Our Services
Companies do not grow in a straight line. For many successful startups and scale-ups the evolution to grown-up is accompanied by growing pains. Because as companies grow and get bigger, the challenges they face also change. Sustainable growth simply does not happen without professionalization, structure and processes.
And as a result, the way the company operates and is managed has to change continuously during each stage of the life cycle. Because as a company grows, the nature of what it needs to do to be successful also changes and often these changes have quite an impact. This particularly relates to the entrepreneur/founder himself.
Most companies do not grow beyond a certain size. They simply do not make the transformation needed to move to the next stage. So the secret to sustainable growth and success lies in the ability of the business in general and the entrepreneur in particular to adapt to the changing needs of the business as it grows. This is the most crucial skill at any stage of a business life cycle.
This skill is especially important for founders of and investors in technology ("tech") companies. These companies have the characteristic that exponential growth can quickly turn into an equally rapid downturn. The risk of disruption is always present. It is therefore not surprising that in this sector only 4% of all start-ups eventually reach the grown-up stage.
During a company's growth stages, the company grows within the existing frameworks. But at the end of each stage, the company have to deal with growing pains. Growth slows down and scalability and profitability decline. The transition to the next growth stage requires a change in frameworks, structure, culture and leadership. The role of the entrepreneur also changes with each phase. In fact at the end of each growth stage you as an entrepreneur yourself are the bottleneck for further growth.
But you also have the solution in your own hands, at least if you manage to change your own role. Next-Round helps companies and entrepreneurs in the "tech" sector to navigate from one stage to another.
We do this by providing concrete and independent advice to drive scalability and growth, improve organizational performance and solve operational problems so that ultimately the value of your business will increase
Based on our experience, Next-Round's services have a broad scope so that, depending on the stage your business is in, we can support you with:
- Financial (re)structuring
- Due diligence (financial/technical)
- Private equity
- Executive coaching
- Team & leadership development
- Strategy development
- Business planning
- Personal advice
- Change management
- Business development
- Interim management
Next-Round works both directly for entrepreneurs but also for private equity parties, offering our services on an informal and formalized basis. In practice, this means that we coach entrepreneurs on an individual level but we also often participate in Advisory or Supervisory Boards.
An Advisory Board is a useful tool to give more structure to advice on the growth of your business and around strategically important topics. Because of our independent view and valuable knowledge and experience, provided the BoA meets with some regularity, we can make a significant contribution to the success of the company in both the short and long term.
