Inventures Guides, Launches and Grows Alliances. We help accelerate market awareness and acceptance of innovations, new standards, and initiatives by offering alliances a blend of strategic counsel, thought leadership, and operational support services backed by superb people, proven best practices, and best-in-class tools.
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Companies wanting to form a new alliance or business ecosystem have questions. Inventures has answers.
Incubation Services
Companies interested in starting a new alliance often ask, "How will the alliance be run?" "What type of entity will it be—LLC? Not-for-profit?" "What type of funding model will it use?" Inventures professionals will work with your team and legal counsel to help structure the right type of entity to support your objectives.
Thought Leadership
Thought leadership is the foundation of our startup services. We help your founding members set business objectives, forecast required revenues and expenditures, determine alliance structure, and develop member recruitment strategies, all of which are crucial to launching and operating a successful alliance.
Our experience in business ecosystem management services helps ensure that all of the required management-support structures and policies are in place so that the alliance will run smoothly once it launches. We set up bank accounts, establish help desks, develop websites, provide collaboration tools, and more. The first thing we do is assess what phase of the alliance lifecycle you are in, to enable recommendation of appropriate a la carte services.
Structure, Legal Support, and Funding
Inventures provides:
- Guidance in determining the appropriate membership structure for your alliance
- Help identifying an appropriate funding model to achieve your objectives
- Recommended membership levels and fees
- Membership and revenue forecasting at various levels
- Legal support, including any required governance documents
Expenditures
Based on our experience, we can help forecast expenditures that a business ecosystem will likely be required to ensure success within each phase of the lifecycle. We will help you develop a budget and cash-flow forecast that includes required revenue to support planned expenditures around recruitment, marketing, and operations.
Next Steps
Once your new alliance is up and running, Inventures can help identify key
alliance marketing programs for launch and ongoing growth.