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About
Organization:
Chabin Concepts (Chabin) is a national network of economic development, site location, and marketing professionals, experienced in all phases of urban and rural economic development. Chabin has assisted economic development professionals with strategic positioning, marketing, and organizational management since its founding in 1989. It offers step-by-step action plans for targeted campaigns, lead generations, and collateral materials. Chabin offers tools to boost an organization's competitive edge through community data, comparative cost, and impact analysis. It also has an extensive knowledge base specializing in coaching, industry intelligence, and location analysis. Chabin is a partner on one WIRED project. Tasks:
Project 1.1 - Economic Development Innovation Toolkit:
- Two deliverables - A 101 page framework / outline / guideline manual outlining the processes required to set up and run a venture community program, as designed and run by Golden Capital Network. Additionally included was a 140 page appendix (second deliverable) of all supporting materials used to design, run and market a venture community as done so by Golden Capital Network.
Title: Venture Communities Guidelines
Venture Communities is a program offered by Golden Capital Network (GCN) to help communities identify and assist innovation entrepreneurs. This document provides guidelines for implementing a Venture Communities program and describes lessons learned from three pilot programs and the alternative Venture Island format, as conducted by Golden Capital Networks.
Title: Venture Communities Guidelines Appendix
The Venture Communities, as run by Golden Capital and captured and reported by Chabin Concepts, provides a framework for creating an event to bring companies, (start up and existing), investors (VC and Angel), and service providers and business professionals together to begin dialogue and encourage investment in technology companies and ventures. If an organized investor network is not established, this framework provides the opportunity to develop the initial impetus needed to create one along with the visibility to draw in the other resources that are necessary for the development and support of businesses.
This is important as the venture community overcomes three main challenges ED professionals have in trying to bring investors, service providers and businesses together for a common purpose.
1. The business or start-up needs to generate revenue to succeed but does not have the visibility or skills needed to identify and attract qualified investors to the venture or company. A venture community provides them with a platform to pitch their proposition in front of several or many qualified investors what have been pre- qualified
2. Investors experience challenges in finding qualified companies to invest in. This venue allows them to see many potential investment opportunities that have been screened and prepped to present the relevant information that the investor may need to move forward.
3. Banks, accounting firms, technologists, industry professionals, service providers and consultants require sufficient visibility and potential deal-flow to justify involvement and / or sponsoring of conferences and events. By bringing together a critical mass of companies, investors and audience, services providers can justify sponsorship of an event.
The Venture Community provides a venue and a reason for all to be involved, and additionally provides visibility to the organization (many times an Economic Development Professional), which can lend leverage to other projects and initiatives that they are moving forward.
Experience/Core Competencies:
Conducted over 200 economic development strategic plans, implemented creative marketing plans and strategies, design and development of web tools (websites and tools), facilitated workshops and training.
Partnerships with other relevant organizations:
California Workforce Investment Board, Golden Capital Network, Org.net, Council on Competitiveness, California Solar Initiative, Workforce Boards in Northern California, TeamCalifornia
Opportunities for collaboration:
Cluster Analysis; Economic Development; Economic Impact Analysis; Facilitation (meetings, etc.); Marketing; Skill Gap Analysis; Strategic Planning
Related Records: Projects
1) Economic Development Innovation Toolkit
Related Records: Accomplishments
1) Entrepreneurship Project Gears Up for California Tech 100
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