Teija Bean (she/her)
Head of Product Design, Forum Ventures, AI Studio
Teija is the Head of Product Design at Forum Ventures’ AI Studio, where she works with early-stage founders to shape and launch AI-driven SaaS products. With a background in leading a product agency and building across AI, B2B, and Web3, she brings both creative depth and operational clarity to the 0-to-1 process.
She specializes in helping teams define the right MVPs, build conviction early, and avoid overbuilding too soon. Her recent work focuses on using AI to accelerate prototyping, validate assumptions faster, and rethink how product teams work in an AI-powered world.
Outside of Forum, she mentors founders, advises startups, and is passionate about building products that are thoughtful, useful, and ready for scale.
Sessions
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: MVP & First Product
Build the minimum product that validates your core idea, know when to launch versus when to keep iterating, and avoid the trap of over-engineering before you have customers. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Brand Building & Positioning
Create competitive moats through strong brand positioning, shape customer perception deliberately rather than letting it happen by default, and position yourself in the market in ways that make competitors' strengths irrelevant. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Customer Success & Retention
Reduce churn by understanding why customers leave before they do, increase expansion revenue from existing customers, build customer success functions that prevent problems rather than just fix them, turn satisfied customers into champions who sell for you, and make retention more profitable than acquisition. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Bootstrapping & Capital Efficiency
Build a profitable company by doing more with less, learn survival strategies for growing without VC money, and develop the discipline that capital efficiency demands. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Brand Building & Positioning
Create competitive moats through strong brand positioning, shape customer perception deliberately rather than letting it happen by default, and position yourself in the market in ways that make competitors' strengths irrelevant. See More.