Our Approach

The 4SME team works through eight core competencies that constantly drive results for our clients:

1. Align the business and lifestyle objectives of its owners. We establish strategy and structure around a business ensuring succession plans (including taking on additional investors where necessary) are put in place and making your business ‘sale ready’ or ‘investment ready’ within an agreed time frame.
2. Develop and drive a strategic plan for the business. Every growing business needs to have a strategic plan underpinning the preparation of budgets, marketing, and HR plans.  And those moving into the online space need to understand the potential impacts of their decisions and be guided to the best approach for their success.
3. Create and implement an operational plan. It is critical to put in place a measurable program to track the operations of your business, complete with regular reporting processes.  This keeps management, staff and consultants accountable for your success every step of the way and enables early intervention on cash flow issues.
4. Protection of your intellectual capital. The online space has a number of differences to a traditional bricks and mortar business.  It is critical that your security systems are cutting edge and that you have the appropriate software agreements in place to protect your ideas.  Given the nature of the online world additional precautions need to be considered whenever discussing your ideas with any external parties. The 4SME team is experienced in traversing the IP tight rope of the online world.
5. Arrange Boards of Advisors for our clients’ businesses. We establish a board of advisors in many fast growing businesses to assist in guiding them to the next level, and acting as a sounding platform for decisions along the way.  A board of Advisors with a strong track record will offer the credibility sought by many financiers, suppliers and customers early in the growth phase.
6. Arrange for introductions to influential decision makers. The 4SME team is well connected and pride ourselves on linking our clients to investment partners, financiers, specialist services providers, Government departments, industry leaders, business mentors and key customers and suppliers.  We also assist in key negotiations, making our clients more successful.
7. Manage capital requirements, allocations and decision making. 4SME manage the key capital requirements of their clients’ businesses, overseeing cash flows, understanding funding requirements, and coordinating investments, divestments and equity placements on their behalf.  We place both direct and indirect investment into a wide variety of businesses with accelerated growth prospects and help clients with their capital decision making in a proactive way.
8. Attract further investment or debt funding and taking to IPO status. The 4SME team is well connected and work with Clients to attract further investment or debt funding.  Additionally, we work on developing internal systems and procedures that will enable your venture to pursue an IPO listing.