StartupMentoring

The Right Assistance At The Right Time

Whether you are building a high-tech startup or growing a high-potential small business (also known as a scaleup), our diverse team of investors, marketing professionals, talent recruiters, mentors and advisors offers vast experience across a wide range of industries.

No matter the challenge you’re facing, we’ve been there before.

Scaleup Services

At DIREC, we work with diverse, ambitious businesses across a variety of sectors to unlock their full potential and grow aggressively; we offer market research, sales, marketing, talent, and growth planning. DIREC has helped grow small manufacturing companies through hands-on consulting services including engineering, commercialization, workforce, lean, and sales and marketing.

Experience

For more than a decade, DIREC has been helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses by providing access to capital and high-impact operational assistance, including talent. Our team has the expertise and the connections to help you grow aggressively and sustainably.

Flexible Fee Structures

We know that fast growing businesses need to conserve cash. That’s why we structure our fees to offer maximum flexibility, including the ability to defer payment until pre-determined success milestones have been achieved.

What Is A Scaleup?

If your business is six or more months old, employs between 1 and 100 people, earns more than $20,000 in revenue and is cash flow positive (or close to it), it meets our definition of a scaleup.

What Sets Our Process Apart

Whether you are a high-tech startup or an established business with great growth prospects, you need entrepreneurial talent – the unique kind of talent that thrives in unpredictable situations, elevates under pressure and adapts well to rapid changes in direction.

At DIREC, we know what top entrepreneurial talent looks like, because we work with entrepreneurs every day.

WE KNOW ENTREPRENEURS

We’ve spent more than a decade working with entrepreneurs. We’ve matched employees with early-stage, high-growth companies at a vulnerable time when every new hire can make or break a young venture

FLEXIBLE FEE STRUCTURE

Entrepreneurs live and die by cash flow. Often they need the influx of talent before they can afford to pay fees to a recruiter. Our flexible pricing structure fills in where the private sector can’t, requiring less money upfront and even deferring fees until success milestones have been met.

ENHANCED TALENT SERVICES

Our work doesn’t end once your employee starts. Not only do we assist in finding the perfect candidates, we also provide the services that allow those candidates to become and stay successful within your company.

Startup Mentoring