While entrepreneurs have access to a host of resources that provide financial capital, they often struggle to find engineers with the expertise and knowledge to turn their groundbreaking ideas into a reality. Village88 techLab fills this void by investing human capital — the collective resources of a team of highly skilled and successful web developers — in exchange for equity or other forms of compensation. This approach ensures that entrepreneurs are not only able to realize their vision, but that the resulting product is robust, dynamic, and optimized for successful entry into the market.
We can partner with businesses at any stage of their product lifecycles, ranging from a working prototype, a minimum viable product, or a go-to-market scalable product.
We look for entrepreneurs who not only have enthusiasm and passion for their business, but who truly understand their market and have in-depth knowledge of their industry.
After the startup week, or customer discovery and validation stage, we are here to work with you to build the prototype.
During the incubation stage when you need to build out the MVP to launch you business to target customer, we will build you MVP to enable you for the next phase of business.
Before the full-scale market launch, we will help you build a fully scalable product for market launch.
“ It takes a village of resources and support to make it happen. ”
We strive to enable entrepreneurs to fulfill their true product potential by providing world-class, cutting-edge web development engineering resources.
We partner with entrepreneurs from around the globe with ideas and products that serve a wide range of industries.
Our partners came together in 2013 with a shared desire to leverage our product development expertise and engineering resources to give back to the entrepreneurial community.
With an impressive breadth and diversity of experience, we truly understand how to grow an idea from a concept pitch to scalable business. It takes a village of resources and support to make it happen—and we believe that our knowledge, wisdom, and experience can best guide our partners to success.
We set clear milestones as we go so that there is a clear, mutual understanding of our progress. Knowing there is no one-size-fits-all approach, we work with each business to define the partnership for product acceleration. Our process is captured though our signature A-B-L-E program:
We seek top-notch, passionate entrepreneurs.
Our application process provides us the chance to get to know you better. When we find a fit, we will schedule meetings to understand your product, company, and team, then will provide you a proposal on how to move forward.
Agile development process
We will work with you to define the scope of work. Based on your preference of involvement, we utilize agile development process to share visibility of work and progress.
Continued Support
Once the work is completed, based on our mutual interests, we can provide additional dedicated support for your product.
Moving Forward
As we are approach the end of the program, we will work with you on the exit plan. As needed, we will help you to hire the right talent and provide coaching as necessary to ensure a smooth transition. We see our partnership as an investment in your team and business, and we will do whatever we can to ensure your next phase of success.
Managing Director
Michael is a entrepreneurial engineer with deep experience training and managing talented teams, founding and building new companies. Michael served as Partner/Founding team member, CTO, and CEO for various start-ups over the last decade such as Zurple.com, SpotTrender.com, and CodingDojo.com.
Richard is a corporate professional turned entrepreneur. Having worked in various management roles within Boeing, he possesses extensive experience in business strategy and program management. He also has first-hand knowledge of the challenges involved in growing an entrepreneurial endeavor through two web-based start-ups he launched, Thinkburg.com and Mentor 2.0. With a deep understanding of organizational structure and complex program execution, he is passionate about finding creative and unique solutions to the most complex business issues.
Senior business development and marketing executive in the technology industry with over 20 years of experience in startup and established organizations such as Microsoft and Citrix Systems. Extensive experience in building distribution channels, creating and managing strategic relationships, go to market agreements, and partner marketing. Rich depth of skills in creating new business plans, justification and launch of new products and services as well as marketing of existing products. Professional writer, established speaker, industry spokesperson, and established leader of teams.
Alan Ko is a licensed Certified Public Accountant, holding various senior business and financial analysis position within the Fortune 50 Companies. He has extensive experience in cost and revenue projection, business planning and analysis, internal audit and attestation, post merger acquisition business realignment.
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