The Process

No Strings Attached

Halo Institute focuses on human capital by keeping the entrepreneur in charge of his or her experience within the 3 month Halo Process and by introducing the halo target companies to potential investor at the completion of Boot Camp.

Each business will be assigned a key lead to coach them through the process and steps beyond. Many businesses will need early stage capital investment and Halo enables them to prepare an expert-validated business case or prototype model for soliciting investment.

Halo Institute also empowers businesses on an entry-level basis that are not yet ready to enter the Halo Process. These businesses receive some resources, based on demonstrated need. Typically these may include mini courses, meeting space, office space, unpaid or self-paid internships and mentoring.

The Halo Process - Boot Camp

Halo Institute uses a strategic process to fill the gap that currently exists between people with great ideas and investors who are looking for solid opportunities.

Different from other local entrepreneurial ecosystems, Halo focuses on developing holistic and sustainable  learning experiences for entrepreneurs by injecting mentors, professional guidance, personal coaching and other customized resources into their business model development. 

Strategy = Leveraging your firm's core competencies into the global market place.

1. What is the overall demand for your organization?

2. Competitive Landscape
-"Know they competition"
-Competitors v. potential investors/partners

3. Core Competencies: Integrated set of economic activities that yields competitive advantage
-"What do we do better than anybody else"

4. Value Proposal
-To the end user
-To the industry

5. What kind of company are you? All organizations are all of these, but only one can be king? Which one should you be?
-Product
-Process
-Content capacity
-Customer

6. Envisioned future v. core values (secret sauce)
-Memorable, concise "no walnut plaques"
-T-shirt or bumper sticker filter
-Must evoke emotional response

7. Exit strategy "to investors"
-Organic growth
-"Flip" strategic sale
-IPO
-Employee ownership

8. Who is the Target Customer?

9. First Filters "What is the questions for a go or no-go decision"

10. Blue Ocean strategy
-Red ocean, where is it
-Industry willingness to pay factors
-Your new BO Strategy
-Strategy canvas