Is your startup struggling with product growing pains?

If you’re asking yourself these questions:

Which features should we build?
What should we prioritize for development?
How can we get everyone on the same page?
How can we add some order to this chaos?

Then you’ve come to the right place.

I help early-stage founders build the right thing, right now, fast.

Hire Brian Rhea. The dude is seriously creative.

—Brad Feld

Brian is a genius and should be charging $800 an hour for the thoughtfulness and creative leadership he brings to a team. For years now, he's one of my favorite designers to partner with on projects.

—Andy Stone

Brian is a superstar. He combines abilities: wicked smart, compassionate, able to distill complexity into manageable parts and to explain things in ways people understand. Brian is great with people, outstanding with tech, and a fantastic human.

—Ed Kacic

Experience

When we work together, you won't be getting a "Yes Man" or an order taker. If that's what you're looking for, you want to hire Upwork.

If you want someone with a range of valuable experiences, someone who:

Lead product at a successfully exited startup
Understands product strategy, not just project management
Knows how to run a business and puts business goals first
Has boardroom experience pitching investors
And can crank out a web app fast, then let's talk

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Clients

I’ve been fortunate to work with some incredible teams from companies that you’ll recognize:

I’ve also had the pleasure of working with companies you don’t know yet.

Folks trying to disrupt health care, change the family history industry in the US, and enable educators to create interactive teaching tools for their students.

If you're an early-stage founder, working to get your idea off of the ground, you're my people.

Brian is the most gifted UX expert with whom I have had the opportunity to work. He brings a deep and intuitive appreciation for the outcomes that a user is trying to achieve. Brian’s methodical and thoughtful approach to developing applications is rare and incredibly valuable.

—Ryan Hunter

Brian is the master of taking a fresh idea, distilling it to its core, and packaging it perfectly for users. The sense of empowerment and raw creativity he creates is something I’ll be searching for the rest of my career.

—Jeff Stephens

Brian is one of the most discriminating product professionals I know. He’s developed a methodical framework for evaluating what features should belong in a product and what features should be killed.

—Jason Hall

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Is your startup struggling with product growing pains?

I help early-stage founders build the right thing, right now, fast.

Experience

Clients

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