Expert Business Plan Writers in Florida

Cayenne Consulting is an international business plan consulting firm. Our representative in Florida serves entrepreneurs across the state, including the cities of Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale, and Tallahassee, Cape Coral, Port St. Lucie, West Palm Beach, and Boca Raton.

Our professional business plan consultants work with entrepreneurs in the following areas:

• Strategy development
• Market research and analysis
• Competitor research and analysis
• Business plan development
• Financial analysis
• Financial forecast development
• Investor presentation (PowerPoint) preparation
• General coaching and advisory services
• Capital formation strategy

Cayenne's Florida-Based Business Plan Team

Sandy Graham, MBA, MS Ec - Principal Consultant

Tampa, FL

Sandy has over 20 years of experience in achieving business growth objectives for new ventures, university startups, Stage One and Two growth companies, and established corporations in the fields of alternative energy, software, telecommunications, manufacturing, biotech, financial services, insurance, and food service. Sandy’s core competencies include business plan development, strategic planning, market opportunity analysis, profitability assessment, revenue generation, business process improvement, client relations and B2B partner development.

Before joining Cayenne, Sandy was the Managing Partner for his own small business consulting practice where he provided winning business development strategies, plans and solutions to new ventures and small business clients in multiple market segments. Earlier, Sandy took a sabbatical to earn an MBA and worked with university-based startups where he developed business and commercialization plans and STTR/SBIR grants. He was awarded the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Internship in Entrepreneurship.

Prior to this, Sandy was a Senior Consultant for IBM Global Services, holding several critical assignments that included managing national business development teams; developing business proposals in response to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs; and developing and managing client relationships that increased sales $14 million. Before joining IBM, Sandy was a Senior Consultant with ESI International, charged improving and streamlining business processes for ESI’s corporate clients.

Sandy earned an MBA with distinction from the University of South Florida with core concentrations in Entrepreneurship and Management Leadership. He also earned an MS in Economics from the University of Tennessee and a BA in Economics from the University of South Florida. He is the author of See the Green$: Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dream about achieving successful business growth.

Dennis Pape, Ph.D. - Principal Consultant

Orlando, FL

Dennis brings over twenty nine years of experience with high technology companies, from research scientist to manager to start-up founder to entrepreneur, corporate, and investor advisor. His primary expertise is in advising and directing new venture business, technology, and product development. He has strong technical, communication, organizational, and business skills with technical expertise in optics, photonics, optical networks, acoustics, electronics, communications, and medical devices.

Dennis has authored or co-authored business plans and investor presentations that have resulted in over $200M in institutional venture capital funding. He has hands-on experience as both a CEO and CTO during a new venture's formative stage. He was a key player in a number of corporate technology spin-outs while he was at Milcom Technologies, a venture capital backed corporate spin-out firm.

Prior to joining Milcom, Dennis founded and was President of Photonic Systems Incorporated (PSI) in Melbourne, Florida. His firm specialized in the development of optical information processing technology products for both government and commercial customers. He secured seed venture capital funding for the firm and was responsible for the firm's technical leadership position in its field, which resulted in the award of over $7 Million of government R&D contracts, which he managed. Before founding PSI, Dennis worked as a Group Leader at Harris Corporation and as a Member of the Technical Staff at Texas Instruments. Dennis is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Central Florida Technology Incubator. He is a member of AUTM, IEEE, SPIE, and OSA. He is the coeditor of a book, the author of 3 book chapters and some 50 publications, and was the organizer of numerous national and international conferences in the field of optical information processing.

Dennis earned an AB in Physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Physics from Duke University.

In addition to our Florida-based business planning team, we have many other business plan consultants distributed worldwide. Depending on your specific circumstances, one of our other team members may be a better fit for your needs. We will do our best to ensure that the consultant responsible for managing your engagement is the person on our team who is best qualified to serve you.

Cayenne Consulting's Advantages

Most so-called "business plan consultants" simply take what you say and put it on paper. We go much deeper and help you develop the most viable strategy for success, which we then communicate in a compelling business plan. As a result, nearly all of our clients are able to secure meetings with investors, and over two-thirds have succeeded in raising capital or selling their companies. We challenge you to find another consulting firm that can make this claim. A business plan developed by Cayenne Consulting could make the difference between your success and failure.

• Save Time: Save literally hundreds of hours... valuable time you can devote to your products, customers, and company.
• Save Money: We are not cheap, but about half of our clients came to us after a business plan prepared by a less qualified consultant did not work out. Why not get it right the first time and save money?
• Work with Experts: Our business plan consultants are second to none. We are experienced entrepreneurs and understand what you are going through. We have deep and broad experience in creating and executing upon business models of all kinds. We have a keen sense of what works in the marketplace and what doesn't. Many of us have MBAs or PhDs from schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Wharton, CalTech, Cornell, Columbia, and Chicago. We also have experts in market research, FDA/regulatory issues, financial modeling, and other fields.
• One Consultant: Some firms assign a team of consultants to your business. That means you're paying to get multiple individuals up to speed. This approach is costly, and makes it difficult to ensure that all materials have the same "voice" and consistency. Our approach avoids these problems.
• Get it Right the First Time: Learn about the pros and cons of various approaches to developing business plans.
• No Salespeople: We don't have a slick sales professional "sell" you and then hand you off to a junior consultant you know nothing about. From Day 1, you will deal directly with the senior consultant who will actually work with you. That way, you know exactly what you're getting.
• Ongoing Support: We don't stop when the business plan is done. We have a talented team ready to help you implement it as well, either on a retained basis as interim members of your founding team or on a project basis, as needed.

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