Venture Membership - Coaching and Mentoring

Venture Membership helps you make better decisions by providing access to experienced start-up CEOs as well as experts in a broad range of domains, including marketing, sales, finance, R&D, human resources, and start-up fund raising.
 
Apply now.  If you're preparing for an OTBC review, download our suggested slide deck outline.  It outlines a basic investor pitch.  We don't expect polished pitches - but we do want to hear your thinking about each of the business topics in the outline.

 
Venture members meet with an OTBC coach at least every two weeks. Coaching from OTBC’s group of experienced executives covers a broad range of topics, depending on where the start-up is today, and what help is needed to get to the next level. Coaching topics include:

  • Setting up your company
  • Recruiting and compensating founders
  • Building your management team
  • Market sizing
  • Market validation
  • Business feasibility assessment
  • Marketing and Sales strategy
  • Protecting intellectual property
  • Hiring and compensating employees & contractors
  • Working with investors
  • Business plan development
  • Executive summary development
  • Investor pitch development
  • Financial projection development
  • The process of closing an investment

In addition to receiving advice from the OTBC coaching team, Venture Members benefit from OTBC’s large extended network. OTBC can provide introduction to potential partners, Board members, founders, employees, and investors. With a strong team of coaches and a large network of contacts, OTBC helps Venture Members develop solid plans, meet milestones, and expand their network. If Venture Membership sounds like a fit for you, apply now.  You'll be contacted by OTBC's Executive Director.
If you and the exec director both agree that your company looks like a good fit for OTBC, we'll ask you to prepare a presentation for a few of our coaches using our suggested business review template.  That gives you a chance to meet more of our coaches, and gives us a better understanding of your business.  If we all still agree it looks like a fit, we invite you to become an OTBC Venture Member.