Mojo Ventures Accelerator 

Entrepreneurship from proof of concept to exit



What do you want from an accelerator?

Strategic thinking is generally about innovation or marketing choices. Peter Drucker once put it this way: “Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two—and only these two—basic functions: marketing and innovation, all the rest are costs.” From a practical perspective he also said: "anything that can't be scoped into a series of realistic actions, is probably a waste of time." At Mojo Ventures, actionable planning is at the heart of our approach to coaching and venture development.

Mojo Ventures Coaching Overview 

For early stage companies, we solve three distinct types of problems through our active coaching approach. We shadow executives or key team members to develop their skills and practices. We do this with regular stand up meetings and a commitment to improve and where appropriate standardize work flows and responsibility centers.

1. Technology Development (innovation)
  • technology as a moat
  • technology roadmaps and project management
  • the intellectual asset portfolio
  • finding early adopters 
  • value proposition design
  • HR & Finance

2. Product Development (innovation & marketing)
  • prove product-market fit
  • value proposition design
  • aiming at companies big enough to buy us.
  • scale manufacturing, service, sales, marketing
  • product roadmaps and project management
  • regulatory and QA
  • service and warranty
  • brand promises
  • sales playbooks and go to market strategies
  • HR & Finance

3. Market development (marketing)
  • beach head markets
  • expansion markets - export, adjacent markets by field of use, licensing, 
  • marketing (and sales) roadmaps and project management
  • value chain relationships
  • exit / liquidity planning (for private companies)
  • HR & Finance


For mature companies, we all of the same services. In addition for companies with over 1 million in profits (EBITDA) we prepare owners and businesses to manage change through our active coaching approach. We shadow executives or key team members to develop their skills and practices.

Dressing the Bride Coaching

  • business owner exit preparation - financial and personal
  • business optimization for maximum exit value
  • business valuations & story telling
  • value chain relationship research and business development
  • mergers and acquisition (We are associated ACT Capital in Seattle)


The Mojo Ventures Accelerator

We mentor a small cohort of companies each year. Generally they come to us through referrals. If you would like to be considered please note that we take application on a rolling basis. If you take the time to prepare a submission, we promise to read it and give you some feedback on a zoom call. We can also discuss the potential fit Mojo Ventures might have with your project. We are in this to make friends and make money. If you think we can do that, then let's get together.

Every venture is different but there are some common themes among the early stage firms we engage with. We also have confidentiality obligations to all of our clients that limits what we can tell you about them. We have engaged on personalized one on one mentoring and project management support. We also engage in team building and development leading scrum meetings and delivering project management skills and procedures that make things better, faster, and cheaper. The following are some example of what we deliver.

  • Financial Reviews
  • Data Rooms
  • Intellectual Asset Portfolio Management Support
  • Corporate Governance Review
  • Human Capital Review (Team Building)
  • Pitch decks
  • Innovation management
  • Competitive strategy
  • Operational excellence
  • Exit preparation
  • Business valuation
  • Fund raising
  • Data rooms
  • Investment due diligence


A typical engagement might look like this:

  • Getting to know the team - zoom calls
    • Identifying the strengths and weaknesses of everyone on the management team
    • Identify and help implement fractional support services that can add value
  • Regular rhythm with team calls - 1 per month
  • Regular rhythm with executives one on one - 1 per week
  • Regular rhythm with client / business owner  one on one - as required
  • Mojo Ventures Network - introduction calls - as required 

Our coaches facilitate many types of corporate conversations. In marketing, they are masters of all four P's of marketing (product, price, promotion, place), or are experienced sales executives who have grown sales teams to scaled seven and eight figure sales pipelines. In manufacturing, team members have helped many companies dramatically decrease their cost structures by applying LEAN thinking.



The Basic Accelerator Package

  • 3 hours of Venture Coaching per week for 1 year.   (renewable)
    • This is negotiable depending on the opportunity for Mojo Ventures. 
    • We will commit up to a maximum of 2 days per week depending on the need and the opportunity for cash compensation. 

  • Referrals from the Mojo Ventures Network
    • We have worked with a wide range of service providers in the product development space over 30 years.  We only highlight some of them on our website.  We know where to find good value for money and we know where you might negotiate a special deal  new venture creation. If you need support in accounting or legal professional services,  we would be please to make some recommendations.

  • Fund Raising support, and sometimes we invest directly in the companies we work with.

  • Management Team Dialog Facilitation




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