Advisory · Fractional leadership · Intelligence
Helping founders and startups move from pitch to playbook — with advisory, fractional leadership, and data subscriptions built for hardware and physical-product companies.
Hands-on advisory, fractional executive leadership, and proprietary market intelligence — designed to accelerate growth with rapid, actionable insight.
From pitch deck to go-to-market playbook, we work alongside founders to sharpen strategy, validate the business model, and prepare for fundraising, launch, and scale. Actionable guidance in weeks, not months.
Learn more →Senior strategy and corp dev leadership without the full-time hire — partnerships, M&A, and growth initiatives, advised and executed as an embedded member of your team.
Learn more →Financial planning and analysis, fundraising preparation, cash-flow management, pricing, and investor reporting — the discipline of a seasoned CFO at a fraction of the cost.
Learn more →Commercialization cost intelligence
Stop guessing what it costs to bring your product to market. Benchmarked cost data from 500+ tracked vendors and 100+ real project benchmarks across product development, patents, prototyping, certification, and manufacturing — with profile-specific estimates in ninety seconds.
Hardware startup intelligence
Know which physical-product startups need help next. Patents, grants, crowdfunding, accelerators, and university innovation turned into actionable opportunities across the US and Canada — each startup placed on a nine-stage journey with an explainable Opportunity Score. Plans from $79/month; free for startups.
Libbie Mill Partners helps founders and startups move from pitch to playbook. We combine hands-on advisory and fractional executive leadership with two proprietary intelligence platforms — FounderPath and StartupIntelligenceSignals — to give physical-product companies the strategy, leadership, and data they need to get to market faster.
Whether you need a sharper pitch, a fractional CFO or business development leader, or benchmarked cost and market intelligence, we meet you where you are and move you to what's next.
Chip has spent his career in strategy and corporate development — leading partnerships, M&A, and growth initiatives for technology and manufacturing companies, and advising hardware founders on the path from idea to market. He founded Libbie Mill Partners to put that experience to work for more than one company at a time.
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