Congratulations! Entrepreneurship is first and foremost a mindset. It is the art of finding creative and profitable solutions to problems. Every successful entrepreneur has been someone who's been able to identify a problem, an unmet need or unfulfilled want and come up with a solution to it before somebody else did.
The success of your start-up is about 1% innovation and 99% your business skills… or your ability to access the complement of business skills necessary to succeed. A start-up’s move into a competitive business world requires specific knowledge, expertise, resources and personal business skills.
Through the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CEE), the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) provides clients with “Comprehensive Business Assistance” that helps entrepreneurs develop strategies and plans that address the risks waiting to cause your venture to fail.
NIIC business coaches become adjunct members of your team helping to fill the gaps that exist in most start-up entities. We help entrepreneurs develop strategies and plans that enable them to address the growth risks, technology & production risks, marketability and competition risks, financial risks and management and team risks waiting to cause your venture to fail.
These strategies become the backbone or infrastructure for:
- Accelerated business growth;
- Technology commercialization;
- Capital acquisition;
- Market entry;
- Competitive advantage;
- Management & Team development.
Business too, is a relationship driven sport . launching a new business venture is the toughest job you'll ever take and a very lonely endeavor. The Innovation Center and the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence exists to come along side the inventor, innovator, or entrepreneur and help take them where they want to go.