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TBL Ventures, LLC
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Private Equity & Venture Capital
Provide stewardship for the portfolio investment assets by acting as a point of contact with business partners and by maintaining accountability for the financial and operational performance of underlying companies. Also, serve in deal scouting, diligence and structuring capacities. Excellent communicator, oral and written. Concise writer and editor of pitches, briefs, offering memorandum and investor communications. Curious, collaborative, lifelong learner with investor traits of humility, rationality and patience.
Business Advisors Help You With Your
Business Transformation
& Growth Plans
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Growth Planning & Performance Improvement
Supporting Early Stage, High Growth companies to publicly traded Fortune 500 companies looking for new viewpoints in growth and performance improvement. Assistance with product and market development, defining customer value propositions, client relationship building, customer insights, sustainability planning and more. Seasoned Goldman Sachs 10KSB business advisor and coach to business owners that span manufacturing, retail, technology, health care, and food and agriculture.
Product Commercialization
Help is here for foreign companies looking to commercialize and land their technology or products in the US marketplace. This includes finding superior Midwest Locations for Manufacturing, Warehousing and Distribution. We can also help source products and inputs here in the U.S. and help scale your international business abroad.
Transformation Consulting
Support is here to make the business changes you need. You can count on our over 20 years working on boards of directors, setting the vision, validating the business model, building the team, setting the financial controls, and scaling businesses.
Transformation Consulting
Support is here to help identify and make the business changes you need. You can count on over 20 years working on boards of directors and C-Suite Teams: A) setting the vision B) validating the business model; C) building the team; establishing prudent financial controls; and D) scaling businesses smartly.
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Seeking the Strategy That Will Transform Your Business?
Through transformation consulting with a animal nutrition product that was 50% water, we found that by removing the water a triple bottom line improvement was reached by lowering transportation costs, improving product performance, and increasing the value of the product 10x. We can provide transformation strategies that are right for your business.
Pivot To Growth via Growth Plan Development
Assess Your Current Business Situation & Unmet Customer Needs/Wants
Apply Triple Bottom Line Thinking to Your Business
Plan for Business Succession, Governance, Key Personnel Needs, or Ownership Changes
Want To Check In On Your Wealth Building Plan?
Build long-term wealth while facilitating and optimizing the qualitative and quantitative services (manager selection, asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, tax, fiduciary, compliance, estate planning, trust administration, philanthropic, financial education programming, wealth transfer strategies, etc.) that can help UHNW families to institutions build new capacities (human capital, intellectual capital, social capital, financial capital).
Looking for a Business Succession Plan?
We help family enterprises and midwestern businesses who are in transition. Get seasoned consultant support to help you navigate operational issues, personal and ownership succession, governance issues, technology issues, product issues, and customer issues to secure your lasting legacy.
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Contact our dedicated team and receive a complementary evaulation.
Get custom strategic transformation plan recommendations that are right for your situation.
Advance with your team of experts that guide you through the entire process, adding outside experts when needed.
Business Transformation Strategies
Transformation Clients & Partners
Learn More About TBL Ventures Triple Bottom Line Business Philosophy
Looking for a Grounded Business Advisor to Help you Assess your Business, Product Development Process, Product/Market Fit, or Discover Overlooked Customer Needs?
Capitalize on your growth potential with a twenty-plus year business transformation expert. Imagine drawing from the combined wisdom of Jeff Bezos’s focus on the customer, to Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s drive for superior capital allocation, to Dale Carnegie’s keys for building high performance teams. Fill your sails with wind and transform your organization with growth and sustainability principles.
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What Business Transformation Clients Are Saying
Paul Rottenberg
John has been a great resource for us at Orchestrate Hospitality. He has a solid process for listening, digesting facts and coming back with well thought out observations and strategies.
President at Orchestrate Hospitality
Bing Bang #WeCreate
John Norwood stands out for his good judgment about both people and numbers. He asks the right questions, but perhaps more importantly understands how people behave in organizations and in markets.
Dan Winegarden
City Manager of City of West Des Moines
John is a sensational resource helping our company in developing strategies and connecting us with potential (customer) contacts.
Latha Kumar
President at Zamorins Solutions
Work with Your Team Through the Entire Process, Adding Outside Expertise When Needed
Use Your Team or Ours!
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New Customer Discovery & Relationship Development
Business and Competitive Intelligence
Due Diligence Field Work & Scuttlebutt Research
Marketing Plans, Business Plans, Contracts, Business Correspondences
Board of Director Service or Representation
Temporary Operational Roles
TBL = Triple Bottom Line Thinking. People, Planet, Profits
John is an amazingly insightful and experienced strategist and adviser. He is one of those folks that just make the people around them smarter by making them think more.
Nick Allard
Director Incubation Services at John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center
John is a creative thinker, a quick study, and I’d recommend him in situations where business acumen, customer discovery and problem solving is a key need.
Tom Hadden
John is top notch: level headed, calm, very rational and deliberate, a first class intelligence. I very much enjoyed working with him and would do so again in an instant.
Steve Ringlee
Managing Director at Centesimus Capital LLC
Building Value. Delivering Solutions.