“Most of the time the darn customers don’t behave as you predicted.” - Steve Blank
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Business Services for Entrepreneurs
You have questions, Nanokore has proven processes.
Your start-up is essentially a temporary organization built to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. As a founder you start out with:
1) a vision of a product with a set of features,
2) a series of hypotheses about all the pieces of the business model:
Who are the customers/users?
What’s the distribution channel?
How do we price and position the product?
How do we create end user demand?
Who are our partners?
Where/how do we build the product?
How do we finance the company?, etc.
Your job as a founder is to quickly validate whether the model is correct by seeing if customers behave as your model predicts. - Steve Blank
New Entity Formation & Incubation Services
Business in a Box
Nanokore’s innovative digital “Business in a Box” can make launching your new entity can be as easy as “flipping a switch”. All aspects of launching a new entity are provided as a single service and are executed within 100 days. A GAP analysis is performed to produce a 100 Day Plan with an comprehensive quote for our cost effective, turnkey ‘Business in a Box’ services. Start-up risks are identified and managed early in the process. For instance, establishing early strategic relationships for LARA documents, trademarks and domain names can minimize costly rework of marketing materials and brand building costs.
The 100 day plan covers all operational aspects of your new entity including: Comprehensive Information Technology Systems Setup; State and Federal Employer Number Setup with Bank & Credit Card Processing Setup; Human Resource Plan; Values & Mission Statements; Standard Operating Procedures (SOP); Intellectual Property Strategy (Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights and Trade Secrets); Lease Agreements and municipality CofO with Floor Plans; Business Plan Review; Financial Plan & Projections; Accounting system implementation; Account system integration with IT and banking systems & CPA Setup; Business Cases; Market Research with FAB Analysis; Products or Services Development with an Operational Plan (In/Out Logistics, WIP, Program Management).
To further minimize new entity formation risk, Nanokore provides comprehensive training and turnover services to operate your new entity. By partnering with Certified Public Accountants (CPA), Law Firms, accounting software providers, State and Federal agencies, marketing companies, etc Nanokore gets your company up and running efficiently. Minimally, budgets are established to fit your companies needs for critical CPA Legal Services including Intellectual Property, review or creation of Corporate Articles, State Filings, Op Agreement (for LLC’s) and By-Laws (for Corp’s).
Minimize risk and save money today with Nanokore’s low cost new entity formation services.
Business INCUBATION can be thought of as a “hatching” process. Costs must be managed in a way for the new entity to get financially healthy.
“Needs” based entrepreneurs who must pay bills should look at models that produce cash faster.
“Opportunity” based entrepreneurs can look at models which require much higher cash outlays for much longer periods of time.
Commercialization & Acceleration Services
Product to Market Fit
Business Model to Market Fit
Website Development
Intellectual Property Strategies
Pricing Model Development
Supply Chain Development
Standard Operating Procedure Development
Quality Systems Development
Founder and C-Suite Mentoring
Staffing - Human Resource and Culture Strategies
IT - Full Service Systems Integration
Business ACCELERATION can be thought of as “bringing up to speed”. Nanokore offers a full set of entrepreneurial services that fit together like a glove to move your enterprise further and faster. Clients enjoy one-stop-shopping utilizing our Second Stage services. Our clients benefit from a systems based, turnkey approach which defines the destination before the journey begins.
Does this sound familiar?
✔ You have a great idea for a new product or service but you have no idea how to proceed
✔ You've tried to develop your product or service but you are overwhelmed by the challenges
✔ You know nothing about marketing and selling your product or service
✔ Or vice-versa, you know how to market and sell your product but not how to make it
✔ You've come to realize you can't do this all by yourself. You know you need help!
Nanokore will help you to:
✔ Navigate Michigan’s (MEDC) entrepreneurial financing and support services
✔ Commercialize your new product or service
✔ Manage cost and risk to develop your new product or service
✔ Not be so confused and overwhelmed on how to best proceed
✔ Attain a professional certificate in “Entrepreneurial” from an accredited school
✔ Build your intellectual property portfolio
✔ Build your global supply chain
When Nanokore’s proprietary V-Model process is combined with our version of APQP and the a Value Chain Model for the founders, a powerful growth and risk management tool for funding and milestones emerge.
Top of the V
Double V's are now also used to manage complex designs. It is entirely possible to layer multiple V’s during the development of a new company into a 3 dimensional model.
Applying APQP
Having a clear understanding of what customers want, need, and expect in a product is required to ensure customer product expectations are met in every way. The Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is a process that can help entrepreneur's achieve their goals.
Value Chain
Porter’s value chain can serve as an important part of strategizing the operational milestones to deliver the right business model to market fit.