How We Serve
JumpStart is service-oriented. Though we cannot say "yes" to every entrepreneur (in fact, our business model depends on our saying "no" to 90% of entrepreneurs who apply for funding), we believe that we owe the following to all entrepreneurs who engage with us:
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.