About Us

About Us
Venture Development Center VDC is an advisory services firm with deep experience and contacts in the information services industry.

"The rate of data collection is increasing exponentially and this offers tremendous opportunity to refine strategic and operational decision-making. As a result, the financial returns associated with the successful innovation of “Big Data” are greater today than ever before. The key to success is to understand what we call, the “Art of the Possible”- which is the ability to envision innovations, knowing where to find the necessary ingredients, and then developing a proven capability to deliver the solution."

- Dr. Charles Stryker
- Venture Development Center (VDC) is an advisory services firm that assists its clients in identifying, defining, and implementing breakthrough uses of Big Data. The VDC success story is based on the unique ability of the organization to identify new and powerful data assets from the Big Data ecosystem and then develop applications and information use cases that drive solid revenue results and transform existing business practices. The practice areas that characterize VDC projects include creating new products and revenue streams for data owners and bringing forth new information assets and strategies to educate and assist data users to adapt to the rapidly changing world of Big Data.
  
  Advisory Services
  - Evaluation of information assets
  - Define valuable data attributes
  - Identify breakthrough innovation concepts
  - Evaluate innovations
  - Develop and/or refine implementation plans
  - Identify and secure first customers
  - Recruit staff as needed
  - Evaluate initial and ongoing deployment success
  Investment Services
  - Identify sources of funding
  - Assist management in evaluating sources of funding
  - Advise management regarding acquisition and divestiture plans
- Since 1992, VDC has worked with over one hundred firms both within and outside the information services industry to identify, define, and implement innovative breakthrough strategies. VDC has created many new product, distribution, and market development ideas yielding exceptional returns for its clients. Collaboration typically involves an in-depth information asset review followed by strategy formulation, product creation, marketplace distribution, early-stage investment support, and business development.
  
  Dr. Charles Stryker and each of the members of his team have extensive experience in the information industry and a very rich network of contacts. Representative clients include: Acxiom, Adgooroo, Affinion, American List Council (ALC), American Red Cross, Appriss, BlueKai, BuildFax, Business Watch Network, Cisco, Cortera, Datamyx, EDR, Harte-Hanks, Geoscape, IBM, LexisNexis, Media1, MeritDirect, nPario, Ogilvy, Optimal, PeekYou, Profound Networks, The Retail Equation, Time and V12 Group. In addition, VDC has relationships with many early-stage firms with unique technology and/or business advantage.