Collaborative Strategies is a sixteen year old New Jersey based firm that specializes in helping communities and corporations achieve competitive advantage through new ventures and strategic alliances. As President of Collaborative Strategies, Gregg Lichtenstein has worked directly with over 700 businesses in more than 70 industries (from Fortune 1000 firms to startups, manufacturers, high-tech and service companies) as well as nonprofit organizations and local, state and national governments on venturing, incubation, business strategy, marketing and new product development.

Gregg has designed and managed a number of leading-edge business incubation systems, both virtual and facility-based, involving startups and existing companies. He has established more than three dozen strategic alliances. He has also worked with more than 200 enterprise development service providers throughout the country – including incubation programs, manufacturing extension programs, Small Business Development Centers, high tech financing programs such as the Ben Franklin Technology Centers in Pennsylvania, industrial development agencies, etc.

Gregg has served as the Research Director for the National Business Incubation Association and has published widely on entrepreneurship, economic development and strategic alliances in academic and popular business outlets. He has authored, along with his colleague Dr. Thomas Lyons, the first comprehensive reference on working with startups – Incubating New Enterprises, published by the Aspen Institute, which has also been translated into Spanish and published in South America.

In addition to having received a Ph.D. from Wharton in Entrepreneurship and Social Systems Sciences, Gregg is and continues to be an entrepreneur – having started and led two technology ventures and actively participated in four others. His intense appreciation of the entrepreneur’s perspective comes from being one himself.

All of these experiences, as well as years of applied and action research, have gone into the design of the Entrepreneurial League SystemŽ and the discovery of the core operating principle on which it is based: that what drives entrepreneurial success, regardless of size, industry or markets, is the skill of the entrepreneur and how well it is matched to the opportunities being pursued.