Scaling Your Startup – When & How

Dr. Theresa Ashby has dedicated her efforts to helping companies and individuals enter the billion-dollar e-learning and digital product market. She helps her clients use digital products for business sustainability and scalability. With her offerings, The Systematic Method for Building an E-Course That Sells, and How to Effortless Build An Engaging Community, she created a business that serves clients around the world, while earning loyal clients and followers who value her “straight-forward” and “genuine” advice. She says, anyone who has a powerful message, can create business results that are reliable, repeatable, and worth celebrating. The time for you to enter the digital arena is now!  Her best story is well suited to our topic on April 5:  “Client success stories on how they built a scalable model, leveraged their intellectual capital and generated passive income. I can’t wait to help your audience grow their business to the level they dream about.”

MassVentures is one of the oldest ventures firms in the US. As a quasi-public we have an evergreen fund that provides patient capital. Beyond venture capital, we also manage several grant programs and a loan program. By statute, our funds are limited to MA companies. Our mission focus on early-stage tough-tech and diverse founders. Previously, she served as the Director of the SBIR Center of Excellence at the UMass Lowell Research Institute. The Center helps small companies get non-dilutive, early-stage funding through the SBIR process (Small Business Innovation Research grants and contracts). Prior to her work with the SBIR Center, she had a career in materials science and applied physics, in the arena of crystalline materials for semiconductors, optics, and sensors. She also was a startup co-founder, and worked for businesses large and small. In her previous job, she won over $6M in SBIR funding, and brought novel nuclear detectors to commercialization. In addition to her full-time role at Nass Ventures, she is a mentor at MassChallenge Boston, Greentown Labs, MassMedic, Cleantech Open, M2D2.  M. She has a BS in Materials Science from MIT.

Kristin Luck is a serial marketing technology and services entrepreneur with three private equity backed exits. She is known for building innovative technology led companies that scale quickly through non-traditional sales and marketing techniques.

Kristin currently serves as an advisor and growth strategist to a slew of cutting-edge marketing and analytics technology and services firms through her growth strategy and M&A advisory firm, ScaleHouse. She is a founder focused on helping fellow founders and executive teams scale and monetize their businesses and works frequently with firms in international markets to execute their entry into the U.S. Kristin is also a licensed investment banker with Oberon Securities where her deal expertise comes from participating in both acquisitions and exits valued from $30M to $225M.

Kristin is the President of ESOMAR, and the Founder of Women in Research, a non-profit committed to driving diversity, equity and inclusion globally for its 14,000+ community members. She is consistently ranked as one of the top 100 sales and branding experts to follow on social media.