partnering with CREATIVE HQ
We run an intensive 12-24 month programme designed to get your business ready for high growth and prepare you to take your venture to global markets.
You will share your vision, hurdles and successes with an exclusive crop of talented, driven entrepreneurs whose companies are on the same challenging journey as yours. We will help you build and fund a plan for success, establish the foundations for growth, then help you go to market in New Zealand and offshore.
What does it take?
Creative HQ is looking for stellar business opportunities with global potential. Businesses that have the potential to grow to $10m+ within five years. Our target businesses have:
- A remarkable idea that amazes and astounds us
- A clear target market that is well understood
- Strong competitive advantage
- An intellectual property-based or first to market play
- Great financial projections that demonstrate high growth potential
- A clear plan about how you intend to go about it
- A great founder with a rounded team or the ability to build a great team
"The founding team is as important as the idea itself."We are open to ideas from any source and have great experience working with businesses in IT, web, publishing, digital media, SaaS, recruitment, mobile apps, financial products, FMCG, food and beverage, apparel and various technologies including nanotech, cleantech and bio-sciences.
Check out the critical success factors we see in winning startups.
In our experience, the founding team is just as important as the idea itself. Successful entrepreneurs are self-aware and willing to develop themselves as much as their company.
Dave Moskovitz, chair of WebFund and a member of Angel HQ, was asked recently what makes him sit up and pay attention to a business? Dave's reply - " A small, focused team with passion, pragmatism, experience, empathy and charisma who are throwing everything they've got at realising their dream".....read the whole article.
Where will you be based?
You can be part of the inhouse community of entrepreneurs, setting up next to other startups and surrounding yourself with the real deal. Renting a desk is economic and keeps you close to the flame. Most ventures like this option, but if you have to be elsewhere you can set up off-site, and access a hot desk in Creative HQ whenever you need it. Services and Fees Attachment.
Partnership
In the highly-entrepreneurial incubator environment, a commercial relationship is important to ensure that the services we offer are valued and tested by the client businesses we support. It also ensures the incubator’s activities are clearly aligned with the best outcome for the entrepreneur. As such, our inductees agree to Creative HQ becoming a 5-10% equity holder in their business as part of our agreement to work together.
