Mission
Hatch Ventures LLC is an incubator for new consumer products and services. We employ a strategic partnership model in order to simultaneously advance a diverse and ambitious array of quality business development projects from concept to market.
Small business development is not just our job, it’s our passion and responsibility. We pay meticulous attention to detail in order to ensure premium products and services, and the highest level of customer satisfaction and care. Moreover, when profit margins reasonably permit, we partner with qualified domestic businesses to advance our products and services.
Approach
Once we conceive an idea for a new business product or service, we conduct rigorous research to determine its preliminary viability. Preliminary viability is based on projected start-up costs, workload, consumer value, differential advantage over comparable products and services, marketability, profitability and creativity. Although we do not self-impose restrictions on the types of products and services we develop, we prefer the challenge of identifying gaps in the marketplace, not yet addressed, and filling them with innovative and meaningful business solutions.
When a new idea for a business product or service passes our preliminary vetting process, we create financial and/or future profit-sharing linkage agreements with other businesses we believe to possess the interest, expertise, resources, motivation, integrity and time to support moving the idea from advance concept to the marketplace. Business partners include, but are certainly not limited to, administrative assistants, angel investors, artists, bookkeepers, business accountants, business attorneys, commercial real estate agents and attorneys, computer programmers, database developers, domestic and foreign manufacturers, engineers, fashion designers, graphic designers, website designers, intellectual property attorneys, international business intermediaries, interns, marketing consultants, photographers, researchers, website designers, and writers.
About Founder and Principal
Andrew D. Lewis is the founder and principal of Hatch Ventures LLC and the inventor of the Moto-Grip™ and Moto-Grip Jr.™. Andrew was born and raised in Somers, New York. In 1989, he graduated magna cum laude from Colorado College, where he majored in cultural anthropology and minored in urban studies. He earned a master’s degree in public policy and administration from Columbia University in 1995, concentrating in advanced management and policy analysis.
From 1989 to 2023, he has held numerous progressively responsible direct service, administrative and managerial positions in the New York City and New York State government, including the Departments of Probation, Correction, Criminal Justice Coordination, Health and Mental Hygiene, Police, and the Civil Court of the City of New York. During this period, Andrew performed strategic planning and program needs assessments; developed, implemented and evaluated health, education, social service, community outreach and conflict resolution programs; designed and executed critical incident response protocols; coordinated with city, state and federal government and non-profit agencies; instituted performance management accountability systems; managed and trained personnel; and conducted extensive individual and group behavior modification counseling.
Since 1999, Andrew has become a certified community mediator with the Columbia University School of Law and the Manhattan Mediation Center and a certified professional coach with the Coaches Training Institute. Further, he has completed intensive certificate training in small business development with the State University of New York’s Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations. During this period, Andrew has gained significant coaching and conflict resolution experience with individuals in employment transition, aspiring and established entrepreneurs, business partners, and non-profit and corporate teams. In addition to his role as Founder and Principal of Hatch Ventures LLC, Andrew currently maintains a private coaching and conflict resolution practice, Andrew D. Lewis Coaching and Mediation LLC (visit www.coachingandmediation.com). When he is not busy incubating new business products and services, coaching and mediating, Andrew enjoys motorcycling, jewelry design, silversmithing and cooking for friends and family.
