From start-up to scale-up.
Turning a good idea into a business that scales calls for different choices at every stage. We support founders and growing teams: from the first business plan and the route to market to the structure, the numbers and the leadership to grow without breaking.
The service at a glance.
1What you get
- A plan that convinces banks and investors
- A clear route to market
- An organisation that grows with revenue
- Numbers to steer by every week
2Who it is for
Managing directors, board members and executive teams of SMEs, family businesses and scale-ups facing an important choice.
Questions you may recognise
Is our business plan ready for an investor?
How do we grow without quality and margin slipping?
When should the founder let go of day-to-day management?
3How it works
- Free Direction ScanIn a few minutes you see where your company stands and where your biggest lever is.Free
- In-depth intake via TeamsThe Direction Call: two hours via Teams, € 600 excl. VAT, paid in advance.2 hours
- Three reportsProblem analysis, Solution and advice, Implementation method.Within 2 working days
- Delivery and follow-upWe help carry it through and monitor the agreements until the result is there.By arrangement
4Result
Clear choices, a plan your organisation understands and a fixed rhythm to monitor delivery.
5What it costs
Fixed price per phase
After the three reports you receive, for each phase, a proposal with goals, timing and a fixed price. Every step is invoiced in advance. You start with a two-hour Direction Call, € 600 excl. VAT.
6Next step
Start with the free Direction Scan: it takes 7 minutes. Then follows a two-hour Direction Call via Teams, with three reports.
Your challenge, our expertise.
Six questions that directors and business owners most often bring to us in this field. In practice they overlap, and often touch the other pillars too.
Business plan and financial plan
A plan that convinces banks and investors, with a financial plan the founders themselves understand and use.
Go-to-market
Target audience, proposition, pricing and channels sharply defined, so the first customers arrive sooner and come back.
Funding and investors
Own funds, bank, grant or investor: the options weighed up, and a pitch and figures ready for the questions.
From founder to organisation
Roles, a first layer of managers and a regular meeting rhythm, so that not every decision still rests with the founder.
Processes and numbers that scale
Simple processes, a dashboard and reporting that keep working when customers and headcount double.
Board and advisory board
An advisory board or a first independent director, and partner agreements that hold firm as the business grows.
What you want to know.
What does a start-up consultant do?
A start-up consultant helps founders make the choices that define a young business: which market first, which revenue model, how much money is needed and from whom. They then help turn those choices into a plan, a first organisation and numbers to steer by.
What is the difference between a start-up and a scale-up?
A start-up is still searching for a model that works. A scale-up has found that model and now has to roll it out quickly and in a controlled way. That second stage demands different things: structure, processes, reporting and leadership that scale.
Do you also help with a funding round?
We help you prepare it: the business plan, the financial plan, the pitch and the answers to the questions a bank or investor will ask. Which source of funding fits best is something we weigh up together.
Discuss your question in confidence.
First the free Direction Scan, then a two-hour Direction Call via Teams, € 600 excl. VAT, paid in advance. You receive three reports. Strictly confidential.