Venture Catalyst Consulting seeks to improve the financial stability and happiness of all deserving entrepreneurs by helping business owners build successful, sustainable companies and by helping organizations that support those business owners to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems and effective entrepreneurship support programs.
At VCC, we analyze, design, and plan the structural systems needed to achieve business or program goals and to ensure the sustainability of the organization and its place within the entrepreneurial ecosystem. We believe that the keys to success include a deep understanding of organizational goals, a complete exploration of current systems, honest feedback, proper incentive alignment, and long-term development support.
We support three groups: entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship support organizations,
and the foundations, governments, and corporate sponsors that serve as funding
partners to entrepreneurship support organizations. For more information on how
we work with each group, please explore the pages below.
Venture Catalyst is managed by Cate Costa, a small business strategy consultant and economic development professional with a decade of experience in 9 countries (click here for bio). Cate and her clients have been featured in a variety of publications including:
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What is the Honest Entrepreneurship model, exactly?
The Honest Entrepreneurship model
is simply the belief that much harm is done by those who obscure the truth
through anesthetized analysis in the interest of kindness; it’s the belief that
it is actually unkind to protect a business owner’s feelings at the expense of
the honesty needed to improve his/her situation. We shine sunlight on the
undiscussed issues that hinder organizational or program progress. The Honest
Entrepreneurship model is simply Venture Catalyst’s commitment that we will seek
to understand our clients’ goals and then provide the honest feedback necessary
to help them achieve those goals, regardless of whether or not that feedback is
easy to hear.
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