Your Partner In Entrepreneurship From Planning To Implementation

YOUR PARTNER IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP FROM PLANNING TO IMPLEMENTATION

ENLIST AN EXPERT PARTNER to accelerate your community’s entrepreneurial successes.

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WHO WE ARE

Our Difference We’re backed by first-hand, realworld experience. We’ve either been where you are or we know someone who has. With a decade of on-the-ground venture development experience, JumpStart offers access to seasoned, expert practitioners.

JumpStart is a seasoned nonprofit venture development organization committed to strengthening the economy through entrepreneurship. We’ve seen the difference targeted intervention for entrepreneurial businesses—those fast-growing, competitive companies with the most potential to attract capital and create good-paying jobs—has made in Northeast Ohio and regions across the country. We partner with company founders and

We’re focused on quick implementation. From assessing the potential for entrepreneurial activity to creating a new source of capital, certain needs are shared across communities. JumpStart can deliver practical, targeted solutions to address your areas of opportunity.

We build your capacity. Whether we help roll out pre-packaged, customizable opportunities, provide back-office support or directly assist with in-region program delivery, we can expand your bandwidth and enhance your efficiency.

We’re focused on faster results. We leverage best practices, cutting-edge solutions, an experienced team and a national network of support so you can begin generating real outcomes sooner.

6 new venture development organizations created with JumpStart’s assistance

15 regions across the U.S. have put JumpStart’s experience and expertise to work for them

$27M has been raised in two years by communities to implement recommended programs

Customizable solutions that spark and support entrepreneurial activity to create measurable impact in your community: •SEED FUND CREATION: INCREASING ACCESS TO CAPITAL

entrepreneurial companies know that providing business assistance can be costly. Among the greatest entrepreneurial assets in any community are its

Access to early funding is critical to startup success. successful entrepreneurs and executives. JumpStart If you’re looking to foster technology-based company shows you how to uncover a quality pool of mentor growth and increase the number of new businesses able candidates and how to structure and run an to attract equity investment, you need to identify and efficient, high-impact mentoring program capable of address pre-seed capital gaps. supporting your next generation of job creators.

We can help. We have created and managed our own funds, investing in a sector-diverse portfolio of 76

•ASSESSMENT CONTINUUM: ACCELERATING AND TRACKING CLIENT PROGRESS

pre-market-entry companies to-date. We also have Assisting entrepreneurs who are driven to scale their assisted a number of communities in developing their businesses is vital, but how do you focus your time own sources of capital. From defining the market need on the startups with the biggest potential and ensure to implementation, we share tools, processes and meaningful milestones are met? Online intake systems, insights that help newly-created funds get up and collaborative service delivery, systematic reviews, running more quickly. communications tools and metrics reporting lead to •MENTORING:

improved client service experiences and better impact EXTENDING YOUR IMPACT THROUGH VOLUNTEER RESOURCES

outcomes. By utilizing JumpStart’s recommended Communities interested in guiding the growth of young

series of assessment best practices and online tools, communities can efficiently target delivery of the

“Working with JumpStart further supports our mission of relentlessly building companies for the advancement of Memphis’ entrepreneurial ecosystem. We’re excited to leverage JumpStart’s expertise, resources and track record.”

ANDRE FOWLKES, CO-PRESIDENT OF START CO.

most effective resources to the highest potential opportunities in order to yield better outcomes, faster.

•PAID SEARCH: ATTRACTING & RETAINING SKILLED TALENT

JumpStart works in partnership with entrepreneurs, investors, economic development organizations, civic leaders and philanthropic funders to enhance entrepreneurship’s contribution to regional economic vitality and to spark job creation. Drawing on our extensive experience in Northeast Ohio and regions across the country, we design and implement solutions based on a community’s unique assets and opportunities. Not only are we available to help identify and develop solutions, but our seasoned team is also able to assist in putting any plans in action to generate activity and impact more quickly.

COMMUNITIES ACROSS THE COUNTRY ARE LEVERAGING OUR EXPERIENCE TO ACCELERATE THEIR OWN ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESSES: Northern Indiana: Northeast (Fort Wayne), Northwest (Gary) and North Central Minneapolis Saint Paul, MN Duluth, MN Akron, OH Upstate New York: Western, Central, Finger Lakes and Southern Tier Detroit, MI Baton Rouge, LA St. Louis, MO Central Georgia Atlanta, GA Memphis, TN Northwest Pennsylvania

active region in discussion

Southwest Florida

FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT KATE HANNA | 216.363.3435 (o) | kate.hanna@jumpstartinc.org