Support4growth
The founding team of a technology business will face significant challenges as they move from stage to stage of their businesses evolution, and often find their time and resources under great stress from competing priorities. In fact it is an unfortunate reality that at some point between seed funding and an exit most technology businesses will fail due to these pressures.
 In the early days the major challenge may be one of completing commercial grade product with too few developers, then it may be the gaining of investment by an overstretched management team whilst at the same time, the same people are needed to close sales with early customers. Later on the business will most likely need to build an effective channel for its products and execute some form of international expansion strategy all of which stretch the business, open up significant new areas of risk and often require some form of financial investment.
At Venture4th we have brought together a set of world-class services, skills and products to ensure our clients are supported in the right way, at every step of their ventures evolution from start-up to exit. By doing this, we take a great deal of the risk out of rapid growth for our clients and enable them to much more readily cope with the challenges of constantly shifting priorities and resources.
We do not force a "one size fits all" attitude onto our clients but work with them to tailor the value we bring to their business at all times. Some of the key areas where our clients can gain support for growth are;
- Virtual exec roles – eg; COO, CFO, CMO, CSO...
- Coaching and support for the founding team
- Securing of early reference sales
- Investor relations
- Cost effective Key Hiring
- Brand, Product and Customer marketing
- Identifying and signing channel partnerships
- Product management and positioning
- R&D outsourcing
- Press relations
- Analyst relations
By understanding the stages a technology business will need to progress through and offering the right set of resources to match these, the Support4growth programme enables founding teams and entrepreneurs to concentrate on the highest priority activities at all stages of growth and increase the ventures chance of evolving into a robust, valuable business. |
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We support our clients management teams with a hands-on approach and access to skills, know-how and resources that would otherwise take considerable time and funding to build or acquire.
By enabling our clients to pick the right set of supporting resources for their needs at all times, the Support4growth programme enables founding teams to concentrate growing their venture into a robust, valuable business. |
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