Dianna Tremblay is the Director of Acceleration for ICA Fund Good Jobs’ business advising program, designed for high-potential good job creating companies looking to scale their operations. Under Dianna’s management, their accelerator companies have raised close to $7M in growth capital, have created and retained over 400 jobs, consistently grown wages year over year, and are run by majority women & people of color management teams. Dianna is based in Oakland, CA.
We’ve had two challenges: operationalizing the program and fully articulating our value proposition.
The most important takeaway was how important a fully articulated value proposition is to your accelerator. We needed to get really clear (and confident) about our accelerator’s super power and how to best articulate it to the companies we wanted to attract to our program.
Do it, it’s so worth it. The time you get to work on your accelerator program with the 500 staff is invaluable. They and the other BAM participants openly share their methods, tools, and wisdom, so we can all support even more high-potential companies in the small business ecosystem. It’s really an awesome experience.
We’ve had two challenges: operationalizing the program and fully articulating our value proposition.
The most important takeaway was how important a fully articulated value proposition is to your accelerator. We needed to get really clear (and confident) about our accelerator’s super power and how to best articulate it to the companies we wanted to attract to our program.
Do it, it’s so worth it. The time you get to work on your accelerator program with the 500 staff is invaluable. They and the other BAM participants openly share their methods, tools, and wisdom, so we can all support even more high-potential companies in the small business ecosystem. It’s really an awesome experience.