Company-building expertise and guidance through a 9-month long program with effective and gradual selection. One of the best-led events during my mentoring career.
ECONIC Accelerator
Budapest, Hungary
Transform your business into anorganically growing organisation
Stop feeling stuck or overwhelmed if you're not making 7–8 figures, yet.
Get clarity, actionplan, and operational support to grow your business.
Get your challenges cracked and get your team flying without your constant effort.
Get it Done-With-You in 90–180 days.
Craft your exit strategy in hours, not in months.
Stop your suffering today!
10+ accelerators' trust
Sessions rated 9.5/10. Helped most with clarity into GTM next steps, challenging approach, and giving homework. Among the top 3 mentors for the day.
Red Brick Accelerator
Tampere, Finland
50+ mentors supported 500+ students forming 100+ startups in three weeks. Worked with ~20 teams transforming early ideas into solid concepts in 24 hours.
European Innovation Academy
Porto, Portugal
Finnish accelerator formed by Aalto University. By far their choice of startups was the strongest ever at this pre-seed stage.
KIUAS accelerator
Espoo, Finland
Structured programs, intensive mentoring, and funding while fostering vibrant startup communities. Impressive list of experienced mentors.
Nordic Startup Ventures
Tampere, Finland
Multiple acceleration programs as mentee, then mentor with SME scale-ups, startups and the local Shark Tank program Ajujaht.
Enterprise Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
Technology transfer organisation focused on innovation and research, creating sustainable ecosystems using innovative digital technologies.
Power HUB accelerator
Prague, Czechia
Mentored Estonian tourism sector enterprises to improve their businesses following Business Canvas methodology.
BDA Consulting
Tallinn, Estonia
VVT hired me to mentor a business unit in Estonian Aviation Network Service. A 6-month mentoring programme that showed how much I had learnt over 20 years as a business owner, board member, strategy designer and coach.
Agentuur Velström Vallner Tohver
Tallinn, Estonia
Hub where actors across various industries can work together to effect change through innovative digital technologies.
Startup Reaktor
Go-To-Market Accelerator, Romania
Equity-free investment-readiness program preparing high-potential CEE and Ukrainian founders for global expansion and fundraising. Alumni have collectively raised $50M+ since 2022.
1991 Accelerator
Kyiv, Ukraine / CEE
Our Ideal Client Profile
The ideal client (ICP) is: corporate business unit head, SME owner, startup founder.
From pivoting the new concept to scaling to €10M. We've worked with organisations making over €40M per year.
Mental health and time are the most valuable resources. Let's make sense, crack bottlenecks, clarify the chaos, and build the business strategy you didn't envision.
Then we fix your team and make them glow.
How much longer will you yourself limit your business while others move ahead?
- Are you continuing to do business as usual, intending to retire in 83 years? Seriously?
- Long workdays are enjoyable due to social life and free eco-friendly meals?
- People savouring life, playing golf and travelling do things differently? Can you afford the same?
- Is it acceptable if employees or partners take over your business — and what justifies the risk?
- Setting a growth goal of 5% per year and deeming it acceptable, given…
- Work overload? Lack of motivation, discipline or knowledge?
Why struggle alone?
Unlock your business's true potential.
Mikk has faced the same challenges as a founder — now he helps businesses like yours move forward faster. Whether you're launching your first product or scaling to €10M, we'll help you overcome bottlenecks, find clarity, and achieve sustainable growth.
Discover how we can transform you
What say those who have worked with Mikk
"In addition to experience and brains you are extremely concrete and specific — that helps to get to the core faster in everything. You actually get the topic and understand the concept of the project, because most people don't see the full picture."
Sirli Vaher
Fujitsu Estonia, Product Owner
"Mikk was our mentor in startup program Ajujaht. At first the most critical one. Thanks to his advice and feedback we have raised our product engagement significantly. His practical experience made his advice immediately implementable."
Tauri Laane
Task Messenger, CEO
"Mikk reminded me of the simple things we tend to forget — the goals we set for ourselves and the pursuit of them. Self-discipline, growth, practical techniques, and the ability to think bigger. I sincerely recommend!"
