Value Creation Coaching

The Investment Grade Coaching & Advisory Board program is exclusive to the Silicon Y’all community and is geared toward growth-oriented entrepreneurs. Founders Advisors leverages its investment banking & sector coverage expertise alongside leading industry consultants & advisors to support entrepreneurs along their journey to create investment grade companies.

This peer group program focuses on SaaS and software-enabled service company owners and operators, and each peer group is highly curated to ensure companies have similar attributes. The selection process targets CEOs that have a giver orientation, offer an area of expertise to the group, commit to regular attendance and contribution to peers, and have a relentless commitment to growth.

Please reach out to our team if you’re interested in discussing the program and upcoming cohorts.

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Objectives

Accelerate enterprise value creation, yielding a better business to hold & operate while also generating more exit optionality
Create investment grade companies that are attractive and sellable to both private equity firms and strategic buyers
Close the knowledge and skill gap compared to institutionally-backed peers by helping founders move to more of a “professional” CEO role
Provide owners and operators with a peer group of other growth-oriented CEOs
Offer private equity portfolio company-like services with no equity dilution
Benchmark your business against other high performing peers while also understanding your company’s current valuation, including key needle movers

How We Do This

Monthly classes on strategies and operations led by software-focused private equity groups and market experts
KPI benchmarking reviews and peer accountability
Highly curated referral network of functional area specialists
Monthly group meetings to process key issues and decisions with peer CEOs and advisory group leader

Sample Program Topics

Creating an M&A landscape and execution playbook
How to assess pricing and charge higher rates
Common problems in unit economics and how to fix them
How to use customer segmentation to unlock meaningful growth and outsized margins
Identifying structural barriers to becoming investment grade
Best practices for establishing scalable business processes
What to do before establishing a board of directors and how to work with these advisors
Hiring a sales team that can scale and why 90% of companies initially hire the wrong people for this role
What to expect from a CFO and what a well-run finance department looks like
How to design and execute a product/service road map