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Strategy Consulting & Investment Advisory Services


TargetSource's consulting practice we will help you assess, plan and implement the most effective corporate strategies for your business.  Within the consulting practice we have select core focus areas including:


  • Clarifying Corporate Strategy & Message: The most fundamental point for examining how to build your business on your own, or with partners such as angel investors, or with Venture capitalists is to have a clear and concise, easily communicated message as to what you do. We have various modes of practice to help you do that.
  • Business Model: We have experience from hundreds of companies worldwide helping them finding right mode of business and business model that suits their product or services as well as capabilities of the corporate team. Sometimes we undertake work to help the company owners build a team better aligned to their business goals.
  • Investment Advisory: We are typically hired 6-9 months prior to aimed financing round when we undertake making the company so called investment ready. We often stay as advisory board members or in the board of directors at owners’request.

Leading Team:

 
Mikko Puhakka: Mikko is founder of Holtron Ventures which was the first investor in MySQL (2001), exited to SUN for USD 1 billion in 2008 and is considered the best venture funds to come out of Finland. He has been an Open Source researcher at Helsinki University of Technology since 2004. A well-known thought leader in Open Source, he has given speeches and organized network events in China, Europe, Africa and USA. Currently he also serves as an advisor of Open Source and Venture Capital companies in Europe, USA and China.
 
Stephen R. Walli: Stephen is an consultant of open source strategy . He was vice president of open source development strategy at Optaros, Inc. He worked for Microsoft for 5 years after the acquisition of Softway Systems, Inc, the makers of Interix which lives on in the Services for UNIX product. While at Microsoft, he continued to work on Interix, then joined the Rotor team, and finally worked as part of the business development team exploring how Microsoft could best develop open source communities.