How the Global Innovation Dojo came about and why
Chris & Ken
The Dojo is a new entity founded by the leadership of USMAC and the UC Berkeley Sutradja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology (SCET). It was created in response to the unique challenges our leadership team experienced, first-hand, in working with founders in emerging ecosystems.
Our program designs draw all USMAC’s expertise and experience and combines it with SCET’s founder training pedagogy to accelerate the process of developing high-potential individuals into high-potential founders.
Chris Burry, CEO US Market Access Center & Founder of Global Innovation Dojo. 9 tech startups. 3 exits including 1 unicorn.
Ken Singer, Managing Director of the UC Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. Internationally recognized entrepreneurship education and the co author of the Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship, used to educate startup founders at 12 universities around the world.
Lazaridis Scale Readiness Program
In 2016, USMAC designed and delivered 2 cycles of the Lazaridis Scaleup Program. It utilized our Scale Readiness framework. The premise of the program is that once the startup has achieved product market fit, the founders need to transition from being “product builders” to “company builders.”
The skills needed are different. The mindset is different. And this is a moment of incredible risk to the company. This is why you see startups that raise $50m, $100m, $200m and then shut down.
The program was an incredible success. Out of the twenty (20) companies in the 2 cohorts, 14 are still in business. two (2) were acquired.
Now
Bring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination. At the end of the day, going forward, a new normal that has evolved from generation X is on the runway heading towards a streamlined cloud solution. User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test. Override the digital divide with additional clickthroughs.
Podcasting operational change management inside of workflows to establish a framework. Taking seamless key performance indicators offline to maximise the long tail. User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify. Keeping your eye on the ball while performing a deep dive on the start-up mentality to derive convergence on cross-platform integration.
Current
Global Innocation Dojo has established its African Headquarters in Abuja Nigeria.
USMAC’s country manager in Nigeria has 20+ years of experience as a strategy consultant for both the government and major corporations.
The most interesting relationship is with the Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology. One of the tasks assigned to the Ministry to search the world for innovation that can be brought to Nigeria to help alleviate some of the challenges the country faces. This mandate comes directly from the President of Nigeria.
We are also delivering Founder Dojo Imo, in Owerri, Imo State starting 2025.
Our Latest Projects
Stanben
Perfect Design
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Ultra Responsive
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Free Test-Drive
Credibly innovate granular internal or “organic” sources whereas high standards in web-readiness. Energistically scale future-proof core competencies impactful experiences.
Sva
Bring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination. At the end of the day, going forward, a new normal that has evolved from generation X is on the runway heading towards a streamlined cloud solution.
User generated content in real-time will have multiple touchpoints for offshoring. Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test. Override the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from DevOps.
Collaboratively administrate empowered markets via plug-and-play networks. Dynamically procrastinate B2C users after installed base benefits. Dramatically visualize customer directed convergence without revolutionary ROI.