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We build companies.
Advantary offers a suite of services in key practices that are targeted to small- to mid-size companies and their founders, investors, and C-level executives.
Insight
Is Your Business a Diamond in the Rough?
When mining for diamonds, what are you looking for? What are you seeing? How can you determine the potential value of a diamond in the rough? Isn’t every new business venture, from a raw startup to a re-start of a Read more…
Opinion
Best Web Tools for SMBs — Our Picks
Last year, my partners and I started, Advantary, our executive consulting firm. Since we are geographically dispersed (San Francisco, Irvine, Seattle, Ann Arbor, Boston, Hong Kong), we needed to take advantage of software services on the Web to keep us Read more…
Insight
Revenue Modeling for Business Success
Throughout my career, I have joined early-stage companies and have been charged with building the commercial organization and meeting the organization’s revenue objectives. In two very specific cases, the founders had built great products and closed several early customers. They Read more…
Insight
Listen Carefully: How One Startup Found its $9 Billion Idea
The co-founders of one of the companies I helped build launched their firm in an unusual way. They were both software engineers at a respected firm and decided to make the leap into the world of startups. They left their jobs Read more…
Case Study
3-Minute Case Study: GoWall — 10x Market Size Increase
The GoWall Opportunity Bill Kern, CEO of GoWall (website), approached us to help him optimize his fundraising strategy. We started by looking at his corporate strategy. What we found was an opportunity to increase his total addressable market (TAM) by 10x, Read more…
Insight
C-Suite as a Service – A New Model for Entrepreneurs
A businessman/inventor — I’ll call him Ray — recently approached me on LinkedIn, out of the blue, with an idea. A great idea. He had serious domain expertise from decades of operating experience and knew his space cold. He even Read more…
News
Welcome to the Advantary Blog for Growing Companies!
It’s a new year and time for some new things. We’re excited about a number of new things at Advantary this year, and one of them is kicking off this new Advantary Blog — Business Insights for Growing Companies! As Read more…