ENTREPRENEURS: Start

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Many people have a good idea but haven't thought about how to monetise the opportunity. Whilst new revenue streams may evolve as your business grows, identifying the way you'll make money is essential. 

A sound financial model is imperative. Ensure you understand the financial potential for your business, costs associated, budgets and margins. Not only is this important for you in running your business, but if you wish to raise investment as well. 

Incorporating your company is important, but not just so you can start trading. Protect yourself, your business, your shareholders and customers with the right set up.  Selecting the right jurisdiction, putting in place appropriate share classes, Articles of Association, Shareholders Agreements and much more play an import role to the short and long term success of your business.

Getting any business off the ground will cost money and there are different strategies one can employ here. If you're not bootstrapping and need angel or seed investment, preparing the right materials including a private placement memorandum are essential to a successful raise. 

Whether you're fundraising, hiring or building partnerships, leverage our network to ensure your process is efficient and successful.

Knowing where to start when building a new tech platform can be daunting. Plan and execute to a detailed roadmap, whilst also ensuring you work with the right partners to deliver a scalable product and seamless experience to your customers. 

Who is your target audience? The tone, positioning, narrative and much more goes into ensuring your offering resonates with your future customers and whilst product and marketing are key, so is brand!

Whether you wish to target global brands, ramp up user acquisition or increase monetisation, leverage our experience and network to make this a reality.  

If customers can’t find it, it doesn’t exist. 

Defining a marketing strategy that is both clear yet flexible will help you reach the success you've forecast in that detailed financial model of yours! Plan, prepare, execute. 

On-boarding the right personnel can make or break your business.  

You're either hiring or have hired awesome talent and you don't want them going elsewhere when the going gets tough (and it will get tough!). Lock them in with share option schemes, ensuring they share ownership in the company, but do it right. Bad apples do make their way into the batch and you need to be sure you're ready for this.  

Communicate with your current and potential customers, partners, shareholders, investors, employees. Consistent messaging in line with your brand positioning, tone and under varying circumstances can't be underestimated.  

Your business is up and running and you want to take it to the next level! 

More budget for customer acquisition, hiring additional staff, expanding office space and increasing all the operating expenses that come with a scaling business - from phone bills to legals - is a crucial process. 

Raising this kind of money is no easy feat; make it worthwhile and get the best guidance to make it happen...and on the terms you want!

With our finger on the pulse, and with so many great ideas coming our way, allow us to separate the good from the bad. We'll bring you the projects that fit your mandate and that we believe will deliver a significant return on your investment. 

In a fast moving digital world, it can be challenging knowing exactly what the focus should be for each investor. Based on your specifics, let us advise you on a mandate and process that is best suited to ensure you're not missing the best opportunities. 

We're at the forefront of innovation and can keep you regularly informed on what's hot, what's not and what's next. 

We've experienced first hand what can trigger success and what can result in failure. We can conduct due diligence for tech opportunities that come your way, reviewing market opportunity, the technology and team and challenge their assumptions with our first hand experience. 

An outsider looking in always helps, particularly with relevant experience. 

If you feel your portfolio companies could do with input, guidance, advice or just some good old fashioned motivation, we're experienced and passionate enough to deliver meaningful results. 

Unfortunately, sometimes, it doesn't go to plan. It may be out of the blue or a gradual decline in company performance. Get sound advice on how best to recover and or manage the situation. 

Sometimes the men and women in suits have to get involved and it can be daunting for all involved. An experienced and outside perspective can help ensure you're making the best decision for you, your shareholder and the business as a whole. 

For numerous reasons the relationship among shareholders can go downhill, resulting in the need of a  restructuring. This is a fragile and stressful time, and it's important to have the best advice so that you are maximising on any eventuality. 

Clear, regular communication with your shareholders and board during challenging times is imperative, not just ethically but legally. Be sure to get this right, and get the narrative with customers and suppliers right too.

This can be a lengthy and stressful process, which can differ greatly depending on the jurisdiction in which your business and it's subsidiaries are incorporated. Before going big with the lawyers, get advice based on first hand experience on best practice and what this process entails. 

If it's all coming to a close ensure your approach is best practice keeping in mind all stakeholders, including creditors, customers, shareholders and employees. 

Explore what value can be extracted from what's left to deliver the maximum return to stakeholders.