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About

Modven is Justin Jarvinen and 25+ years’ strategy and innovation experience.

Justin Jarvinen is the Principal who works closely with support and a stack of agents. The person who reads your records signs the OID and builds the mechanism. There is no bench and no handoff, and everything we ship is documented and runs without us.

Justin Jarvinen

years designing and operating

$M

in enterprise value directly contributed

/

startups founded and exited

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innovation, tech, and creative awards earned

Why it is built this way

Leaders can become the builders when the stack below them collapses.

For twenty-five years the value I brought was seeing the whole board: pulling signals from customers, markets, technology, and the business itself, connecting them into a thesis, and then organizing people and capital to make it real.

Between the idea and the finished thing there always sat a large layer of functional leaders, agencies, teams, translation, and time. Most of that layer is gone now. The judgment stayed and the machinery shrank.

So Modven is one founder, a trusted network of experts I have worked with for years, and a studio of agents. It is not a smaller version of the old firm. It is the same operating system with the middle taken out, which is why it moves the way it does. I think this is what corporate innovation becomes: not a lab or a workshop series, but one senior operator who can read the whole board, a fixed price, a written stop condition, and something running at the end.

How I work

Price

Fixed and stated before any money moves. I do not bill by the hour.

Stop condition

Written into every opportunity before anyone builds. If the evidence says stop, I stop, and you keep what exists.

Your data

The NDA comes first. You send a structured export, and nothing is installed or connected on your side. Your data is used for the engagement it was sent for and nothing else.

Ownership

What I build runs in your operation and belongs to you, with no license and no dependency on me.

Spin-outs

When an idea is bigger than the business that found it, I help structure the new company, bring the investors I know, and where it fits, invest beside you or take part of the fee in equity. It tends to focus the mind.

Recognition

01

Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40

02

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, runner-up

03

Red Herring Entrepreneur of the Year

04

More than sixty innovation, technology, and creative awards

Lake Bluff, Illinois. Working everywhere.
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