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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Posted by Becca Braun
In 2008, according to PWC MoneyTree and VentureXpert, Ohio moved into the top quartile, among all states, for number of venture capital deals. In 2009, Ohio moved into the Top ...
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JumpStart is service-oriented. All entrepreneurs who engage with our team can expect us to exhibit our operating style each and every day:
Operating Style
Challenging: We expect great things of you and will challenge you to exceed expectations.
Honest: We speak the truth, plain and simple. And we hope you will do the same with us.
Engaged: We respond rapidly to your inquiries, and we become involved and active in your business (yet will not run your business for you).
Resourceful: We will be creative in helping you to access relationships, contacts and other resources that will help your business succeed.
Insightful: We will do our best to be current on your industry and to offer you constructive advice, not reasons why you won't succeed.
Fun: We will maintain a sense of humor as we travel with you through entrepreneurship's hills and valleys.
Core Values
Accountability: Be accountable for outcomes and devise simple metrics that convey progress and outcomes of activity.
Diversity: Demonstrate a commitment to diversity in portfolio companies, employees, board of directors, partnerships, suppliers, stakeholders.
Focus: Maintain an unwavering commitment to organizational focus. Without focus we cannot succeed.
Integrity: Uphold integrity as a critical foundation in all that we do.
Quality: Associate with highest quality product and service offerings to build stakeholder credibility.
Risk Orientation: As an organization, encourage and take calculated operating risks.
Teamwork: Work collaboratively and openly, welcoming differences of opinion, to achieve common goals.