The Company Builder
Entrepreneurs from all around the world have similar problems, it is not unique to the entrepreneurs in Mexico, Argentina or Australia that face problems finding the way to get customers, explain their products or transform their capabilities into solutions of real needs.
I had been working with people coming from Mexico that arrives to the Silicon Valley and learn a lot of new things. This place allows, the people that comes to visit or move into the area, to learn very fast how a new company can be developed. The events that you can assist are full of people with experience in developing a new product, writing marketing materials, exploring new approaches to solve a problem, operating a company, doing financial projections or building business models.
In this way, this is the first stage of learning, talking with the people around that is very open to explore new ventures, people that is willing to join a company in exchange of sweat stocks, ready to convert an idea into a highly profitable company and become the new millionaire on the block.
After the first step, you explore how to build a company. It is part of the culture in the Silicon Valley that a company is not just an idea, is a balanced package that includes a team that has the 360 degrees view of a company, from the core competence required to create an unique product, to the financial person that is capable of build a financial projection, elaborate on cost and discuss with investors how much money is needed in each stage of the company to get the product into the customer hands, doing marketing research, go to market strategies and support the product after the product has been sold.
What you do need to do to build all these things. If you are an entrepreneur, that arrived alone into a new place. You need to meet people, build trust, get the minimal resources and build a road map to move forward. In TechBA, we had helped more than 200 companies to walk the way to create a successful company, which is able to get into the market, survive and grow over time.
Based in our experiences, we are identifying more way to help our companies; this is why we are looking in how to develop the Company Builder Process. An idea that we discuss with local people around specific cases of entrepreneur that have a great value, people that is related with science or technology. These people that has an unique knowledge to create something new, like a new kind of food, new approaches to generate energy, have experimented with medical devices, and similar skills. These people need a different kind of help those entrepreneurs that have the knowledge to create a company and not necessarily technical savvy, the ones that are more innovator than scientist people.
For this group, we need to put together business expertise and smart money next to them as scientist or high tech guru. For this people, we need to help them to build their company, protect them to do what they are good based in their unique skills and move forward to jump into a new universe of wealth creation, which includes a business activities that are perform by somebody else that has the skills, expertise and desired to perform.
We invite you to join us to in this endeavor, it is a lot of fun to walk the way of build a team, and find some years later that an idea on the market is once again helping a lot of people. Visit our portfolio of companies, explore which ones need some help and share with us the exciting experience.
