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Some of the areas in which we provide support and advice:
We can cast an experienced eye over your business plan and make constructive suggestions for improvement in content, presentation or strategy as necessary. Alternatively, we can work alongside you to prepare a business plan.
What is your technology worth and how do you convince an investor, a licensor or a purchaser to agree with you? We have extensive experience in evaluating technologies and development stage products. This work is usually presented as a written report with supporting spreadsheet models.
The best value can be extracted when licensing a product or technology by creating the correct deal structure. It is also vital to thoroughly check contracts from a commercial perspective, not just the legal angles. You should always work with your lawyers as well as with us, but we can help ensure that the commercial terms create the correct incentives for both parties and that you have not left value on the table inadvertently.
You know many people in the industry who could become your next customer or partner, but sometimes you can benefit from additional contacts. We can bring our network to supplement yours and can also work with you to develop and hone that critical first impression in the elevator pitch, the presentations and fliers.
Is your company going through a critical period of its development when it could really benefit from the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of an experienced industry professional, but it is too small to afford such a person? Sivaden can provide a suitable individual, or even a team, to provide that missing expertise or increase the bandwidth for a specific period of time. Once the critical period is past or when you have the resources to take on your own employees, we move on to help someone else.
Many young biotech companies miss out on having the benefit of an independent non-executive on their boards. Often the boards comprise the founders and the investors. These individuals know the business well, but an independent NED can bring broader industry insight without the distractions of the day-to-day business. They can also help to diffuse or pre-empt misunderstandings or tensions between the founders and the investors.
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