Empowering Entrepreneurs
with C-Suite Advisory Services
ACT4Value(tm) Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs(tm) is a Scottsdale-based, North American Business Management Consulting Firm that specializes in providing C-Suite Advisory Services to Entrepreneurs.
Our team of experienced advisors work collaboratively alongside client CEOs, providing perspective, advice, and hands-on experience to support and guide entrepreneurs in various aspects of their businesses, including overcoming growth, scale, leadership, succession, and pre-exit challenges.
Our tailored services aim to accelerate return on innovation and operations by understanding the health and unmet potential of your Enterprise Value Drivers.
Get in touch with us today to see how we can help you achieve your business goals.
Enterprise Value Drivers
While there are many EV Drivers, from our perspective these are the most consequential.
What is your unmet Enterprise Value potential? Why does it matter?
How would your business be viewed?
01.
Strategic Growth
02.
Operational
Scale
03.
Leadership
Culture
04.
Transition Readiness
05.
Exit
Optimized
What is driving your Enterprise's Value? What is holding you back? What is putting you at risk? What's most important now?
Do you have sufficient Financing to support your planned growth? Do you know if you need it? Can you get it? Are you "bankable?" Are Investors calling you? Know how to structure debt, equity, ownership most favorably for the Owners, and for Your Family?
Has Revenue or Profit Growth stagnated? Is your customer base overly concentrated? Are you generating enough recurring revenue to be an attractive investment? Are your gross and net margins acceptable? Are you generating sufficient cash?
What happens if you become incapacitated, or worse? Who and how will the business operate the day after? What impact for your Family? Is the business truly prepared for an unplanned transition?
Are there inefficiencies, breakdowns or leadership issues impacting the Business' Operations? Are you losing customers almost as fast as you gain new ones? Is your day consumed too much with "fixes" or "repairs" front-office, back-office or factory operations?
Want to exit, but don't know how? Does the proposition of selling your business look like a lot of work? Would you appreciate an experienced entrepreneur "on your side" providing an objectivity?
ACT4Value(tm) serves start-ups, early-stage and mature enterprise business owners with growth, scale, leadership, succession and pre-exit challenges and barriers to maximizing your Enterprise Value.
"How can we Enhance Your Enterprise Value Today?"
Our Proprietary Approach
Our Mission
is
Your Success!
Our aim is to breakthrough the barriers impeding your vision.
We do not have a predetermined outcome in mind. Rather, we tailor our advice and recommendations to your unique needs, based on a proven, gated-stage process. This reduces your risks while keeping us accountable to deliver demonstrable value at each stage of our work together.
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To facilitate this work, we have built a hybridized set of industry and proprietary tools into a custom platform that generates more accurate and targeted data - providing unique, actionable, and value-added insights into your business; enabling us to craft recommendations that are not just strategic, but incredibly operationally focused.
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Depending on your end-goals, we will engage in one or more of these gated-stages:
Evaluate.
An objective, multi-dimensional perspective
You are the expert at your business. Our job is to listen and understand what is happening, to discover where you aspire to go, and to identify the biggest barriers to overcome. We use a series of objective tools to assess traditional metrics plus external factors, internal operations and growth levers for a confidential, 360 degree view of your business.
Plan.
A collaboratively built, strategic roadmap
Having identified barriers and risks to achieving your potential enterprise value, this stage facilitates a strategic planning process to prioritize specific improvement initiatives and holds the Leadership Team accountable for its progress.
Improve.
We all roll-up our sleeves
Improvement initiatives identified in the prior stage of work can be undertaken by the Clients' team, a third-party, or by ACT4Value -- your choice. What matters most is that the work gets done well and on time. These are the efforts that will generate the greatest sustainable impact on Enterprise Value.
Coach.
Trusted Advisor & Voice of Reason
Whether your business is pre-revenue, mid POC, launching an expansion or engaging in a transition, having a trusted advisor to "walk-along-side" you is tremendously helpful. As business owners and entrepreneurs ourselves, we get it because we have traveled these paths and can help you avoid the pitfalls along the journey.
Capitalize.
Eventually We All Exit; Will You Capitalize?
The best time to start planing for an Exit is when you start your business. Most Entrepreneurs don't. Secondly, there isn't one exit-plan that fits every business. Our mission is to help you be equipped to maximize your potential enterprise value while working along-side on the path for a smooth exit that best meets your goals.
Win!
What's your Win?
Done well, your business grows and thrives. You maximize your Enterprise Value. You achieve your desired work-life balance, both for you and your employees, and you deliver meaningful value to your customers. But how you get there is up to you and may very well depend on whom you choose as your Entrepreneur Advisory partner.
ACT4Value looks forward to helping you achieve your best vision!
Who We Are
We are ACT4Value(tm) Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs(tm), a Scottsdale-based, North American Business Management Consulting Firm founded in 2003.
Our team of advisors are all seasoned C-suite executives and entrepreneurs with experience in start-up companies, buy-side and/or sell-side M&A.
We're passionate about helping entrepreneurs overcome the challenges of growth, scale, leadership, succession, and pre-exit. With our personalized solutions and practitioner-based guidance, we'll give your company the insights, tools and practices you need to meet and surpass your goals.
Client Success Stories
CEO / Founder -
Speciality
Chemical Processor
"ACT4Value Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs provided invaluable guidance and support that helped me take my business to the next level. Their team of experienced advisors have a deep understanding of the challenges entrepreneurs face and provided tailored solutions that helped me overcome growth and scale challenges.
"Since doing the collaboratieve strategy work, our leadership team engagement has skyrockedted and more importantly, our financials are reflecting it as well."
"I highly recommend them to any entrepreneur looking to achieve their business goals."
Co-Owners -
Regional Home Construction Specialist
"ACT4Value Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs was instrumental in helping us navigate the complex landscape of pre-exit planning.
"Their team of experts provided invaluable advice and hands-on experience that helped us successfully sell our business. We couldn't have done it without them."
CEO / Founder -
SaaS Asset Management Solution
Provider
"In our business, we're the Engineering experts.
"We were constantly being approached by investors interested in 'helping us.' It was tempting, but we didn't lacked the basics: a business plan, financial projections, and a growth game plan.
"ACT4Value Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs brought the commercial, financial and operations expertise that we didn't have to layout strategic options for smartly accelerating our growth and to determine when and how we could use investment money."
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CEO / Founder -Digital
Engineering
Services Company
"Working with ACT4Value Advisory Services 4 Entrepreneurs was a game-changer for my business. Their team of experienced advisors provided me with the perspective and guidance I needed to overcome proof of concept and initial traction challenges."