Start-Ups
We understand start-ups. Together, we develop and grow ideas, teams, and companies. Without consulting attitude, focussed on your success, and with your limited resources in mind. ⬢
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Start-Up Services
Advisory: Co-Founder As-A-Service
Expertise comes with experience and experience takes time.
But time is precious in the early stages of a company. We support start-ups with technical and entrepreneurial expertise to make the right decisions and put them in touch with valuable contacts. We will ask the right questions – even painful if they are painful. This saves expensive and time-consuming detours.
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Value Proposition Development
Creating a product that customers actually want is no “piece of cake”.
The same applies for making sure your value proposition is also scalable. We help our clients to understand value creation, leverage the skills of their teams and analyse scalability ahead of time. That way, our clients deliver on the promises made to their customers while staying profitable during growth. Plus they don’t waste time on ideas that most likely won’t work.
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Company Development
Scaling a small team with a great idea is harder than it might seem at first glance.
Suddenly, certain structures and standards are needed to keep track of what’s going on – but at the same time you want to stay flexible and maintain your start-up spirit. We’ve been there various times and have supported our clients to get to the next step of their company’s development.
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Equity Story Advisory
When it comes to convincing financially strong investors, a well-done pitch is quickly not sufficient anymore.
Therefore, we support start-ups in creating a convincing equity story. This process starts by evaluation and further refining the business case and results in the pitch deck. Thereby, we help to create a substantiated growth story. In addition, we prepare the appropriate investor communication and thus ensure the success of the next financing round.
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Market Insights
We enable our clients to focus on their core product development by delivering the data they need to make informed decisions.
We take the time they often don’t have to evaluate the market, go through business cases, and perform competitive analyses.
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Some of Our
Projects
Co-Founder As A Service
We took over in coaching a pre-seed start-up and accompanied the founding team through various development stages. While initially, the strategic market positioning and business model evaluation were in the foreground, we mainly supported the development of a customer acquisition and marketing strategy later on. In addition, we helped the founders with pitch trainings as well as the development of an equity story and provided key contacts for upcoming financing rounds.
What have we learned? The early phase of a start-up is characterized by continuous change and advancements. During this time, a clear strategic course helps not to lose sight of one’s own goals.
Value Proposition Development
One of the biggest challenges for start-ups is to frame the own business model in a compelling way to investors, e.g. by finding an attractive niche. For a globally active telco start-up, we did exactly that: We structurally assessed their competitive environment, assets and capabilities, dependencies, and, moreover, the pain points of their peers: The result is a value proposition that promises to relieve lots of pain in the telco industry.
What have we learned? Sure, you need to profoundly understand the industry you are tackling – but more important is the famous “one step back” to see which market position makes sense in the big picture.
Start-Up Mentorship
Start-up accelerators are a great way for young companies to receive funding and guidance on how to advance their business. That is why we have partnered with an international accelerator program and took over mentorship for different start-ups. As part of the program, we supported the founders by evaluating their business models based on our entrepreneurial experience and industry-knowledge.
What have we learned? While many start-ups face similar challenges, mentoring a team of founders is always a unique experience – and very rewarding for both: mentees and mentors.
Nicolas Bell
Partner
