acceleratION ROADMAP

// PERSONALIZED STRATEGIC PLANNING

// SUPPORT TO OVERCOME BARRIERS

// Clarity for scaling your company

We get why it’s hard. You don’t have to go it alone.

Warehouse mentors support you with strategic knowledge, resource connections and practical problem solving in:

  • Suppliers & supply chain connections

  • Accelerating key strategic decisions

  • Capital & funding strategies

  • Business model scalability & financial planning

  • Product development & product lifecycle management

  • Navigating federal, state & local resources

  • Hiring, people & culture

The Acceleration Roadmap Experience

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    1. Core Business Elements

    You start with an assessment session to clearly identify & prioritize your core business opportunities and barriers to growth

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    2. Build the Roadmap

    Together we build a tailored Acceleration Roadmap for growth, change, and problem solving that incorporates your priorities with our scaleup knowledge base

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    3. Work the Plan

    Experienced mentors support and guide you in implementing your roadmap through 1:1 and team sessions that fit your schedule.

Fill out The program Application To Get Started Today

FAQs

  • We are here for businesses through the scaleup phase, but we know that is not a one-size-fits-all situation. Members commit to an initial 12 months in the Acceleration Roadmap program and can remain in the program longer if needed. Often, members find value in being part of the Warehouse program for 18-36 months.

  • No. The Warehouse is a subscription-based program. We do not require you to give up equity in your company to participate.

  • Warehouse mentors are experienced with developing funding & capital strategies, preparing pitches and fundraising with their own companies. However, unlike many tech accelerators, investment fundraising is not our exclusive focus. Common conversations with our members are around the larger context of fundraising, such as solutions to the unique challenges with financing manufacturing operations or preparing a bootstrapped businesses for the decision to seek outside investors for the first time. When you are in fundraising mode and looking for outside capital, we are happy to make connections and introductions.

  • The Accelerator program is designed for manufacturing companies in Scaleup Phase. To us, that means:

    • Your business involves making a physical product

    • Your business is in revenue and growing

    • Your target markets are national or international

    • Your business is a full time endeavor and your team is bigger than 3 people

    • You have completed basic business startup steps

    • Your product is developed and beyond prototype stage

    • You have done customer discovery and identified a product-market fit

    • Your vision is to scale the business

  • This program requires you to regularly report revenue, capital structure, financial model, employee count, and business & product milestones. Transparency and vulnerability are key to an effective collaboration, but you do not need to share sensitive or classified Intellectual Property, trade secrets or customer details. Our staff and mentors will sign NDAs with you.

    As a grant-funded, nonprofit organization, your reported data may be aggregated with other program participants for program and community impact reporting. But your data will never be shared outside of our organization in an individually identifiable manner.

  • Membership in the Acceleration Roadmap program starts at $335 per month.