FountainBlue

In our quest for fostering entrepreneurship and innovation in the high tech, life science and clean energy space, we provide consulting services to support early stage CEOs in these areas, work within corporations to support intrapreneurship and leadership from within, and prepare high-integrity, competent executives to assume board positions in prominent organizations. This page provides some background about our CEO coaching services.

We have a passion for supporting early-stage CEOs as they change the world - for the better. We only work with promising and emerging early stage clean energy, high tech and life science start-ups with a great idea, and a terrific leadership team.

FountainBlue's unique heart-head-hand model for executive coaching ensures an alignment between the passions of the CEOs, the needs of the market, and the delivery of quality results. Based on the needs of our clients, we provide in-person or over-the-phone, results-based coaching sessions which help our client companies:

• Board Facilitation: Gathering the right people around the table and facilitating a strategic discussion resulting in priorities tasks, as well as clear and specific roles and actions.
• Marketing Communications: Messaging about what you do for whom, with clarity about who you are, why you’re doing what you’re doing, who you want to serve and what you can do for them now and in the future.
• Business Development and Alliances: Identifying, prioritizing, recruiting, strategic alliance partners for three areas: financial service firms, credit unions/banks and technology companies.
• Advisory board recruitment: strategizing the best roles and people for your advisory board based on your marketing and business development objectives.
• CEO Adviser: General consultation on ongoing strategic and/or day-to-day execution challenges.
• Other?

Throughout our consulting relationship, we focus on making ongoing introductions to strategic investors, founders, partners, customers and others who can help build momentum for your early stage company.

FountainBlue's ongoing consulting services are available to a select number of early stage entrepreneurs, for a combination fee of equity-and fee. Although we limit the time and resources we can extend to any one company, and to all our entrepreneurial efforts, we hope to be of service to as many promising member companies as possible. Our technology sweet spots include:

• Business Intelligence:  Customers who leverage data to better understand and serve customers and those that serve them.
• Sustainability Through Community: Online communities focused on specific, tangible, sustainability initiatives with local impact which are replicable to other communities.
• Web 3.0 Solutions: Web 3.0 solutions which leverage the monetization, technology, personalization and community potential of Web 2.0, and takes it to the next level.
• Software Meets Healthcare: Personalized software solutions which serve the specific needs of target communities and helps physicians and providers support patients.

We also actively participate as advisory board members for our client companies. Our rates are $200/hour, sold in packets of 10 hour slots, and we generally serve as a membership of an advisory board and request some type of equity compensation. If you are a member and interested in having a conversation to discuss, please visit http://meetwith.me/lindaholroyd and suggest a good time to meet.

Well connected

• Linda’s amazing ability to connect people and ideas are helping businesses to move to the next level.  
• Linda gathers the right people for mind-shifting conversations and facilitates introductions that build companies.
• It is clearly Linda's caring nature and thoughtfulness which attracts talented individuals who share the same values.  Linda leverages this impressive network to ensure that we support each other in our quest.

Experienced

• Since she launched FountainBlue in January 2006, Linda Holroyd has connected, inspired, informed and empowered a wide swatch of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community.
• What Linda has personally done with FountainBlue in such a short period of time is nothing short of extraordinary. She models the way, walks the talk and speaks from her learnings as well as her experience.
• Linda Holroyd is an exceptionally organized, productive and positive person. She is skilled at creating and executing a plan and leveraging resources to generate amazing results, bringing all these skills with her to her recruiting and consulting practice.
• Linda has tremendous bandwidth for understanding complex technical facts well enough to converse on the business opportunities, implications and direction.
• Linda has a magical gift of cutting to the core of an issue, whether it’s a personal or professional one, with speed and efficiency and a great deal of kindness.
• Conversations with Linda are always both inspiring and mind-opening. She has done wonders for both my business and my personal life.

Strategic and collaborative

• Linda is equally impressive at articulating the vision I'm seeking, and setting things in motion to make it happen. She is scary smart and equally kind and compassionate.
• Linda always engages all stakeholders and helps them find and rally behind the win-win for everyone.
• Linda Holroyd has both a broad perspective for big ideas and the ability to do the important details to get things done. I am very supportive of her activities and her passion.  
• Linda is not only a very kind and thoughtful human being, but she is also a phenomenal business woman with the experience, connections and results to back her grand vision. Moreover, it’s so amazing to see her apply her gifts to lucky others around her!
• Linda is an entrepreneur who follows her heart, uses her brain and finds opportunities in each situation.
• Linda works with our team to identify what is either missing or not right around you, while giving us all permission to build something new for the betterment of us all.  
• Linda combines a crystal clear understanding of business management with an enormous amount of energy for producing results. She works at the speed of light, cuts through complexity, focusing on the core of what needs to be done. She can be relied upon without fail and has the highest integrity of anyone I know.

Creative, inspiring, innovative and passionate

• Linda inspires us to try new things, go beyond the comfort zone, get out there and expose ourselves to the world and constantly change and improve. She models the way, subtly but consistently, and I and others have greatly benefited from our association with Linda and FountainBlue.
• Linda has tremendous drive, a sound business sense and excellent people skills and can be counted upon to make things happen!  
• I’ve worked with hundreds of corporate executives at all levels, but Linda’s business savvy, creative ideas, collaborative style and results-orientation make her stand out.
• Linda presents information in a way that makes people see more clearly and has an extraordinary ability to translate skills into actual positions and markets. She is a powerhouse of information and full of compassionate understanding and support!
• I have never seen anyone so deeply listen, so quickly get it, and then apply it to practical ways to build momentum for my business. It is quite impressive.
• Linda's energy, positive attitude and desire to roll up her sleeves and get things done is contagious! Linda is also a good listener and an active and empathetic solution provider who is adept at connecting individuals and organizations to opportunities.
• Linda doesn’t get the technical details about our company, but her razor sharp focus on the business and people issues have fundamentally changed the way we see our business, and the direction our business is going.
• Linda is one of us. Her wise counsel is worth reading, saving, and taking to heart.