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At Funnel House our highest priority is helping our clients achieve their goals and accelerate growth. Our customized, hands-on approach ensures you are getting a partner that really understands your business and is focusing on what’s best for you and your customers. 


Funnel House is made up of leaders, operators, founders, advisors, and investors. With more than 35 years of experience with startups, we understand the challenges you’re facing. No matter your stage or scale, Funnel House can help you level up and achieve that next milestone.

Mitch Treu

Co-founder, Partner


  • 6 years of startup and software advising 
  • 12 prior years in B2B and B2B2C sales and business development
  • Growth leadership to 50+ startups
  • Sold first startup in 18 months

With unmatched founder empathy, Mitch brings 15+ years as a founder, advisor, and early-stage employee with several Silicon Prairie startups. His experience has led him to be multidisciplinary in sales, marketing, revenue operations, and product management. 

Mike Durand

Co-founder, Partner


  • 10+ years of sales leadership experience
  • SMB & Enterprise sales and sales leadership experience
  • Co-founded the Groupon Sales University (GSU) program
  • SaaS and marketplace sales experience

Mike started his career in sales at a hypergrowth startup. This is where he learned his passion for sales, sales leadership and startups. Over the years he held a number of sales leadership roles at Groupon, Inc., Toast, Inc. and Mercato, Inc and produced millions of dollars in net-new revenue. He focuses on leading and developing highly efficient sales teams while leveraging data to tell the story and identify opportunities.

Jeff Milewski

Co-founder, Partner


  • Instructor of Fintech 
  • Research economist and data scientist
  • Early-stage investor

Jeff is an instructor at Creighton University in the Department of Economics and Finance. He’s currently helping build the new fintech program, teaching economics, finance, and blockchain. His research focuses on crypto economics and financial data science. Jeff previously served as research director of an economics research institute in the college. He also consults on economic policy and investment management.

Aaron Hill

Co-founder, Partner


Aaron Hill is an experienced Revenue Leader, Operator, and Consultant. 


Working as an employee and previous founder, Aaron has a diverse and successful background with industry experience, including Managerial Consulting, Software (SaaS), Hospitality, Real Estate, Residential Services, and Finance. 


Working as a consultant, he has helped companies across an even broader range of industries, including those in which he operated, plus e-commerce, construction, cryptocurrency, cybersecurity, human resources consulting, location-based ads/messaging, boardroom management, procurement, and project management, to name a few.


He has facilitated strategic migrations across a wide range of companies, including those transitioning from perpetual sales and service business models to subscription or consumption-based models.


The companies he has helped include the earliest stages of prototyped and seed-funded start-ups, boot-strapped scale-ups, venture-backed companies preparing for a funding round, companies owned by private equity, and publicly traded companies.


Aaron’s expertise in marketing, demand generation, prospecting, opportunity management, implementation, and customer success provides strategic guidance for companies seeking improved recurring revenue to achieve hypergrowth.


He is based in Lincoln, NE, where he resides with his wife of 13 years and 4 children.


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