Our Vision
The vision of New Venture Lab is to assist Christian families as follows:
- Facilitate reform of Christian family life to its Biblical form. 1
- Equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up and maturing the body of Christ. 2
- Effect a right and true view of, and motivation for, work and wealth - one that flows out a steward's heart of service to the Lord and directs all glory back to Him for any resulting success. 3
- Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. 4
- Seek and yield fruitfulness in all areas of family and business life in order to glorify God. 5
2. Eph 4:12-13
3. Col 3:23-24, Prov 3:9-10, Ecc 5:10, Luke 16:13, 1Ti 6:9-19
4. Col 1:10
5. Gen 1:26-28, 1 Chr 29:11-13, Prov 15:6, 13:22, 22:29, John 15:8,16
Our Founder - Wade Myers
Wade has over 25 years of extensive military, academic, consulting, operational, entrepreneurial and investor experience:
Military experience - He served as an Airborne Ranger in the U.S. Army and is a decorated combat veteran that studied and implemented military tactics and strategy as a soldier and troop commander. He also authored new military doctrine and speaks on the application of military strategy to the business world.
Academic experience - He holds three degrees including an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar (top 5% of the class). He was a business case author for Harvard and helped develop one of Harvard's executive education courses. During his time at Harvard, he read and analyzed thousands of business cases across many industries and learned to be a student of business.
Consulting experience - He worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 executives while working at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world's leading strategy consulting firms. During his time at BCG, he analyzed many business issues in various industries and across many disciplines and was involved in several large-scale business transformations and innovations that created tremendous value for his clients.
Operational experience - He rose rapidly in the ranks from a territory sales representative to a national marketing executive in a Fortune 5 company where he was trained in, mastered, managed, and taught successful sales and marketing techniques.
Entrepreneurial experience - He has founded or co-founded over 20 companies and been the CEO of five early-stage ventures that he founded including one that grew into a global IT services company prior to being sold. He has experienced both success and failure as an entrepreneur and he has worked hard to capture those hard-won lessons learned throughout the New Venture Lab content to pass along to other entrepreneurs.
Investor experience - He has been an active venture investor and worked with both venture capital and private equity funds. Besides his venture-backed and private equity-backed entrepreneurial pursuits, he has served as a venture partner, the chairman of a venture capital fund and a board member of an $850 million investment fund. As an investor, he has reviewed thousands of business plans and business models and desired to create a framework for developing a more methodical approach to evaluating and launching business opportunities.
“I’ve watched Wade and observed what he does to try to figure out why he is so effective at what he does and I think the answer is that he is so disciplined at documenting everything. He observes, he takes notes, he assimilates and he is able to articulate the bottom line very clearly. He has done a great job with New Venture Lab and it is what is needed for the hour.”
