Venture Development

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Venture development is direct work: Anabasis builds the company with you. Every engagement is customised to what exists and what is missing. There is no fixed price list, because there is no fixed company.

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§ ICapabilities

Eleven areas of work

  • 01Company formation and structure

    Entity, ownership, governance and the documents a company will be judged by in ten years.

  • 02Business model and strategy

    What the company sells, to whom, at what price, and why that endures.

  • 03Product definition

    The smallest complete thing worth building, and the standard it must hold.

  • 04Technology and engineering

    Architecture, build and the discipline required to maintain what is built.

  • 05Brand and identity

    Name, register, language and design — the way a company presents itself for decades.

  • 06Go-to-market

    Positioning, channels, sales motion and the first repeatable path to revenue.

  • 07Financial architecture

    Unit economics, modelling, reporting and the numbers a founder must know by heart.

  • 08Capital preparation

    Materials, diligence readiness and honest answers to hard questions.

  • 09Operations and systems

    The operating cadence that keeps a company legible to itself.

  • 10Hiring and team design

    Roles defined before they are filled; standards defined before they are tested.

  • 11Governance

    Decision rights, succession and accountability, named before they are needed.

§ IIHow an engagement runs

Enquiry to engagement

  1. 01Enquiry — you describe the company and the work
  2. 02Qualification — we establish whether this is work we should do
  3. 03Discovery — a working conversation about what is actually required
  4. 04Proposal — written scope, sequence and terms
  5. 05Contract and deposit
  6. 06Active engagement, with named owners on both sides