The Dynamo Approach to Acceleration
By: Santosh Sankar with Jon Bradford and Ted Alling
Why Dynamo? Here’s why:
At Dynamo, we’re a diverse group of operators and investors with a range of experiences and complementary strengths. For our MD’s, we have Ted Alling, Barry Large and Allan Davis, the founders of Access America Transport and Lamp Post Group. As our Entrepreneur in Residence, we have Jon Bradford- former MD of Techstars. Combine these powerhouses with our elite group of mentors, and you have Dynamo- the premier logistics, transportation and supply chain accelerator. We are here to combine our experiences and resources with your passion and great ideas to bring logistics into the future.
How? Here’s how, according to a few of Dynamo’s core team members:
It takes a village…
Ted Alling, MD
We aren’t strangers to the difficulties of building companies. We understand that a strong and balanced ecosystem is an underrated and often overlooked ingredient for success. To that point, we are bringing together a diverse group of participants, partners, and mentors who will become members of our community, for a lifetime. We are all aligned to the same goal: to support the innovation and growth of critical and emerging logistics, transportation, and supply chain technologies.
The Dynamo community will make all the difference as teams go through the accelerator. The program will be intense and at times stressful, but our teams will be able to execute their visions that much faster and more effective because of access to our world class mentors.
To name a few:
- Eileen Burbidge- an early-stage tech VC and founding partner of Passion Capital
- Gary Vaynerchuk- entrepreneur, investor, author, public speaker, and internet personality
- David Caines- the COO of Kenco- a leading provider of transportation management services.
Need help running a sprint? No problem. Need an introduction to a retailer? Done. Cofounder trouble? We understand. Our focus is on doing all we can to help your team succeed. And on top of the expert mentorship you will receive, you will also be surrounded by other elite teams throughout the intense three months- further expanding this unparalleled community.
Get personal
Santosh Sankar, Director
The emphasis on personal interactions will be evident from day one. Each of our ten participating companies will have varying needs that requires acceleration to be largely personalized and tailored to their specific needs. . We bring in a vast variety of mentors for this exact reason- to ensure that we have a breadth of experiences and functional expertise represented.
Our personalized approach includes a full day each week for indepth office hours with each of our ten teams in order to understand their progress and assess where the Dynamo “village” can be of help. Like the startups we have already worked with, we will constantly iterate our offering,which has been informed greatly by the experience Ted, Barry, and Allan bring to the table, as well as Jon during his time at some of the world’s top programs.
These personalized offerings will then culminate at our unique version of Demo Day, where industry executives and investors will spend a day in an intimate setting getting to know the businesses that we’ve accelerated and will build a more personal relationship with their the founders.
Optimize for pilots & trials
Jon Bradford, Entrepreneur in Residence
We take pride in not being driven by splashy headlines surrounding capital raises, but instead, by the motivation to partner with high quality founders in order to help them build a business in a sustainable manner. We focus on bringing in the right partners and mentors to help drive adoption of pilots and trials — activities that can help drive sales dollars.
The benefits to our our founders:
- Provide a strong pipeline of qualified leads
- Help companies understand the sales process
- Increases odds of top line growth
- Provide a baseline of fundamental for investors
Underpinning our approach is our belief that investor capital will be easier to raise if a company develops a product that not only addresses customer needs, but also does so in an economically sensible way. Our curriculum reflects this within each month’s theme- Month 1: Shape, Month 2: Build, and Month 3: Sell. From my experience in the accelerator ecosystem, I strongly believe that teams stand to greatly benefit from their investment of time in the accelerator.
At Dynamo, we accelerate differently. Our unique and personalized guidance from industry leaders and investors, along with our access to a vast and varied community will allow our teams to “Shape, Build, Sell” better and faster than anyone else out there. We are the best in the business. Simple as that. And if you want to make history with us, three simple words can help bring you here:
Hit. The. Button.
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