Methodologies

Fundraising & Preparation for it

Be attractive for more than just your product or service

Having an investible idea and an investible opportunity are two very different things. We can help prepare you and the company for fundraising. We will make your opportunity “investible”. This includes diligence and pitch deck preparation. It takes more than great technical products and services to be attractive to clients and investors. We are going to manage the four risk categories with you to make your opportunity attractive: team, financial, market, and product/service. Investors don’t expect all of these risks to be zero but they do expect well thought-out executable strategies.

Fractional executives, SME’s, and staff

Affordable expertise and additional credibility

Small companies can rarely afford a top-heavy, expensive group of seasoned professionals who know how to build businesses from the early stage. It may be difficult to attract them even if you could afford them. We provide that expertise with fractional executives, and the credibility that comes with them, and a better return-on-investment (ROI), so you can use your investment money and revenue for growth instead.

Visionary-Integrator

Build your dream.
All of it.

You started your company out of passion, vision, and the potential to provide demonstrable value to your clients. You’re solving for a Societal need. You’ve probably already built the entire company in your head 10 years ahead of where you are today, but you want it to exist that way in reality right now. We help translate your vision into reality. We take a lot of work away so you can keep honing your vision. We are integrators, and integrators build a vision from concept to reality.

Operational maturation

Integrate your company

You know your product or service. We build and maintain everything around it necessary to be and remain attractive to your clients, employees, and investors. We know “operations” isn’t usually the exciting part of a business, but it is what gives the business the ability to deliver and grow. We are adept at creating scalable/repeatable/transferable human resources, legal, financial, quality management, regulatory compliance, supply chain, client success, manufacturing, service provision, and sales and marketing to name a few. We know how to create these functional areas and mature them.

LEAN start-up

Get to revenue and profit faster

We create fast cycles of learning and build a decision-making culture based on real-time data to maximize business impact. We bring the thought process used by engineers to the benefit of general business. We also bring all of the best-practices for technological scalability found in LEAN, Six Sigma, 5S, and ISO quality management systems, to name a few but we phase them in and right-size these efforts to avoid overwhelming the company and its culture.

Increase accountability

Align your organization to common goals and improve communications

We connect vision, strategy, and execution using a proven method. It’s lightweight and easy to get started, yet very powerful. We will help you define and achieve your goals, stay focused, and create great culture. You will not be distracted by “shiny objects” anymore.

Investor relationships

Speak the same language

Maximize the value of your investors. They often bring much more than money. We translate, align company and investor goals, and maintain great internal communications to help develop and leverage the value of your investors.

Cultural development

People do business with people they like and trust

We believe in mission statements and core values that are alive and detectable throughout your company. People have choices for whom they work. Customers have choices with whom they do business, and tend to chose partners who align with them on multiple levels. We’ll help you build a credible, trustworthy, attractive culture that resonates with employees, clients, community, and investors. We call this Employee Success and Client Success.

Data-driven business impact

Data-driven approaches for real business impact

We can help you take advantage of data, analytics, and the insights they bring to business decision-making. We can help you mine your own data, make it trustworthy, and create data streams that may be missing. From there, we will use the data to create insights to help make well-informed decisions in many areas such as; financial, operations, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and supply chain to name a few.

Business plan development

The business has to work on paper first

Even if your business is already underway, it is always good to develop a plan using an organized approach. If you are just getting started, we will use a similar approach to help develop your full go-to-market plan. There are many exercises needed to develop an executable strategy. While it’s nice to have a plan, we will make sure it gets executed by moving the plan into a robust accountability system of key metrics, goals, and an issue resolution process.

Our approach to building successful companies and rebuilding ones that are stuck

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