Every startup needs a champion
Reach your business goals sooner with our startup coaching service, covering everything from the basics to long term planning.
What is startup coaching?
When most people hear the word startup, they’re most likely to think of the 90s and its endless streams of venture capital money and ambitious tech entrepreneurs.
It’s not entirely unjustified given that’s when the term entered mainstream use. However, today it applies equally whether you have a blockbuster idea for a digital innovation or just a humble t-shirt printing business.
After all, they share one important thing in common: they’re new.
What can a startup coach do for me?
A startup coach is a special kind of business consultant for people with sound ideas for businesses but less understanding of how to get them up and ticking along smoothly.
As a boutique accounting consultancy with deep experience managing the financial and administrative aspects of companies across a broad range of industries, Boss Intelligence is ideally placed to help you get through the crucial early stages of starting a business and on a path to success, whatever that might mean for you personally.
Where do we begin?
The first step in startup coaching is an initial consultation to scope the potential of your business idea and find out a little more about you: your experience, vision and personal aspirations.
After that, we’ll need to discuss basic operating requirements. The conversation could touch on numerous topics ranging from operating structures and registration requirements to trading names, legal business identifiers, branding, tax considerations and licensing.
Depending on the structure that’s most suitable for your business and its size, you may have regulatory obligations you hadn’t contemplated. That could mean systems for Single Touch Payroll and superannuation if you’re planning to take on staff. With our startup coaching service, we’ll help you cut through technical jargon and explore your options from an informed position.
What then?
Once we’ve identified your needs, we’ll develop a proposal for a bespoke plan of action which we’ll provide in a format suitable for your needs. This could include taking on a role to act as your agent for reporting obligations, representing you to authorities like the ATO and ASIC and others. You can read our handy startup checklist for more detail about what might be involved.
Next steps for startups
Once your business is established, we can explore advanced options like our Business Optimiser tools. You can use these to start setting some initial goals and start working toward them. You can find out more about them here.
If my business isn't new, can I still get advice?
In our advisory capacity, we cater to business owners at all stages of their journey. Our startup coaching naturally skews toward helping new and early-stage businesses, including those that want to acquire an existing business but have little prior administrative experience.
However, we offer business coaching services for businesses of just about any size as part of our Business Optimiser service and warmly welcome your business enquiries.
For establised businesses
We generally need to understand more sophisticated and nuanced aspects of established businesses. That could include current performance, culture, administrative systems and myriad processes involved in managing its finances. For instance, we often find that new clients have no or only very primitive accounting systems in place and need help and advice to modernise them.
- An initial consult to identify business needs such as a trading name ABN, GST registration or other more sophisticated instruments
- A proposal to put these into action and act as your agent
- Explore using our Business Optimiser service to start setting goals
more resources
Read our startup checklist for a more detailed breakdown of things you need to to consider when starting a business.
Head to our micro-publication, The Boss Diaries, for news and advice for businesses.
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