Maarten Jansen's Linkedin Analytics

I help early-stage startup founders and investors. Here's how. My journey in tech started early, inspired by my father who taught me to code. One of my first projects? A simple game where you had to manage a group of dinosaurs, helping them find food and avoid predators. The goal? Keep them alive and growing 🦖 That early thrill of creation stuck with me. In high school, I built software for our calculators to solve math problems. I even added a copy protection feature, so classmates had to come to me for it—my first social hack to build real connections. After college, I launched my career as a mobile app developer, working mostly with banks and large enterprises. It didn’t take long to realize that the slow-moving corporate world wasn’t for me. Things didn’t always go perfectly. During those years, I struggled with a crippling fear of failure sometimes leading to complete blackouts. Wanting to face that fear, I eventually took the ultimate risk: starting my own business. That’s how Dashdot was born—a space where I could help early-stage tech founders turn their ideas into real, market-ready products. What I do at Dashdot 🎯 As CEO, I provide early-stage startup founders and investors with hands-on guidance in: - Product strategy: Mapping out the journey from idea to launch, ensuring the product is built with market needs in mind. - Software development: Guiding the creation of a reliable, scalable product that can evolve with the growth of the business. - Go-to-market: Creating a clear plan to reach initial customers and successfully enter the market. - Founder mentorship: Providing practical advice to strengthen leadership and build a team that can scale the startup. Co-founding Webclew 🌐 I also co-founded Webclew, a bootstrapped SaaS product built at Dashdot. Webclew offers continuous, test-driven privacy auditing for websites and apps, protecting businesses from hidden data protection issues and help them prevent fines. Why I’m here on LinkedIn🌟 My mission is to guide tech founders and early-stage investors through the crucial early stages of building their product, entering the market, and achieving product-market fit. These initial steps are where so much time and money can be wasted. By sharing experience and knowledge and with some hands-on guidance, many of those costly mistakes can be avoided. So whether you're a startup founder, an investor, or simply passionate about the startup ecosystem, I’d love to connect.