Services
Product and technology leadership — when you need it most.
For small to mid-market companies
Assess
– Identify opportunities
– Identify assets and resources
– Inventory skills and capabilities
– Do we have what it takes (team, finances, time) to meet the market need?
Build
– Market fit analysis
– Market need study
– Identify emerging technologies that create opportunities
– Translating business and consumer needs into roadmaps and specifications
– Sourcing, leading, and managing a software development team (either in-house or external)
Deliver
– Make sure your product or service works
– Leverage consumer feedback to evolve your product
– Implement behind-the-scenes infrastructure that transforms a functional product into a successful business
Optimize
– Use usage metrics to guide UX refinement and product evolution
– Design, collect, and react appropriately to product telemetry
– Leverage relationships with your clients to expose hidden opportunities and opportunities for new product growth
– Provide an outside-looking-in view that you can’t see when you’re in it
For Small Private Equity firms
(typically < $1bn AUM)
Assess
- Pre-deal due diligence
- Validate investment thesis
- Identify gaps in team skills and bandwidth
- Explore intra-portfolio opportunities
Plan
- Define new product/service offering
- Specify MVP
- Identify financial, skills, vendor, and partner resources required
- Define lean product test and evolution plan
- Identify milestones and success metrics with investment team
- Identify portco team development objectives and pathway
Build
- Develop MVP to meet client needs
- Develop product infrastructure to scale
- Develop sales training, customer support, and operations processes
Optimize
- Measure and analyze usage, client interaction, sales cycle, renew/reorder/churn
- Experiment and adapt to optimize KPIs
- Demonstrate evolution of team skills and capabilities