Taavo Annus
Bidrento, CEO
"Mikk helped me realise how to communicate with potential investors and select the best ones. After the first session I implemented crucial changes into our business model and updated our pitch."
Inga Erm
Embrace, manager
"Mikk helped me off the traditional marketing train. With a brief chat, without knowing the industry, he opened a new perspective and a way to communicate with our customers."
Aleksander Tomas Vassiljev
Harbour AR, CEO
"Mikk found the core problems and left me with a bunch of questions I wasn't willing to answer. No clichés — just practical sessions that led me to my billion-dollar idea."
Sigrid Hänni
Solis BioDyne, Marketing manager
"Mikk's help was invaluable in shaping our strategy. In 20 minutes he gave us better feedback than what we had gotten from 50 pitchings."
Madis Kirsman
Founder & CEO of AVAR
"When I was wrestling with my ego about selling parts of my shares cheaply, Mikk said — just sell them. That money is more than 0. If he hadn't said that, maybe we'd still be arguing."
Animesh Bajpai
Trashify CEO
Why do you keep on fussing?
Why we know
As a solo founder Mikk often navigated uncertainty alone, wishing he had a mentor to guide him and avoid unnecessary risks. He learned that discovering your path takes effort, introspection, and someone to ask the hard questions you avoid.
Mikk doesn't believe in "fake it till you make it". Instead, he stands for understanding, executing, and delivering results with pride. Act, win, celebrate, improve, repeat — that's the approach.
How we know
Great businesses solve real problems, often born from frustration or unmet needs. Success lies in doing it better and faster — but copying others without understanding their edge can backfire.
Mikk has seen high-demand businesses struggle to monetise and knows the key questions: Where's the money? How much? At what cost? For how long? Through his own costly missteps, he's learned to turn failures into lessons and limitations into opportunities.
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Don't fuss over nothing — choose your direction today, not tomorrow!
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About Mikk Orglaan
- • Started 20+ businesses
- • Done 4 exits (different types)
- • First successful exit in 5 years
- • Ousted from 2 startups
- • In B2B SaaS business 1998–2019
- • Made hundreds of millions for clients
- • Active mentor in accelerators
- • Angel investor
- • Founding partner in VC
- • Supervisory board member
- • B2B sales trainer / mentor / coach
- • Delivered 1000+ projects
- • Digitised 500+ companies
- • Hosted own conferences 9 years
- • On stage since 1990
- • In marketing since 1992
- • In sales since 1994
- • Mentoring since 2008
- • Certified coaching since 2020
- • Business advisor since 2019
- • Managed €20M international project in 2023
He has triumphed over a major Swedish bank and faced challenges with deceitful executive judges. His educational journey includes studies in informatics, a BA in business administration, and an MA in marketing.
Passionate about smart systems, psychology and grand setups, he devotes his free time to mountains, trekking, snowboarding, diving and friends. Outspoken and paranoid optimist, pragmatic, with zero tolerance for fakes.
Leading his software development companies for 20 years, he saved over 5.2 million hours for clients, and generated €10 million of EBITDA in a 30-minute workshop.
Mentoring under Enterprise Estonia projects, investing and coaching startups in ESTBAN and other international accelerators and EU programmes. Physically residing in the Tallinn–Helsinki timezone, his impact extends far beyond — over the internet.
About Dr. Gürsel İlipinar
Education
- • Bachelor's in Economics (University of Istanbul)
- • MBA in Marketing & Information Systems (Georgia State University)
- • PhD in Marketing (ESADE Business School)
- • Teaches brand management and digital marketing at EBS
- • Research focus: design thinking and branding
Expertise
- • Luxury fashion branding, design, innovation and entrepreneurship
- • 15+ years in international business
- • Gunes Insurance, Eximbank, Georgia's Dept. of Trade, AT&T
Dr. Gürsel İlipinar holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Istanbul, an MBA in Marketing and Information Systems from Georgia State University, and a PhD in Marketing from ESADE Business School. His career spans over 15 years in international business with focus on education, telecommunications, insurance and banking sectors.
At EBS he teaches brand management, services marketing, digital marketing and international marketing. His research explores design thinking and the intersection between branding and design.
