Turning Chief Everything Officers into Chief Executive Officers
The Entrepreneurs' Center (EC) is a key startup accelerator and innovation hub in Dayton, Ohio, supporting a wide portfolio of early-stage companies.
While EC provided funding, mentorship, and business support, there was a major gap in creative services—startups lacked access to high-quality marketing, branding, and strategy resources. EC needed a cost-effective way to offer these services without building an internal agency.
By embedding fractional creative leadership (including a CMO and Strategy Officer) directly into EC's operational workflow, CXO enabled EC to extend its services beyond traditional advising. Our C-Team worked with EC leadership to create a new support pipeline, offering startups access to real marketing strategy, brand development, websites, and pitch decks.
Our specialist network executed each project, ensuring startups received professional-grade work typically out of reach for early-stage businesses. CXO’s model let EC scale this creative offering flexibly, with no overhead.
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