Mission

DROP KICK VENTURES BRINGS GREAT IDEAS TO LIFE.

How do agencies capitalize on promising ideas if they do not align with core objectives? What if a team has the talent, but not the means to commercialize its product concept? Drop Kick Ventures builds businesses around ideas, takes them to market and allows agencies to remain focused on organizational goals.

Our mission is to partner with select creative, marketing and communications agencies to bring ideas to life and take otherwise unrealized intellectual capital to market.

Key Players

WITHOUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE, AN IDEA IS WORTHLESS.

WITHOUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE, AN IDEA IS WORTHLESS.

  • Where there is one promising idea, there are probably more. We believe agencies’ entrepreneurial spirit should not be neglected. Fully developing an idea for market, however, requires support that talented agencies may lack. We built Drop Kick Ventures to allow key players to come together to generate, incubate, finance and market promising ideas.

  • Drop Kick Ventures partners with some of the world’s top creative, marketing and communication agencies. Our Agency Partners are at the cutting edge of innovation, generating ideas for our Capital Partners and Co-Founders to fund and develop.

  • Our Capital Partners include world-class private equity, venture capital and angel investment groups. They provide funding, business guidance and infrastructure to ensure all Drop Kick Ventures Companies have the necessary tools to be successful.

  • Drop Kick Ventures matches ideas from Agency Partners with entrepreneurs willing to take the start-up plunge. Co-Founders combine Capital Partners’ investments with Agency Partners’ innovation to create viable business opportunities out of great ideas.

  • THE
    CHALLENGE
  • THE
    SOLUTION
  • HOW IT
    WORKS

  • WE ARE FOUNDED ON THE DROP KICK PLATFORM.

    Not every agency has the time, funding or inclination to build businesses around ideas, no matter how innovative they are. These ideas often don’t align with core objectives, so they are shelved, spun off into separate divisions or developed into businesses that fail due to lack of support.

    How can agencies deliver promising ideas to the marketplace without compromising their organizational focus?

    THE DROP KICK PLATFORM PROVIDES THE SOLUTION.

  • THE DROP KICK PLATFORM OPERATES ON TWO PRINCIPLES:

    • The world has far more great ideas than great entrepreneurs with great ideas.
    • Ideas are useless without focused execution.

    The key difference in the Drop Kick Platform approach lies in targeting creative, marketing and communication agencies. These agencies interact with various industries and consumer audiences, and consistently generate ideas with significant market potential.

    THAT'S WHY WE BUILT OUR BUSINESS ON IT.

  • HERE'S HOW WE DO IT.

    Drop Kick Ventures works with select Agency Partners to bring their best ideas to life. We build a team to develop their idea, which becomes its own LLC. Profits are initially shared 49% (profits interests only) by the Agency Partner and 51% by Drop Kick Ventures. The Drop Kick Platform leaves Agency Partners free to focus on their core objectives while creating an additional revenue stream for their company.

    THE DROP KICK PLATFORM MAKES IT HAPPEN.
Leadership

DROP KICK VENTURES LEVERAGES THE VISIONS, PASSIONS AND PAST PURSUITS OF ITS LEADERS.

Drop Kick Ventures is designed to yield a collective entrepreneurial impact in the marketplace. Founded by Mark Hasebroock, a successful start-up veteran; Pat Lazure, a serial entrepreneur; and Joe Olsen, a recognized creative and marketing communications expert and seasoned entrepreneur, Drop Kick Ventures combines the best elements of its founders’ passions, past pursuits and visions for the future.

  • MARK HASEBROOCK

    Mark Hasebroock, Co-Founder of Drop Kick Ventures, is Founder of Dundee Venture Capital, which invests in startup web service and e-commerce businesses. He is also a Co-Founder of Hayneedle.com and GiftCertificates.com. Hasebroock previously served as Managing Director at McCarthy Capital, a regional investment bank.

  • PAT LAZURE

    Drop Kick Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Partner Pat Lazure is a serial entrepreneur bringing leadership experience in a variety of sectors, including digital media, e-commerce, finance and advertising. Lazure holds a finance degree and an MBA from Creighton University.

  • JOE OLSEN

    Drop Kick Ventures Co-Founder Joe Olsen is President and CEO of Phenomblue, a brand experience agency with offices in Omaha and Los Angeles. Phenomblue’s work has been featured in USA Today, Ad Age and Fast Company and received recognition from the Webby Awards, the CLIO Awards, SXSW Interactive Awards and the Favourite Website Awards. Olsen currently serves on the board of the Society of Digital Agencies.