Startup services
Business plans
"In planning for battle, I have always found plans are useless, but planning is indespensable."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Creating a business plan consists of three steps:
1. Conducting a feasibility assessment.
Often overlooked, a feasibility assessment addresses how viable your idea is as a business, or whether there are alternative ways of turning your idea into a successful reality.
We will assess the market, pricing, competitive environment, trends in the industry, potential partners and initial positioning approaches that can be employed to advance you to the next level of corporate development.
2. Development and refinement of the business plan.
We create crackerjack business plans. Simple as that. We know the current investor hot buttons to push and how to appeal to investors with business plans that are not only sound blueprints of action but are also vehicles to convey the excitement and potential of your company.
3. Creation and refinement of the executive summary.
Unfortunately, the executive summary is often treated as an unimportant afterthought to the business plan development process. It is not. The executive summary requires extremely care in determining what to include and to exclude as well as how to communicate your business plan's key points.
We will work closely with you to make sure your executive summary captures investor attention and interest while mitigating the concerns of risk.
Are you looking for help finding and connecting to investors?
Be careful: Many of the so-called "introducers" or brokers are little more than snake-oil peddlers.
One person we admire in capital advising, though, is Janis Machala at Paladin Partners.
Nimble Strategies has a relationship with a national angel and VC investor group focused on technology companies. To learn more, go to http://www.astva.com and be sure to note Nimble Strategies as your referral, with referral code #2349.
And while we do not offer introductory services, having met with many of the leading VCs in Seattle, Sand Hill Road and Southern California, we can help identify which firms are most appropriate to pursue and how to position yourself to be attractive to those specific firms.