Slingshot Venture Development is a venture acceleration service that helps develop entrepreneurial capacity and skills.  We do this for the following:

• Individuals exploring self-employment or entrepreneurship as an alternative to a traditional job.
• Social entrepreneurs designing a new change initiative.
• Company management teams developing or re-evaluating their  strategy.
• Investors when they  need an operational perspective on potential or existing portfolio companies.
• Educational  institutions who want to provide their students with experiential entrepreneurial education.

Our approach and business model vary according to each client’s specific context.  We can provide individual training and business coaching, lead strategy development and investment readiness, and serve as interim management or join your board.

Our philosophy is that you know more about your business, aspirations and capacity than anyone else.  But we all get more clarity about these with the help of  an experienced outsider with a different perspective who can challenge our assumptions, stimulate us to be more resourceful and imaginative in developing and evaluating alternatives, and more articulate in communicating our strategy to customers and investors.