WHAT WE DO FOR VENTURE INVESTORS

Sand Hill Partners reduces the amount of capital and time required for VC portfolio companies to nail the product, nail the target customer profile, and scale the sales model. We help venture-backed start-ups get it right the first time.

Further, our unique methodology gives an investor reliable optics on the success of a portfolio company's product and business model before the expense and time of full-scale development, launch and sales. With Sand Hill Partners, a CEO can minimize monthly cash burn while we work our process hands-on with a small team to test out and dial-in the market sweet spot, product concept, product definition, effective messaging, and sales model - all in a manner of weeks.

The big idea is to enable a venture investor to make a much smaller initial investment that reduces the risk and accelerates the return of a larger follow-on tranche. Our process is predictive - we find out early if there is a "there" there. We work with desired customers to segment out the areas of highest pain, determine real price points, and isolate the minimal viable product requirement (all the way down to the exact user experience and feature set.)

Sand Hill Partners is an especially good resource for hands-on triage when a portfolio company is struggling to uncork its sales and make its numbers. Sand Hill Partners helps VC's increase and accelerate returns from their portfolio investments.

WHAT WE DO FOR START-UPS

Sand Hill Partners offers an introductory assessment in which we meet with the executive team to ascertain the stage and critical success factors necessary to blast through the company's most pressing business objectives.

Sand Hill Partners usually focuses its work on first providing relief for the business issues the company leaders see as most pressing. Executives are often surprised to discover that many of the issues they face fall into a pattern based on the particular stage of the company. Contact Sand Hill Partners for a free, in-person (in Silicon Valley) assessment to learn the best solutions to your most pressing business issues. You can also try our free online assessment, or peruse the pages below to learn more about critical success factors at each stage of a start-up's growth:

STAGE ONE- PRE-REVENUE

STAGE TWO-REPEATABLE BUSINESS MODEL

STAGE THREE-TARGET MARKET LEADER

STAGE FOUR- PROFITABLE GROWTH

STAGE FIVE-TRULY GREAT COMPANY

STRATEGY SESSIONS
Sand Hill Partners offers productive, intensive strategy sessions bringing resolution and focus to key business issues. We leverage over thirty years of experience in designing and facilitating crisp sessions that produce the desired outcomes. The sessions can be offered at company offices or at one of Sand Hill Partners designated offsite locations offering some of the most desirable, scenic and creative settings in Silicon Valley. Sand Hill Partners has extensive experience with Executive strategy sessions, Board of Directors strategy offsites, and offsites for operations teams such as Engineering, Sales, and Marketing.