Steve Franks
Innovation Process Creation | Entrepreneur Advising | Business Author
Innovation Process Creation
Before moving to entrepreneur coaching, I worked as an innovation consultant for 6 years, helping Fortune 500 companies invent breakthrough next-generation products and customer experiences.You know your field - I know how to develop innovation in any field.I can help your company establish a process for producing innovations year after year. I'll work hands-on with you to get your process up and running, then cheer you on from the sidelines.
Entrepreneur Advising
Over 20 years I've coached roughly 4,000 startup entrepreneurs and founded several startup venture accelerators around Northeast Indiana.You're the domain expert - I'm the experienced startup advisor.I can help you think through your startup business model and plus up your strategy.
Business Author
My essays and articles about Entrepreneurship and Innovation are published at Substack. Go read and subscribe!For all of you bootstrapping entrepreneurs, I've published 2 DIY E-Books to help startup founders and product innovators "coach themselves" - for the price of a few lattes.
About Me
A resident of Fort Wayne, Indiana, I have nearly always worked around entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology.The first company I started was a software company. Since then I have started or co-started several companies or programs:- a technology accelerator program
- a co-working space
- several venture accelerators
- 2 student entrepreneur programs.I hold an MBA from the University of Chicago's Booth Graduate School of Business with concentrations in marketing and finance. Upon graduation I was awarded the 1996 George Hay Brown Outstanding Marketing Scholar Prize.The icon for this section is a caricature by a talented young artist, Ashton Weir
@ash.art_0303 on Instagram.