and above for my community and I'm very driven to help others see success on this platform. 

That's why if you DM me with a random question… I'll more than likely help you. 

Send me a cringe sales DM and I’ll delete it.
Drop too many AI-generated comments on my content…

I’ll block you... ✋🏻

I grew up at the skatepark and helping others is how you learn, especially when doing something difficult like skateboarding. 🛹

Creating content is incredibly similar and that's why I operate like this. It just feels right. 

On top of that I come from a performance poetry (slamming)🎙️background so being vulnerable in the public square is quite literally a walk in the park for me. 

I'm also a public speaker. 

I've done talks at prestigious events like the Social Media Marketing World in San Diego in '23 where I spoke in front of a 2000 + person audience.

And the Linked Innovators Summit with household names like Richard Van Der Blom that same year.

I've also been on nearly 30 podcasts.

If you need a good guest for your next episode...

Or a speaker for your next event please feel free to DM me, I'm always down. 

Come for the insights… stay for the vibes.✌️

Want to work with me? 

Read the ‘Experience’ section below. ⬇️

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