Reducing the "Adventure" for New Ventures

Your Profile

You are a partner in a prominent VC firm. You have multiple software investments. Even though you are commercially savvy, and have internal advisors who are more in-tune with technology, you really have to rely on the due diligence reports to decide viability of a new project. Most importantly, when it comes to money, you are the one who is footing the bill.

Your Problem

You receive a large number of plans - few of which already have a high-caliber software development team. You know that it is slow and expensive to build such a team and that this can be the critical path item for a new venture.

The entrepreneurs are experts or visionaries in their respective fields. Yet, some new software, is usually required - sometimes a lot of it! Be it communications, genetics, eBusiness, or traditional software, someone, will need to design the software and the network architecture, build a prototype, and then produce the product. Someone will need to manage development, develop realistic project plans, estimate and cost the effort, and, just as importantly, measure and track progress.

Our Solution

Expertise

ShouldersCorp has professionals with 10+ years of software development and management experience. Several members of the team have held senior executive and management positions in venture-funded companies.

Approach

Our consultants can apply their experience with software business models, technology choices, system design and architecture decisions and estimation models to evaluate the viability of the plan. These consultants can also evaluate technical teams, development environments, tools, practices and processes.

Our instructors even teach an Innovation Workshop that deals with the critical aspects of Internet Application Development. It's designed for entrepreneurs, so they will have advance warning of the potential pitfalls of software development and learn how to bring in projects in a hurry.

Our hands-on technical project managers, have proprietary approaches for thorough project audits, formulate extensive project plans, track progress, deal with loose ends, and establish on-going metrics.

Finally, ShouldersCorp is experienced in carrying out 100-day projects to build full-blown products. ShouldersCorp can even provide fully outsourced software development solutions. ShouldersCorp has an impeccable record of delivering projects "on time, on spec, and on budget!"

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