OFFERINGS
DESIGN YOUR STARTUP
"We engaged CFO Axis for advice on building our financial model, business forecast, and investor pitch. Shailendra's advice provided us valuable insights into our business, which helped us revise our pricing as well as the marketing strategy. We are happy to recommend him as a growth consultant and strategy advisor for any startup looking to scale profitably."
Sandip Sanap, Founder and Director, IntellirichDevsoft Pvt Ltd
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A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about
1. What its product is.
2. Who its customers are.
3. How to make money.
– Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder
So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.
– Caterina Fake, Flickr co-founder
Ideas are commodities. The execution of them is not.
– Michael Dell, Dell chairman, and CEO
Get a mentor in the applicable field if you’re at all unsure of what you’re looking for.
– Kyle Bragger, Forrst founder
Solution
Research shows that over 90% of startups fail within the first 3 years. Of these, over 70% fail due to challenges around product, market, and finances. That is a whopping ~65% of the total startups!
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The product-related challenges involve understanding customer needs, idea validation design, and market fit. The market-related challenges involve estimating the market size, developing a go-to-market strategy, bagging early wins for revenue acceleration, and generating great customer feedback. The finance-related challenges involve pricing the product, estimating the fixed, variable, and semi-variable costs, unit economics, business, and cash flow forecasting, and securing funds.
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We help startups resolve these challenges in multiple ways.
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Design a scalable business model upfront
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Validate the idea and the product-market fit
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Price the products for accelerated go-to-market and revenue
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Forecast financials for idea and growth stage
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Build a robust financial model
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Estimating business valuation
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Preparing investor pitch and coaching the founders
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The founders benefit tremendously from our experience.
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Discard ideas that are not worth pursuing
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Invest time, efforts, and money on viable business ideas
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Run a scalable business that generates positive cash flows
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Secure equity funding at an appropriate stage, with minimum dilution
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If you are an early-stage startup founder or even thinking of launching a startup, do get in touch with us to know how we can help you.
A ‘startup’ is a company that is confused about
1. What its product is.
2. Who its customers are.
3. How to make money.
– Dave McClure, 500Startups co-founder
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
-Guy Kawasaki, AllTop Co-founder