VCW Impact on Students, Start-Ups, and NGOs

Students often apply the VCW to solve challenges of start-ups and NGOs, which often do not have the resources to support consultancy projects. These partnerships provide a lot of added value for students as well as for organizations. These organizations are required to sign a mutual agreement with the VCW Lab which allows to disclose the case-study and respective data/findings. Below are some examples of these partnerships:

“The VCW increases communication with stakeholders, facilitates dialogue, facilitates students’ understanding of business difficulties, facilitates planning. Motivates (…to continue our journey).”
Alexandra Santos, owner of the start-up Livros Pangaea

The Value of VCW for a start-up non-profit association is to be able to implement a methodology that we can grow with and keep revisiting to maintain growth. It helped us structure and clearly identify our challenges and a path to solve them. We now feel more equipped to help save global ocean problems, one at a time!“
João Macedo, Co-Founder of AMA and World Surfing Reserves Movement

“The VCW clearly helped designing a battle plan for marketing in 2019. Easy to follow with a structured approach. Excelent roadmap.(…) The VCW helped with social media and presence at events (short-term impact) and comunity engagement and website enhancement (medium-term impact). (We will continue using it) as a roadmap for business strategy, determining KPIs to follow implementation (and) externally to communicate the needs and ensure everybody has a focus target. It allows to sit down and spend time thinking besides constant action.”
Cristophe Cordonnier, President of the start-up Lagoped

“The VCW is a methodology that helps to focus in every aspect of a project, company or organization within the scope of problem-solving. With the VCW we can develop solutions regardless of any constraints.”
João Valente, CEO of SURF Portugal