About
Startup Mojave
Our Mission
Startup Mojave’s mission is to instigate and nurture a thriving startup community and an entrepreneurial ecosystem in which innovative new ventures will grow.
Our Goals
Our primary goals are to:
• Facilitate the creation of net new entrepreneurs
• Increase the quantity, quality, and velocity of entrepreneurial experiments
• Instigate a wave of new technology ventures, from idea to scale
• Nurture an increasingly connected innovation ecosystem of support
• Support existing businesses with digital transformation, growth, and expansion.
Entrepreneurs
Startup Mojave supports entrepreneurs by:
● Nurturing the personal growth and skills development of individuals
● Curating the resources necessary to test business ideas and prototype products and services
● Connecting the talent required to form strong teams and explore opportunities for innovation
VENTURES
Startup Mojave supports team formation and business venture development by:
● Offering a wide range of practical educational events and programs to support key roles and skills
● Hosting competitive team-based events like startup weekend and hackathons to drive momentum
● Nurturing a regional angel / VC investor network and other funding sources
● Helping startups identify and access the resources they need from conception to maturity
Ecosystem
Startup Mojave nurtures the regional entrepreneurial ecosystem by:
● Connecting existing stakeholders into an engaged and functional system of relationships
● Identifying gaps in our ecosystem and facilitating ways to fill them
● Facilitating shifts in our regional mindset around collaboration and transparency
● Connecting the regional ecosystem to national and global pipelines
Thriving Ecosystem
We envision a thriving regional ecosystem in which every part of the innovation pipeline from lab to market is well represented, connected, and engaged in support of both existing and new ventures from conception to global export.
Startup Mojave is playing a critical role in regional ecosystem development by engaging the full range of stakeholder types.
Stakeholders in an entrepreneurial ecosystem include talent groups, educational institutions, civic leadership, workspaces, funding sources, industry partners, infrastructure, events and programs, community groups and organizations, and more.
We are nurturing their roles as active participants in collaboration around innovation initiatives and toward participation in national pipelines and global commerce.
As we identify the community’s needs — resource and relationship gaps in our regional entrepreneurial ecosystem — we develop initiatives to address them.
Community initiatives include things like themes we seek to emphasize, mindset shifts we need to nurture, and resources to create or curate to support our founders and teams.
Commercial initiatives include a wide range of strategic partnerships, and experimentation through pilot programs and new ventures.
We need your help to accurately assess and meaningfully address our ecosystem’s needs, and develop strategies to leverage strengths.
Explore our existing initiatives. Find a place to get involved.
Our Methodology
Startup Mojave is building community around innovative entrepreneurship and an ecosystem of robust support.
This effort includes activities which connect and educate people and groups, the curation and creation of opportunities and resources, and the celebration of experimentation and success to make our efforts visible and accessible.
1. Connect everyone
Our events, programs, and activities are designed to create, enhance, and sustain community and stakeholder relationships — and through them nurture a collaborative, regional ecosystem mindset.
We are attentive to all stakeholder types, as well as the many stages between the lab and the marketplace.
2. Create Opportunities
As we connect the ecosystem we continually discover a variety of opportunities. We seek to curate and create these opportunities, help new or experienced entrepreneurs explore them, help them form teams to test them, and help them establish companies around them.
We instigate collaboration by connecting resources into “lab to market” pipelines, and nurture initial projects to ensure short and long term wins.
Startup Mojave the organization does not seek equitable participation in new ventures. Our role is to connect, instigate, and celebrate the work of community members and ecosystem partners.
3. Celebrate Publicly
We make our work, our stakeholders’ work, and the results highly visible, accessible, attractive, and contagious. We believe that when people see and understand what we’re doing, more innovators and entrepreneurs will emerge and engage.
We celebrate not only big, impressive wins, but also various unsuccessful attempts at innovation. Every experiment is an opportunity for learning and growth.
