Building a Great Company requires more than standard startup tropes.
Venture Design is a framework to help you design that company.
What is the Visionary Way?
The startup ecosystem is built for one type of founder. But there are two:
The Venture Way Founder
Most founders are building a company to scale and exit. The startup ecosystem is designed for this. It is organized around investors reaching liquidity events so they can realize a return on their investment. The advice, the tools, the accelerator programs, and the standard playbook all follow from that structure. This is a Venture Way founder.
The Visionary Way Founder
These founders are building to change a standard in the world. Think Apple, Amazon, or Whole Foods. These companies did not just win their markets, they changed how their markets work. The founders who built them were not racing toward an exit. They were racing to do the thing, and then keep doing it better. This is a Visionary Way founder.
Venture Design is a context to help you capture the market opportunity.
Building the company starts with imagining the company you want and then designing it to get there. In the early stages, this means deciding which customers to serve, how to reach them, how to compete in a specific market, how the business will deliver value, how the business will capture value, and what the capital strategy needs to look like to hold the whole structure together.
Every one of those decisions is a design decision. Figuring out how your company is going to work using rigorous approach that engages a framework and set of tools is Venture Design.
For Visionary Way founders, Venture Design matters even more.
Visionary Way founders have a harder road because *their* standards are higher. This dictates a level of quality, an adherence to values, and a more complete solution, which means the design and approach has to be more precise, particularly in the early stage when there are resource constraints.
Work with Ada
For graphic design, you hire a graphic designer. For venture design, you hire a venture designer. KeyChange is a bespoke venture design firm that works one-on-one with visionary founders to design strong companies.
Ada Ryland has worked with early-stage founders since 2014. Her background is in engineering and lean manufacturing, which shapes a practice built on rigor and intellectual honesty. She works with founders who are serious about building the company, not just the product, and who want someone in their corner who understands the game they are actually playing.
If your vision is worth building, build it right.
If you are doing this for real and for the long haul, we want to meet you. The first conversation is a diagnostic. If there is a fit, we will know it quickly.
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“ Ada has an exceptional way of helping you unlock business building and start-up growth. She demystifies what appears to be the accepted norm and helps you to get in touch with the grips with what is necessary and what you need to be mindful of as a Founder at your stage of your business's life.”
Lydia Ofori, CEO of Plainr
We credit the Ada’s method almost entirely to the early traction that allowed us to raise our pre-seed round from an institutional investor.
Jameson Pitts, Co-founder of Lynx
As a young team with a good product, we were struggling to land punches, and we often found ourselves vigorously fighting the wind. Through Ada’s guidance, we have been able to narrow our focus only on the elements that push the needle for us.
Rafael De La Vega, CEO of Salt Athletics
Teaming up with Ada has been a huge catalyst for us. She’s helped us get a firm grip on where our business stands right now and what is needed to push into the next phase successfully. Thanks to her expertise, we have a clear articulation of our product offer, a deeper grasp on who our customers are, and a well-defined business model. Now, we’re set up with a clear game plan for the next 18 months, focusing on real, tangible progress.
Riane Yates, CEO of Political Tech Startup
Ada has the most unique approach to analyzing startups and helping founders gain clarity on areas to focus on for growth! Their perspective helped Moolathon identify and prioritize these areas of focus while developing a clear strategy to help us reach milestones!
Mac Wilkinson, CEO of Moolathon
I took Ada’s workshop and couldn’t have been more pleased. There are plenty of models for understanding various parts of your business that leave no gaps. Ada brings multiple schools of thought together to provide clarity for founders and their teams. To get clear on your customer, marketing, business model, and/or investor pitch - let her guide you. She teaches in a conversational manner, seamlessly giving you a robust understanding of how to deliver a product or service that people will love. In all the business books, blogs, and online course I’ve consumed, nothing's more complete and accessible than Ada's course.
Victor AbiJaoudi II, CEO of Primal 7
We came to Ada at a time when we needed to explore options for how to proceed in our venture. Her consulting method provided us the space to explore those possibilities, ask old questions differently, and ask new questions with clarity. The time we spent with Ada was invaluable, and very productive.
Clementina Russo, Co-Founder of Mona Loves Gustav
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