"Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast"
DAB Ventures' Core Values are:
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Established in 2003...
In 2003, Doug Bloom founded DAB Ventures to advise CEOs of emerging businesses, their investors, and other wealth creators by bringing their focus to the "the Four C's" (TM) which create successful organizational cultures:
Clarity ⁕ Congruence ⁕ Communication ⁕ Consequence
Clarity ⁕ Congruence ⁕ Communication ⁕ Consequence
Doug Bloom: Founder, Partner, Coach
The Right Approach. The Right Experience:
For 30 years, Doug has been assessing, growing and leading early-stage organizations through rapid growth. Throughout, Doug has emphasized: communicating the vision; clarifying organizational values; understanding personalities, motivations and skill sets to assess leaders and build strong teams; defining "target customer" characteristics; defining the factors which drive revenue growth and profit margin; and identifying and tracking LEADING indicators which correlate with growth and profit.
Doug's core philosophy is "the players make the plan". According to Doug, "Our BEST opportunities to make a lasting, positive impact on our organizations is when we hire, fire and assign roles and responsibilities!" Doug believes organizations set themselves up for failure when they fail to "screen on IQ and hire on EQ". Doug has made the hiring process a focus during his leadership experiences. He has directly led the hiring process for more than 400 sales, marketing, account management, engineering and operations employees and executives across multiple, rapid-growth organizations.
Doug knows the loneliness of the corner office. Doug was the CEO of VC-backed, early-stage company, RealWinWin, a B2B energy-services company which served more than 125 national-brand, Fortune-500, multi-site retail and retail service companies, their vendors and their utility providers throughout the United States and Canada. From 2006 to 2016, Doug led RealWinWin from ten employees to more than forty at peak, and from losses to sustainability and an eventual sale.
Prior to RealWinWin, Doug held senior level sales management positions in the Telecom/Internet industry. At RCN, a cable-based LEC out of Princeton, NJ, Doug led the doubling of RCN's Commercial nationwide sales and sales operations staffs while doubling revenues across thirteen locations in less than three years. At TCG, Doug drafted the plan and grew a regional telecom services sales and marketing group from zero to 40 headcount in a ten-month period and met quota in the first full year of operation.
Doug's other corporate background includes successful start-up, fundraising, growth management, corporate acquisition, corporate investment, and corporate exit experiences across many industries including: energy services; business software and services; internet services; collectibles; and telecom. Doug's Board experiences include: multiple private Boards; non-profit Boards; representing investor groups on Boards; as an executive reporting to the Board.
Doug has consulted with early-stage, privately-held business owners and executives off-and-on for roughly one-third of his career. The experience has ranged across the breadth of culture issues and growth challenges faced by an early-stage company, from board room issues to the challenges on the shop floor: values, mission and strategy development; business plan development; business development / fundraising; portfolio and candidate investment evaluations; investment strategy and management; and (years ago) software design and development.
Doug's early career includes: software development supporting Pharmaceutical Research, Venture Capital and internships on Wall Street. Doug holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA degree from Colgate University.
For 30 years, Doug has been assessing, growing and leading early-stage organizations through rapid growth. Throughout, Doug has emphasized: communicating the vision; clarifying organizational values; understanding personalities, motivations and skill sets to assess leaders and build strong teams; defining "target customer" characteristics; defining the factors which drive revenue growth and profit margin; and identifying and tracking LEADING indicators which correlate with growth and profit.
Doug's core philosophy is "the players make the plan". According to Doug, "Our BEST opportunities to make a lasting, positive impact on our organizations is when we hire, fire and assign roles and responsibilities!" Doug believes organizations set themselves up for failure when they fail to "screen on IQ and hire on EQ". Doug has made the hiring process a focus during his leadership experiences. He has directly led the hiring process for more than 400 sales, marketing, account management, engineering and operations employees and executives across multiple, rapid-growth organizations.
Doug knows the loneliness of the corner office. Doug was the CEO of VC-backed, early-stage company, RealWinWin, a B2B energy-services company which served more than 125 national-brand, Fortune-500, multi-site retail and retail service companies, their vendors and their utility providers throughout the United States and Canada. From 2006 to 2016, Doug led RealWinWin from ten employees to more than forty at peak, and from losses to sustainability and an eventual sale.
Prior to RealWinWin, Doug held senior level sales management positions in the Telecom/Internet industry. At RCN, a cable-based LEC out of Princeton, NJ, Doug led the doubling of RCN's Commercial nationwide sales and sales operations staffs while doubling revenues across thirteen locations in less than three years. At TCG, Doug drafted the plan and grew a regional telecom services sales and marketing group from zero to 40 headcount in a ten-month period and met quota in the first full year of operation.
Doug's other corporate background includes successful start-up, fundraising, growth management, corporate acquisition, corporate investment, and corporate exit experiences across many industries including: energy services; business software and services; internet services; collectibles; and telecom. Doug's Board experiences include: multiple private Boards; non-profit Boards; representing investor groups on Boards; as an executive reporting to the Board.
Doug has consulted with early-stage, privately-held business owners and executives off-and-on for roughly one-third of his career. The experience has ranged across the breadth of culture issues and growth challenges faced by an early-stage company, from board room issues to the challenges on the shop floor: values, mission and strategy development; business plan development; business development / fundraising; portfolio and candidate investment evaluations; investment strategy and management; and (years ago) software design and development.
Doug's early career includes: software development supporting Pharmaceutical Research, Venture Capital and internships on Wall Street. Doug holds an MBA from the Wharton School, an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA degree from Colgate University.