Raising capital in the midst of turbulent times is hard. Building a great performing portfolio that can successfully adapt to the new normal and keep its products flowing is harder.  So many high potential companies will have to evolve or perish.

Today more than ever, founders need to find the clarity and insight to get their products flowing, adjust their business models, keep their teams engaged and well coordinated. The most brilliant and creative amongst us are sometimes the most troubled, and nowhere is that clearer than in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Unlike many of the challenges we face today, the most common expressions of mental health disorder (anxiety, depression, substance abuse and imposter syndrome) are largely addressable through individual action. Not only should we all take action, we all can take action.

Addressing the ongoing mental health catastrophe in entrepreneurship is wise for investors and it is our hope to transform it into a function of doing business. According to Noam Wasserman at HBS, 65 percent of failed startups fail for avoidable reasons like co-founder conflict. All of these experiences are exacerbated when founders are in a time of high mental and emotional strain. Today is more true than ever.

Let’s assume that in a portfolio of 20 companies, 15 of them fail or underperform and that Noam Wasserman’s 65 percent statistic holds true. That would mean that 10 of the 15 companies (65 percent) failed for avoidable “human-centric” reasons. If a firm were able to help even half of those companies avoid failure caused by burnout and mental strain, that would mean an additional five companies would be successful, doubling the number of successful outcomes in the portfolio.

Even if you’re a pessimist, to help change the trajectory for one out of 10 companies changes the portfolio from five winners to six. In other words, supporting founders before their “people problems” become business problems yields a 20 percent improvement in performance.

About the Genius in Action Program
We are supporting founders to make the most of these next few, very critical, weeks. We support their journey towards clarifying what are the right next moves within their specific set of circumstances. We help founders clarify the kind of offering and value proposition that makes most sense under these market conditions.

We also help founders clarify their current strengths, gain a better sense of their blind spots, internal conflicts and get a better grip of the external reality. We ease their journey towards adjusting to this new normal. Even in the midst of what could be perceived as chaos, we want founders to spot opportunities and propulse growth. We believe it can be achieved if founders allow themselves to open up to possibilities and are willing to engage in this journey with us.

Within 9 weeks, founders get a better sense of what works and what makes sense in these circumstances to fuel growth. In 9 weeks, founders will have a roadmap specific to their environment and strengths that will simplify the adjustments needed to thrive in the "new normal".

Our approach is fast, agile and focused on getting founders quickly into taking action. To show you how fast we can go, we will just start now. This is about getting comfortable with refining strategy, accelerating the speed of adjustment, clarifying next immediate steps to propulse growth.

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