THE STARTUP

So you’ve developed the next new widget you think will revolutionize the industry. But wait, how much is it going to cost? Who’s going to build it? Who gets to sell it and at what price? Is there a preexisting market or are you creating an entirely new market space? And what happens when your company needs to move “out of the garage” — where do you go? These are all critical issues that many young entrepreneurs face. Once you’re on the road to success, without proper growth and expansion planning, a Startup may find itself up the creek without a paddle sooner than it thinks.

At SBS, we guide your Startup through the building process, taking a “Ma to Mc”™ approach. On a macro level, we first research the industry, analyzing historical trends, assessing key data points and developing metrics that allow us to create a comprehensive business plan and your PLC roadmap. On a micro level, we focus on all the details you don’t have time for so that you can focus on the strategic issues to build a new, exciting and profitable venture. At SBS we help map your unique vision into an easy to follow stakeholder roadmap.

We recognize that your technical skills have brought you this far, but now it’s time to fine-tune your business model. You’ll need experienced HR, manufacturing, sales, operations, marketing, finance e-commerce and social networking expertise, and that’s where SBS comes in. Utilizing the SBS Continuum™ new business building process, we create an organic, flexible “Corporate Ecosystem” that allows you to focus on what you do best — creating the next new revolutionary product or service. Our SBS Affiliates are a valued expert resource for supplying the necessary manpower, services and strategic partners for each of these core business disciplines. These services include:

• Business/Mission Plan Development

• HR- Organizational Staffing/Office Site Planning

• Sales/Pricing/Distribution Planning

• Marketing/Branding/PR/Communications

• E-commerce Web Strategy & Development

• Social Network Marketing Roadmap

• Financial Planning & Budget Development

• Funding/Equity Sourcing/Strategic Partnering/Joint Venturing

• Manufacturing (Offshore, Onshore, Nearshore) Sourcing

 

Each element is comprised of qualified industry partners who are specialists in their field. Outsourcing these critical business functions in the early growth stage allows you, the founder and your core team, to stay focused on creating your new product or service on time and on budget.

As your startup expands and becomes a true SMB, SBS builds the long term roadmap so that each core business discipline migrates from the original external strategic partner to internally staffed experts. The SBS Continuum™ assists you in quickly and cost effectively evolving and growing from a startup to SMB and ultimately to an enterprise. As a true business partner, we offer the expertise you need at each step in your business’s matriculation and growth. Our goal is not just to hold your hand but provide you with the tools you need to develop your organizational independence.

 

THE SMB

You’ve made it through the Startup phase and have your core business disciplines in place. With unforeseen challenges in both your internal and external corporate environment, it is truly time to sink or swim as a business. SBS in this stage focuses on areas including:

• Bridge Funding: You need significant capital to move up to the next level.

• Strategic Partner/Joint Venture/Merger & Acquisition Scenario Planning: You don’t have to navigate these tricky waters alone. SBS has the unique expertise you need to cost effectively move to the next level.

• Local/National/Global Strategic Planning: In what markets will you see the biggest growth vs. expansion costs?

SBS offers expert professional services, executive coaching and counseling through this difficult growth stage. Utilizing SBS’s HSWOT™ methodology, we help you self assess continually and reposition your products, services and roadmap in a constantly changing marketplace. HSWOT™ helps you in effectively engaging, assessing, addressing and implementing in those key business areas where attention is needed.

 

THE ENTERPRISE

You are an established business presence, a leader in your industry with thousands of employees and a global footprint with diversified markets. If you’re negotiating a market share expansion in an aging marketplace, there are a number of factors to consider. What new global markets have the biggest potential for long term growth? Which divisions are doing well, and — more importantly — what about your under performers? What unique things are you doing to recruit the best and brightest in your organization? With shareholders expecting equitable and consistent returns on their investments, are all your PPE assets being fully utilized? Does your existing cash flow meet your operational plans or expansion needs? What are you doing to optimize performance at all levels in the organization? Who’s the change agent in each division?

At SBS, we’re experts in digging deep; finding the critical areas that require amendments; developing new benchmarks, KPIs, and strategic action plans to assist you in keeping your venture optimized. We can offer:

• PESTLE Analysis, Review, Recommendations.
  • Political
  • Economic
  • Social
  • Technological
  • Environmental
  • Legal

• Physical and IP Resource/Asset Analysis.
  How does your organization review and appraise the financial value of your company's physical and intangible assets? SBS uses customized asset valuation analysis methodologies to assess your company's equity. For instance, what new proprietary company technology, products, processes or plans should be patented? How are your recent and obsolete assets valuated? At SBS, we make sure what's on the books reflects the true value of what you own.

• Business Expansion/Cost Effective Divisional Dissolution Services.
  How does your organization review and appraise the financial value of your company's physical and intangible assets? SBS uses customized asset valuation analysis methodologies to assess your company's equity. For instance, what new proprietary company technology, products, processes or plans should be patented? How are your recent and obsolete assets valuated? At SBS, we make sure what's on the books reflects the true value of what you own.

• Matrix & Interdepartmental Human Resource Maximizing.
  How does your organization review and appraise the financial value of your company's physical and intangible assets? SBS uses customized asset valuation analysis methodologies to assess your company's equity. For instance, what new proprietary company technology, products, processes or plans should be patented? How are your recent and obsolete assets valuated? At SBS, we make sure what's on the books reflects the true value of what you own.

• HSWOT™ Planning.
  • Human Strengths
  • Human Weaknesses
  • Human Opportunities
  • Human Threats

  
  
  HSWOT™ is a more in-depth analysis of the individual so as to develop a better understanding of themselves, their organization, the value they bring and the unique opportunities they sometimes miss due to lack of understanding as employees.

• Executive Coaching.
  Every manager and company executive has strengths and weaknesses. At SBS we help identify those weaknesses and turn them into the strengths required to drive your organization forward. Learning is a lifelong process. Our personalized one-on-one executive coaching allows your management to develop a PGP™ personal growth plan to realize their potential.

• Enhanced Training.

• Financial Auditing.