Helping Entrepreneurs Succeed
Entrepreneurship is a key economic activity, yet getting funded is significant challenge for women entrepreneurs and other underserved populations.
Mentors too, drawn from the community, lack support and a curriculum increase their skills - leading to higher levels of engagement, and startup founder performance and success.
Startup Investors Lab provides a train-the-trainer model, and shares insights for how investors think - and builds entrepreneurial skills and confidence through active coaching and mentoring.
Startup founders are mentored directly - by an innovative, multi-expert review panel - to prepare a professional presentation to obtain funding and in-kind support from investors, and demonstrating viable business and social impact outcomes.
Visit: http://StartupInvestorsLab.com
Mentors too, drawn from the community, lack support and a curriculum increase their skills - leading to higher levels of engagement, and startup founder performance and success.
Startup Investors Lab provides a train-the-trainer model, and shares insights for how investors think - and builds entrepreneurial skills and confidence through active coaching and mentoring.
Startup founders are mentored directly - by an innovative, multi-expert review panel - to prepare a professional presentation to obtain funding and in-kind support from investors, and demonstrating viable business and social impact outcomes.
Visit: http://StartupInvestorsLab.com
Kristine Mascione, CEO, Vondern
TESTIMONIAL
The Startup Investors Lab team immediately made me feel comfortable and welcomed.
The Pre-Screening Group gave me a LOT of great feedback from a variety of perspectives.
I received me valuable insights into how investors think.
Now, I'm definitely thinking bigger!
The Pre-Screening Group gave me a LOT of great feedback from a variety of perspectives.
I received me valuable insights into how investors think.
Now, I'm definitely thinking bigger!
- Kristine Mascione, Founder & CEO, Vondern
Entrepreneurship + Sustainable Business Models
Ushani Design, Sri Lanka
\We offer specialized expertise in helping organizations, startups and entrepreneurs in discover new and sustainable business models to increase impact and diversify revenue sources.
Our partnership with Customer Discovery Pros provides consulting, mentoring, coaching and training to support entrepreneurship development and capacity-building. Randy Fisher is a top expert in Customer Discovery, and is a mentor with the highly-successful US National Science Foundation's Innovation (i-Corps) program.
Our partnership with Customer Discovery Pros provides consulting, mentoring, coaching and training to support entrepreneurship development and capacity-building. Randy Fisher is a top expert in Customer Discovery, and is a mentor with the highly-successful US National Science Foundation's Innovation (i-Corps) program.
Women Entrepreneurs: Skills Development and Capacity-Building, Sri Lanka
Employing Rural Women Weavers in Sri Lanka
Read the Ushani Design, Sri Lanka case study, in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (a UN agency) on the Customer Discovery Pros website.
Ushani Hewage, a top textile designer in Sri Lanka pivoted her technology innovation to a sustainable business model employing rural women weavers and paying them higher wages to produce Sri Lankan traditional handloom designs.
Visit the Ushani Design website.
Ushani Hewage, a top textile designer in Sri Lanka pivoted her technology innovation to a sustainable business model employing rural women weavers and paying them higher wages to produce Sri Lankan traditional handloom designs.
Visit the Ushani Design website.
Women Entrepreneurs: Business Growth and Economic Development, Samoa
Mailelani Skincare & Body Lotions, Samoa
In partnership with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO, a UN agency), Randy Fisher and John Fraser provided business growth, customer discovery and sales / revenue consulting to help woman-owned Mailelani of Samoa, expand to new markets in Australia and New Zealand.
Mailelani was featured as one of 4 case studies, at a WIPO Heads of Intellectual Property Officers Conference (HIPOC) in Fiji, along with 14 Pacific countries, in October 2023.
Visit the Mailelani on Facebook.
Mailelani was featured as one of 4 case studies, at a WIPO Heads of Intellectual Property Officers Conference (HIPOC) in Fiji, along with 14 Pacific countries, in October 2023.
Visit the Mailelani on Facebook.
WIPO HIPOC Conference, Fiji, October 2023
Entrepreneurs Mental Health, Stress and Anxiety
In 2024, a Survey of Entrepreneurs Mental Health, Stress and and Anxiety was developed in association with Customer Discovery Pros to address the mental health challenges and risks of entrepreneurship. Visit: http://EntrepreneursMentalHealth.org