Silicon Valley Global Advisory
We leverage our team's experience and vast network of Silicon Valley experts to help international clients unleash their innovation capabilities, access new markets, establish strategic partnerships, and accelerate global growth.
What We've Seen
Our experience working with dozens of companies over many decades has led us to a few insights:
How to kill innovation:
Rely on political connections rather than market potential.
Hierarchy and discipline:
Reluctance to take chances, bend the rules, and occasionally fly under the radar.
Ignoring market feedback:
Developing solutions that are technically impressive but commercially irrelevant.
Short-term focus over long-term vision:
Delaying the development of groundbreaking technologies for fear of cannibalizing existing products.
Underestimating the importance of a learning culture:
Not fostering continuous learning, knowledge sharing, and acceptance of failure.
Neglecting diversity in thought and background:
A homogeneous team may converge quickly on solutions but will likely suffer from a lack of imagination and miss out on the bigger opportunities.
The curse of success:
The key to navigating continuous change is knowing when to commit and when to let go.
Distance from technology innovation hubs:
Being geographically or organizationally removed from key technological centers delays information and limits a company's ability to stay abreast of fast-breaking developments.
Overemphasis on proprietary technology:
Overly relying on aggressive IP policies.
A technology cluster is not an ecosystem:
As in biology, a true ecosystem is defined by the interdependency of diverse inhabitants.
“The Silicon Valley of…”:
Practices that have proven successful in one region may map poorly onto deeply embedded cultural values of another.
About us
With decades of technical, executive, and academic research experience in Silicon Valley, the multidisciplinary partners at Bridge2, supported by our unrivalled network of experts, focus on practical solutions customized to drive rapid success for our clients.
How We Work
Rather than a menu of services, we offer targeted expertise and a results oriented toolkit that deliver effective support in strategy development, market exploration and development, strategic partnerships, and leadership best practices.
Some of our past work:
Technology in search of a market.
We have helped numerous companies find use-case scenarios that allowed them to test the market early before translating emerging technologies into market-ready solutions.
From Dead-End to Open Road.
We drew upon Silicon Valley’s unique spirit of collaboration and concentrated talent to help an anti-fraud payment system resolve a formidable encryption problem.
Connecting the dots.
We connected a wearables entrepreneur with expert engineering firms and manufacturing capabilities to develop fast prototypes, test markets, and accelerate commercialization.
Integrating all your business units.
We enabled a diversified European telecom conglomerate to establish an outpost in Silicon Valley which became a home for all its other business units.
Grow or spin.
We advised a mid-sized European analytics company that it may be wiser to sell its technology to a global enterprise than to invest in scaling their services.
Sprint to market.
We have set up pricing strategies, a support infrastructure, and a lead generation process to help a European sensors company navigate the complex American regulatory environment.
Not the market you thought about.
A textile company had created what it thought was a potential market differentiator; we agreed, but showed them that their most promising market was not what they expected.
Let's Talk
As a highly customized, client-centered organization, Bridge2 operates mainly through referrals. If you are interested in learning more about our services, and how they may enhance your business, we invite you to reach out to any of our partners:
Patrick Consorti, Managing Partner. Patrick is a seasoned Silicon Valley-based executive who built worldwide operations for global technology companies in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He has spent the last fifteen years helping over 50 non-US companies to capitalize on Silicon Valley innovation techniques and accelerate their growth.
Hamid Farzaneh, Founding Partner. Hamid is a serial entrepreneur who has built successful companies in Silicon Valley, Europe, and Asia. A veteran of the semiconductor and IOT industries, he is passionate about helping other entrepreneurs bring to market technologies, products and solutions that enhance people's lives.
Daniel Chatelain, Strategic Partner (FinTech). Daniel is an executive in the Payment and Fintech industry, founder of The BayPay Forum to foster innovation and currently the CEO of PayKademy, Daniel also serves as a mentor at 500 Startups, Plug&Play, and Berkeley Venture Capital Group.
Barry Katz, Strategic Partner (Design and Innovation). Barry’s career includes 40 years in the Design Group at Stanford, 30 years at California College of the Arts, and 20 years as Fellow at IDEO, Inc. He is the author of eight books and consults with governments, companies, and academic institutions worldwide.
Jim Myrick, Strategic Partner (Rapid Prototyping). Jim is an inventor, entrepreneur, investor, and open innovation co-creator. He is a founding partner of SeriousFun and Neue Labs, a no-code platform for hardware in Sweden. He is involved in hardware innovation and prototyping at Studio 45 and Shack 15 in San Francisco.
Christian Martin, Strategic Partner (Business Strategy). Christian is an expert in business development and M&A with experiences at IBM, Oracle, Disrupt4style, and Alchemist Accelerator. He integrates tech innovation with strategic business insights, focusing on VR/AR, IoT, smart tagging, and immersive retail solutions.
Steve Chu, Resident Entrepreneur. Steve is a strategic growth leader with deep experience across semiconductors, consumer electronics, software, social media, and web3. His international experience includes 10 years in Asia and on-site work in 30 countries.
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