Start-ups can be engines for growth, transformation, and even revolution. We can help get you started.

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Services for Start-ups

  • Concept Shaping and Refinement

    Have a unique idea or skill set around which you think you can build a business? Not sure if it will fly? The Skedastic team can help craft an initial reality check consisting of an analysis of available, open-source market data, potential demand estimation (i.e. market sizing), custom market research and qualitative data gathering, and an analysis of the critical resources needed to make it happen, among other elements. This process inevitably leads to concept shaping and/or refinement based on the learnings. Packages range from $1,200 - $5,000, excluding potential external costs related to projects involving customer research surveys, focus groups, customer-led design sessions, etc.

  • Ready to Raise

    Most investors, institutions and individuals, will expect to see a well thought out plan and financial model. These artifacts help investors understand the capabilities of the team and how well thought out the project is. They will also help investors understand the scalability of the project, among other critical insights. The Skedastic team can help you to develop high quality plans, presentations, and models to not only better understand your own project, but to also empower you with the confidence to convince investors of your ability to execute with success. To this end, we can offer fixed price packages to assist in the preparation of these materials - Business Plan, Pitch Deck, Financial Model - depending on whether you need all or just one/some of the elements, and the degree to which you are prepared to develop them. Ranging from $1,500 - $10,000.

  • Co-Founding and Fractional Leadership Participation

    In some instances, it may be helpful or even necessary to augment your founding leadership team with critical, experienced skill sets to satisfy the requirements of your investors. Skedastic may be able to fulfill such a requirement on a fractional basis, e.g. fractional CEO, COO, Data Officer, etc. Contact us to explore the possibilities.

  • Interim Leadership

    Start-ups can be rapidly evolving environments in which new learnings happen frequently and can often lead to unforeseen pivots. Sometimes these pivots affect the team, and sometimes that means shuffling or augmenting roles. Our team is equipped to step in on an interim basis to fill an unexpected gap that arises under such circumstances, or can simply advise through such transitions on the fly. Such arrangements are very context-dependent so please reach out to us to discuss how we can help more specifically.

  • Governance & Board Participation

    Having a data-minded member of your governance team can be a very useful asset. We have been involved with all aspects of governance in various contexts, with strong contributions to strategic leadership and interaction with the investor community. And we can always be relied upon to be the sober, data-rooted, objective perspective in the room.

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New Venture, Experienced Guidance.

Start-ups are special simply by virtue of being a “start-up”, regardless of the industry or product, at least initially.  All start-ups go through the same phases, face similar challenges, and are expected to produce the same types of deliverables through the early stages, and almost all will be seeking external funding to get going.  And if and when you arrive at the growth-stage, that requires yet more specific experience and skill - because managing growth successfully is an animal unto itself.

As such, they benefit greatly from special expertise and prior start-up experience to drive evolution of an idea to prototype, from prototype to proof of concept, to funded project, to growing business.  There are many steps on this uncertainty-riddled path, but regardless of stage, we can support your project through the entire lifecycle because we’ve literally been there, done that.

We also understand that not all start-up projects are endowed with the bounty of resources that might be necessary for success on day-one, so we have developed a variety of packages to try to work within your project’s constraints.  

Our start-up experience spans traditional & advanced manufacturing, manufacturing for medical, digital/e- Health, digital media/digital publishing, social start-ups/NGOs, and professional services.  We are comfortable planning, modeling, and managing B2B, B2C, and all the permutations thereof.  And it’s worth noting that we bring especially deep strategic and technical understanding of membership/subscription-based business models, especially with regard to modeling and analysis.

We can be that critical resource, just when you need it most.