Your startup is your baby and you want to make sure that it gets only the best – whether it is someone helping you go all the way to the final set of investment or your first pitch, you will want proper business consulting services. When you have professionals helping you out, you can be sure that you will have the right advice and the most appropriate path to get there.
But how do you choose the best startup consultants for your specific needs? There are some pointers that you can keep in mind while making the choice:
• Look at the kind of services that the company offers – you need to choose someone who is ready to offer the kind of specific services that you are looking for. You also need to check about the alignment of their objectives – they should somewhere match with yours.
• When you talk to them for the first time, you should be able to get a sense that they are not only understanding what you want to convey, but also show an eagerness to get started.
• If you are looking for specific services, such as pitch deck consulting services, then you need to get the clarity on that from the get go. They might pitch their own set of services, but you need to stand clear on what it is that you expect from them and get a start as well as end date at the beginning itself.
• While most service providers will demarcate what their services will entail, there is nothing wrong in asking for an extension in the contract – this could mean a slight amount of flexibility in terms of time or even addition of services at a later stage. So, let’s say you hired a company to provide you with building your pitch and business model, but you feel that you might need help with locating investors too, you can consider the same firm to become one of your investor headhunting firms too.
At Spectup, we go beyond just fundraising consulting services – we offer you everything that you, as a startup, might be looking for!