Business Plan Consultants in San Francisco & Silicon Valley

Cayenne Consulting is an international business plan consulting firm. Our representatives in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley serve entrepreneurs throughout the region, including San Francisco, San Jose, Palo Alto, Mountain View, San Mateo, Sunnyvale, Redwood City, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Los Gatos, San Rafael, Oakland, Berkeley, Walnut Creek, Fremont, Stockton, Sacramento, Milpitas, Concord, and Santa Rosa. The Pacific Northwest, including Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, and Vancouver, BC, are also served out of our San Francisco office.

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 San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Plan Team

Alex Durig, Ph.D. - Principal Consultant

San Francisco, CA

Alex began writing business plans full-time in 2006 after working in sales and management for seven years. He has worked with companies such as Wal*Mart, Ramada Plaza Resorts, and Fairfield Resorts, as well as several small businesses.

Before that he was a college professor for eleven years. Drawing on a background in social psychology and real-world management experience, Alex specializes not only in plan writing but also in start-up and expansion consulting. Alex received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Indiana University. He was a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow in National Institute of Mental Health research training programs. Alex has published two books about autism, "Autism and the Crisis of Meaning" and "How to Understand Autism - The Easy Way," as well as numerous articles in academic journals including a coauthorship in The Encyclopedia of Sociology.

Alex lives in San Francisco and his hobbies include playing guitar and chess.

Patrick O'Hearn - Principal Consultant

Silicon Valley

Pat is a serial entrepreneur and has held senior executive positions in management, marketing, operations and engineering during over 35 years in the electronics industry. He began his career as a custom silicon chip designer at National Semiconductor and became manager of the Motorola European Design Center, developing embedded microprocessors. He transitioned to marketing, heading up International Marketing for Philips in the Netherlands then into General Management, managing Profit and Loss accounts of $200M+. He has been a senior executive in the communication and semiconductor industry in large multinational corporations such as Plessey, Philips, Fujitsu, Motorola and Cirrus Logic.

While holding an executive position at Philips, Pat helped to form Silicon Architects, an innovative ASIC design company. He arranged a Philips investment and helped to attract leading venture capitalists to form an independent start up. The company was sold 4 years later to Synopsis, earning a healthy return for the stakeholders. Pat served as the founding President and CEO of ATM Limited, a network switching company and raised over $20M in venture investment from leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists. Prior to its IPO the company was renamed Virata Corp. and subsequently merged with Globespan to become GlobespanVirata. Pat served as President and CEO of InTalk, a pioneer in Wireless LAN (WiFi). He negotiated the sale of the company to Nokia, earning a significant return for the stakeholders.

Prior to joining Cayenne Consulting, Pat was Founder and Managing Partner of Sapiential Prime, an executive mentoring company which provided hands-on support to early stage companies. Pat’s skills include creating compelling business plans, financial models and powerful marketing strategies and aligning management teams behind them. He has specialized skills in intellectual property management and creating long term partnerships and contracts. Over 70% of Sapiential Prime’s clients achieved significant success and either executed IPOs or were acquired.

Principal Consultant, MBA

San Francisco, CA - Bay Area

Our San Francisco consultant has over twenty years of experience as a management consultant. He specializes in working with San Francisco Bay Area / Silicon Valley companies seeking venture capital. He is the author of numerous business plans leading to successful multi-million dollar investments. His plans have been used to raise capital, to solve critical business problems, and to persuade investors, boards, and senior management to take action. His plans are effective because they are based upon thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis, yet are able to communicate complex ideas in a simple straightforward manner.

He has client experience in high tech, green tech / alternative energy, commercial real estate, construction materials, financial services, biotech, aerospace, manufacturing, hospitality, and service industries.

He earned his MBA from Harvard University and his BA in Biochemistry from Brown University.

In addition to our San Francisco area 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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