Growing Ideas into Operating Enterprises

Let BRIDGES' Venture Coaches' extensive experience and expertise in enterprise formation and funding, strategic planning, management team and organization building, operations and growth strategy and much more to help you take your venture the next level.

 

VENTURE COACHES

Good ideas, business plans and growth strategies are much more likely to succeed, and operating entities are much more likely to get to the next level when founders and senior management are paired with coaches having proven experience and the right expertise. BRIDGES’ Venture Coaches are committed to helping you build and grow your enterprise independent of its maturity by volunteering their time, experience and expertise to helping community members create fundable business plans and operate and grow entities, independent of their maturity or whether they are for profit or nonprofit.

MIDDLEBURY ENTREPRENEURS MENTORING SERVICE

Are you a student-entrepreneur with an idea or passion for leveraging your passions into a business? Join MEMS during Winter Term and learn business principles, and let us help you begin navigating the process of transforming you idea into a viable enterprise. If your concept has solid business potential by the end of January, you may compete for selection as a Middlebury Solutions Group client.


 

Success Stories

  • The MSG process is a collaborative one, involving student venture founders working with student venture coaches who are supported by volunteer mentors who bring their own experience and expertise to the challenge of developing the founders' ideas into viable operating entities. Our experience convinces us that good ideas and business plans are much more likely to succeed when our clients and their student team are paired with coaches having proven experience. Here is one example of how superb