We will use three pillars for our Incubator Clients:
Our first pillar is Coach. We will coach our clients by providing both Primary Mentors and Secondary Specialist mentors to provide one-on-one advisement to help our clients grow their businesses. ALL clients must be coachable, otherwise, they will be told that “we cannot help them” as part of our exit interview. The Mentors and Clients will be paired by the Selection Committee. Hopefully, these personal relationships will be very successful and become known as our secret sauce to our Innovation Incubator program.
Our second pillar is Collaboration. We will foster collaboration during monthly Client Collaboration (Best Practices) meetings. Clients will share their success and failures for the past 30 days and their plan and goals for the next 30 days during this meeting. Occasionally, guest speakers will also participate periodically to offer educational tips. Collaboration of like-minded entrepreneurs is oftentimes the most rewarding of the entire incubator experience. We will foster that entrepreneurship is a team sport.
Our third pillar is Cultivate. We will cultivate our clients using the power of practical education. We will essentially teach them what they do not know during our on-going practitioner based educational certificate programs. We believe that entrepreneurship can be taught.
