OUR SERVICES
Essential Services for Startups & Small Businesses
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Business Sense Check
A Business Sense Check helps founders develop a credible action plan to focus their business to achieve what the founder wants.
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Startup Services
Starting a business sounds easy but it’s not. We can help you start out right, with a clear plan and suitable business processes that focus your efforts.
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Cash Forecasting
Cash forecasting is an essential part of every business. Every business needs one and we can help you create one tailored to you.
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Growth Alliance
Our Growth Alliance is a short term program completed in three stages, designed to revitalise startups and small businesses.
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Due Diligence
A specialist program providing hands-on support and guidance to help business founders and investors prepare for and execute due diligence reviews.
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Turnaround projects
Our turnaround project services support investors, administrators and receivers when a small businesses is underperforming.
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DISP
We can help navigate the requirements for membership of the Defence Industry Security Program.
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ISO
There are many industries who prioritise suppliers with an ISO accreditation. We can help you get yours.
BUSINESS SENSE CHECK
A Business Sense Check helps founders develop a credible action plan to focus their business to achieve what the founder wants.
It starts with clearly defining the Founder’s goal, then walking through key elements of the business and reviewing strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.
At the end of the Business Sense Check Founders will better understand:
Their goals
Growth paths and barriers
Options to shape the business to achieve growth and the required results
Keys to success and threats to that success
This is documented in an Action Plan (presented in Excel for ease of use) and a draft short form Strategic Plan, which includes:
The Founder Goal
Summary of the business products and services (including unique selling points)
Risks and opportunities, together with a SWOT analysis
Initial Key Performance Indicators
A Business Sense Check requires about 4-5 hours of your time, spread over a couple of meetings and costs $4,350.
We recognise and value your skills and expertise and treat you with respect - it’s your business!
We bring the expertise to complement yours, ensuring the business has a solid foundation to achieve the goal you’re looking for.
Let our expertise be the catalyst for your growth.
CASHFLOW FORECASTING
In any small business, managing the cashflows are critical. Most Founders are also Directors of their startup company(ies) and as such are subject to a number of requirements under both the taxation and Corporations legislation.
Having a cashflow is a basic way to prevent the company from getting into cashflow trouble in the first place. They don’t need to be complicated and super accurate.
Creating and updating a cashflow forecast also helps Founders to understand their cash inflows and outflows and to make judgements as to how certain the incoming cash is.
Experia Growth can assist by:
Developing an easy to understand Forecast template.
Helping to develop and refine the assumptions for both revenue and expenses.
Ensuring that meaningful information to update the forecast is collected and actual performance is tracked.
Managing cashflows are often the last thing on a Founders mind given all the other tasks they have to do.
They are, however, one of the most important tools a Founder should have.
Don’t delay or procrastinate any longer if you don’t have one.
Prepare one now.
STARTUP SERVICES
Starting a new business is very exciting! It’s also challenging and many of the decisions you make can have far reaching consequences down the track. Decisions range from deciding how you will hold the shares in your company, the split of shares with investors (if you have them), what agreements are needed or made and (most importantly!) the plans for getting the business to grow and how to find the customers in your target markets. Funding is also very important, especially if you have significant R&D to undertake.
It’s unlikely that you’ll have the full breadth of expertise needed across all the decisions you’ll make. Realistically, it’s unlikely that any one person could. It makes sense then, to reach out to others to help set up and focus your business properly from the start.
Experia Growth has whole of business expertise and can help with:
Documenting your goals and constructing a business plan.
Introducing you to advisors to help with the structuring.
Setting up the company and getting associated ATO registrations.
Choosing and implementing the right systems for action tracking, CRM and bookkeeping.
Don’t shortcut the steps in setting up your business!
Once you get started you may quickly run out of time to work on your business rather than in it - setting it up properly in the first place will save a lot of stress in the future.
GROWTH ALLIANCE
Our Growth Alliance is a short term program completed in three stages, designed to revitalise startups and small businesses for renewed or accelerated growth and investor returns. They deliver value to business founders and investors, providing support to businesses at all stages of maturity.
Pre-assessment
An initial review allows all parties to understand the opportunity and to define and agree on a short-term goal. This process typically takes 4 weeks and involves creating a high level overview of the required actions and resources.
Preparation
When alignment exists and a goal is agreed, work begins preparing for program execution. During this stage the required expertise is assembled; a formal achievement plan is developed; and a more detailed assessment of risk and other requirements is performed.
Execution
Work commences, with the Experia Growth team supplementing the business team to enable them to work on the agreed plan. Progress is monitored closely during execution, with monthly reporting for the duration of the Growth Alliance.
We bring the expertise, discipline, strategic focus and whole of business support to remove barriers; bridge skill and capacity gaps; and deliver on short term goals.
DUE DILIGENCE
A specialist project providing hands-on support and guidance to help business founders and investors prepare for and execute due diligence reviews.
Due Diligence reviews are a necessity for raising funds or as a part of selling a business. It’s essential that Founders/Sellers present a credible and reliable image during due diligence exercises.
Our team has been involved in extensive due diligence exercises and are well aware of the typical requirements.
We can assist by:
Preparing/reviewing information and highlighting potential issues.
Setting up your data room.
Managing your due diligence process.
Liaising with external advisors as needed.
Due Diligence makes or breaks your deal.
Make sure that you understand the issues and are able to inspire confidence with a well run and professional process!
We’ve been through some truly painful processes, so let us help you avoid the common pitfalls.
DISP
For companies planning on contracting to Defence directly, membership of the Defence Industry Security Program is becoming more and more necessary.
One of the key requirements is DISP membership, which can be an onerous task even if your current systems and processes are suitable!
We’re familiar with DISP requirements and have the resources available to ensure that your business doesn’t suffer due to lack of attention while you navigate the process.
Defence is a tough market to crack with many time consuming hurdles to clear.
We’re familiar with the requirements and can provide the resources to complete the process
TURN AROUND PROJECTS
Our turnaround project services support investors, administrators and receivers when a small businesses is underperforming.
We provide the right discipline, strategy and capacity to:
Keep your business operational
Lift performance to retain value
Improve efficiency
Build stability
Restore credibility and investor confidence
Successful turnaround projects often rely on changes to processes and strategies to implement new and improved business plans.
We have the whole of business expertise needed and the desire to help the business succeed.
ISO
Having ISO accreditations is likely to be one of the challenges your business needs to address, as they are becoming a minimum baseline requirement for many industries.
Accreditation processes are excellent for helping to implement processes that many businesses need, but do require a significant time commitment to implement.
A Business Sense Check provides a good foundation for addressing many of the ISO 9001 non-operating requirements.
We can also provide the necessary people to help your business continue to operate while you’re doing the implementation, because a drawn out accreditation process is very wasteful.
ISO accreditations are necessary, but time consuming.
We can help manage the process and provide the resources necessary to keep your business working.