Find your first clients and advisors when you start a company
“I’m starting a company: who in my network could be my first clients or advisors?”
Your first clients and advisors are almost always people who already know your work. We rebuild your network, find who now has the problem your company solves, or the budget for it, and who has built a similar business, then rank them by how close you are.
Who it’s for
Executives leaving a large company to found or buy a business, and consultants going independent.
What we look for in your network
- Who owns the problem you solve, in which company, today
- Buyers you worked with before
- Founders who built something close
- Investors and operators among your former colleagues
- How close you are, and who can introduce you
An extract of what comes back
Sarah Cohen COO, Groupe Vautrin
Owns the budget your service addresses.
Your client, 2015 to 2018.
Lucas Moreau Founder, Pellucid
Built and sold a similar business in 2023.
Same school, two years apart.
Anna Rossi Partner, Alpenrock Advisory
Advises companies in your first target sector.
Worked with you on a 2020 project.
+ 95 more potential first clients in the full document, each with its reason
Fictional people and companies. The level of detail is real.
What you receive
Three short lists (first clients, advisors, possible backers), each name with the reason and how you know them.
It starts with your network rebuilt in ten working days: careers dated, where you know each person from, how close you were, who can reintroduce you. Delivered in person, as a workbook you can filter, a searchable page and a clean address book for your iPhone.
An NDA before any file is shared. To find someone, only a name and a company leave your address book.
You choose who stays out of the search.
Professional facts only: nothing on wealth, health, religion or legal matters.
Everything deleted at the end, with a dated certificate.
Questions
- Is this sales prospecting?
- No mass outreach and no data broker. It’s your own relationships, rebuilt and ranked.
- Do you need my business plan?
- A sentence on what you do is enough.
- What happens to my data afterwards?
- Deleted at the end, with a written certificate. You keep the deliverables.