EVERY STARTUP BUSINESS NEEDS PARTNERS: It is extremely rare for a business to achieve success by the lone efforts of its founders. To overcome challenges most effectively, every business needs to partner with established advisors who act as a trusted extension of their business.

Such advisors include experienced business attorneys, industry-specific experts, business brokers, human resources specialists and commercial finance institutions. Their role is to advise and create solutions to technical problems and to provide credibility to third parties that the problems that inevitably face a business are and will be addressed, even if the founders lack expertise in those technical areas. And obtaining funding is extremely difficult unless you are perceived as having trusted legal and other advisors.

This does not mean that you need a staff of expensive partners, each dipping their nose in the trough. Our role is to help you identify where you need additional help, decide if our expertise covers that area, and if it does not, to assist you in choosing and supervising the correct advisors.

HOW WE HELP: Searching for, locating and evaluating a business attorney or other partner takes a lot of time and requires expertise in itself. Choosing someone from the Yellow Pages is not an option. And once you've located and selected a partner, negotiating the alliance at a reasonable cost involves substantial nuance.

We offer the ability to source the right partners, access the right decision maker, and then work with you and them to create a strong and lasting alliance.