As an intrepid innovator, you already know that 75% of US venture-backed startups fail. They face a wide-ranging, rocky path to get to exponential growth and ultimate venture success.
But there is hope. We can help you beat the odds and cross the critical milestones to reach success.
That’s why we created Milestone Crossing™, a new kind of venture growth advisory firm. We help innovators like you and your team better navigate the growth gauntlet of risk and uncertainty by providing a highly curated set of venture growth advisory roles, specifically created to address the unique needs of the intrepid innovator.
OUR KEY AREAS OF INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
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Consumer/OTC Products
- dental care | personal care | pre/post-natal care | skincare | stem cell banking | sun care
- Digital Health
- sleep monitoring and coaching pioneer
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Functional Beverages, Foods & Nutraceuticals
- infant formula | nutrition | weight management | women’s health
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Healthcare Data Science & Information Technology
- artificial intelligence | data science | cybersecurity
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Healthcare Services
- behavioral health | chronic disease management | patient-driven healthcare
Where Can We Step In?
We understand the most common challenges and obstacles that innovators experience on their journey to success. Whether it’s filling in as an interim executive, board member, mentor, or venture growth consultant, Milestone Crossing partners with your organization’s CEO or corporate venture champion(s) to help close key skill or experience gaps. Bringing our insights gained from proven success as well as the wisdom that comes with past defeat, Milestone Crossing can help ensure that you strategically grow your company from start to scale.
“Dave is one of the most creative go-to-market executives I have ever worked with. He has the ability to think through complex challenges and provide clear, innovative solutions. He is a great leader, communicator and brings high-energy enthusiasm to any environment. I would recommend Dave as a CEO, mentor, or board member. He will have an immediate impact!”
- JIM HEMMER, CEO OF CREDITXPERT
What role can we play?
Click on a role below to learn more.
Interim Executive Leader >>
Temporarily close C-Suite gaps (COO, Strategy, Business Development)
Venture Growth Consultant >>
Helping venture teams cross the Seven Key Milestones
Executive Mentor >>
Mentoring CEOs with strategic advice, related experience, and contacts
Board Member >>
An independent voice on your Board
Strategic Advisory Board Creator, Leader, and/or Member >>
Create and/or lead an S.A.B., custom-built for your specific mission
Let’s Work Together.
“What impresses me most about Dave is his unique ability to see the big picture, find the Big Idea, and then lead his teams to succeed through sheer will. He is a powerful thought leader, strong relationship builder and highly respected coach and mentor many senior executives. Dave is one of the first people you want on your team.”
Interim Executive Leader
Need some temporary help in the C-suite? We’ll step in to help close detrimental gaps in leadership as your interim or part-time COO, CMO, or Head of Strategy and/or Business Development.
Time is not on the side of the intrepid innovator, and the well-proven principle of “hire slow, fire fast” can drive new ventures into high-risk, high opportunity cost talent gaps for significant stretches of time. Nowhere is this more costly than at the executive level, where the venture team’s continued innovation, strategy, financing, operations, business development, and customer growth can ill afford to miss a beat or fall short of executing with excellence.
Our robust experience comes from large corporate innovation ventures at Arm & Hammer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Johnson & Johnson, and UnitedHealth Group, as well as within dozens of startups as CEO, COO, Board Director, Executive-In-Residence, and Mentor.
Venture Growth Consultant
As your Venture Growth Consultant, we’ll provide extra support that complements the existing talents and skills of your team to ensure that you make better, smarter decisions and improve your success rate within mission-critical initiatives. We are especially equipped to support venture teams looking for:
Business Strategy
Finding your company’s “Big Idea”
Product Roadmap & Services Innovation
Go-To-Market Strategy (Marketing, Sales, Partnerships)
Strategic Partnerships
Executive Mentor
As your Executive Mentor, we’ll bring all of our battle-tested experience to your venture and deliver actionable business advice to help you elevate your decision-making and strategy. We do more than just mentor the CEO—we can be your team’s advisor, coach, confidant, facilitator, sounding board, and thought leader.
With your success at the core of our efforts, we’ll assess your team’s unique needs, and then make the necessary adjustments, if needed, to ensure we’re a good fit.
With so many plates to juggle, we’ll step in to guide you along the way so nothing drops.
Board Member
For select clients, we can serve as an independent voice on your company’s Board of Directors. Milestone Crossing founder Dave Dickinson has extensive new venture Board Director experience. He’s successfully raised venture capital financing and has served as a senior executive on numerous large corporate management teams. As an independent board director, our experience and expertise will bolster and benefit your company’s strategy and business model. You’ll also gain an objective, trusted, expert voice, dedicated to listening to and then speaking on behalf of your customer’s voice within key board decision-making processes.
Strategic Advisory Board Creator, Leader, and/or Member
Did you know that strategic advisory boards, purposefully formed outside of the company’s existing Board of Directors, can be one of the most powerful secret weapons on the CEO’s balance sheet? We have significant experience in creating, and if necessary leading, strategic advisory boards. We’ll build a strategic advisory board for your venture so that you have the right experts weighing in on your action plan.
As an early pioneer of the digital health movement and CEO of Zeo, Inc., Milestone Crossing founder Dave Dickinson and the Zeo strategic advisory board created internal regulatory standards, accessible consumer language, new types of consumer research, and novel go-to-market strategies.
One of our most valuable contributions to a high growth venture team is highly-curated strategic advice that’s specifically relevant to its industry vertical, business model, go-to-market strategy, and customer base.
With our expert guidance and insight, we’ll help you maximize your outcome to achieve high-growth success.
Are you ready to take the leap?
Contact us today to take the leap to higher growth!
