Acceleration Co-op

Starting and building a successful new business venture is hard work. It's generally a race to complete the next big value milestone before you run out of capital. Or before a competitor eats your lunch.
 
Our goal is to give you an "unfair competitive advantage".
 
The Challenges
Fine tuning your business concept
Global (Business) Advisory Board
Advice from experts in business, markets and technology
Acceleration
 

The Challenges

First comes the business concept for the new venture. Then come these daunting challenges:

• raising equity capital, or finding the best ways to access project finance;
• refining the product ideas and developing the product;
• developing the sort of deep market insights that are needed to launch a ground breaking new product;
• learning how to overcome the regulatory hurdles;
• becoming expert at interacting with potential end-customers; and
• knowing who the potential strategic partners are and how to approach them.

Often, startup management teams are tackling some (perhaps all) of these challenges for the first time. A particularly common example is the team which is very strong technically, but does not include anyone who has the sort of deep industry domain expertise that comes from living and breathing in that specific vertical for a decade or two. In situations like these, the right advice at the right time from a “been there, done that” expert can potentially save years of time and $millions. 
 

Fine tuning your business concept

Would you like to get a review of the business concept or business plan for your new venture from a community of 60+ domain experts, with skills in your specific market segment; in finance and capital raising; in product development; and in creating new businesses?
Feedback: your business concept or plan
 

Global (Business) Advisory Board

For leaders of new ventures who want better insight into what is going on in their target market, and who want to be able to interact periodically with senior individuals with deep, specific market expertise. And who want to get their focused, thoughtful attention, rather than just a casual response. 
 
Create a business advisory board made up of global luminaries and experts with deep industry domain expertise in the fields that matter for your business. These advisors can help accelerate progress, and avoid various mistakes along the path from startup to profitable business.
Global Advisory Board
 

Advice from experts in business, markets and technology

Our expert crowd has lots of experience in business, specific market verticals, and technology. You can interact with the expert crowd in a variety of ways, ranging from crowd interactions to one-on-one dialogs.
Learn more about interactions with our expert crowd 
 

Acceleration program

Accelerate your new venture with our value-milestone-based approach. Coming soon.