Fundraising Coaching
For founders who think they need capital, and the 90% who actually need a sharper business strategy.
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CEO Coaching · Fundraising · Strategy
Helping businesses figure out what they don't see for themselves.
Most founders who come asking for help raising money don't actually need more money. They need a sharper game plan. BEST Coaches finds it, helps you build it, and the capital follows.
Coaching services
What we work on with you.
Fundraising is the lead specialty. Strategy is where most engagements end up. The other four are where the long-term work compounds.
Business Strategy Coaching
Test the idea. Sharpen the model. Build the game plan you can hold yourself to.
Read more →General Business Coaching
Cash flow. Team. Sales. AI-augmented operations. The unsexy work that decides who survives.
Read more →Sustainable Business Coaching
Profitable sustainability. Triple-bottom-line strategy. Government programs and ESG capital.
Read more →Alternative Energy Business Coaching
Customer identification, fundraising, and verticals for energy founders.
Read more →Plant-Based Foods Business Coaching
Climate-positioned food businesses: model, message, and money.
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The core insight
If you came here looking for money, start with this.
"90% of the founders who come to me asking for help raising capital don't actually need capital. They need a sharper read on what the capital is supposed to solve. We sort that out first."
Stefan Doering, Founder
It's the most expensive mistake in founder-land. Raising a round to paper over a strategy gap. BEST Coaches has been on both sides of that trade. The fundraising specialty exists because the strategy work is the real product.
See If You Qualify-
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You don't need the round. The model is the problem. The deck just dresses it up.
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You need the round, but not yet. Capital follows traction. We build the traction first.
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You need the round, and you're ready. We sharpen the story, pick the room, and rehearse the close.
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You're not raising, and you're stuck. We work the game plan that gets you unstuck, fast.
The lived experience behind the practice
This is what you're getting.
Seven companies. One bankruptcy. Two businesses he shut down before they took him under. A hit-and-run that took out walking, hearing, and sight, and nearly his life. A company that closed when 9/11 disrupted its funding. None of it broke the discipline. All of it shows up in the room.
Selected client results
What changed when the practice got involved.
Alternative Energy · NYC
Tripled revenue at Bright Power.
Jeff Perlman's energy-efficiency and renewable energy company tripled top-line revenue in twelve months working with BEST Coaches The unlock was buyer-side, not product-side.
PR & Media · Brooklyn
Highest months in 30 years at Shore Fire Media.
Marilyn Laverty founded Shore Fire in 1990. Three months into the coaching engagement, the company posted the highest client-fee months in its history. "And the amazing thing is how much fun we're having."
Consulting · Queens
300% sales lift, 450% profit lift at Netsperts.
Riccardo Mavrovich watched his sales climb 300%. Then the coaching pivoted to margin and lifted profit 450% while working fewer hours. The strategy moved the margin, not the volume.
Sustainable Manufacturing
Ecologic Solutions. Best for the World.
A long-time coaching client who built a triple-bottom-line manufacturing company recognized by B Lab as "Best for the World. Environment Impact." Sustainability that paid for itself.
In their words
The kind of feedback that keeps the practice running.
BEST Coaches is one of the best investments I made in the early stages of the company. Each session unearthed jewels of wisdom and clarity and steered us toward more lucrative deals.
Personal-brand founder
Vancouver, BC
Name withheld at the founder's preference.
Name withheld at the founder's preference.
Stefan Doering is an entrepreneur's entrepreneur. He showed me how to increase my profit by 450% and work less.
Riccardo Mavrovich
CEO & Founder, Netsperts Inc. · Queens, NY
You have been a wellspring of help to me. Your lessons and words of wisdom are engrained in me forever.
Richard Rubenstein
President, Rubenstein Public Relations · NY
From the blog
Where the practice thinks out loud.
Frameworks, fundraising patterns, sustainability strategy, and the stories behind twenty-five-plus years of coaching. Mostly written by Stefan Doering. Edited for honesty, not polish.