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Business plans

Many of Zebulon Solutions’ customers, especially in the clean-tech sector, are startups and other companies who periodically need to raise capital, either via an equity offering or debt or a combination of the two.

We can provide the financial analysis as well as support for the high level business plan generation.

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Risk analysis

Risk needs to be factored into all business decisions, but is often ignored.

Risk can be modeled into an ROI or IRR calculation using an expected value methodology.

Common risks which are often not fully considered include:

· Warranty

· IPR indemnification

· Product liability

· Supply chain disruption

Why do business analysis?

Business analysis is necessary to validate or disprove business hypotheses. Business analysis is much more than building big, complex spreadsheets, although we are highly skilled at that too. In many cases, the analysis we do is directly tied to other aspects of productization: for example, modeling cash flow based on alternate inventory scenarios or calculating the IRR (see below) for moving a portion of the supply chain to a different region. In other cases we help key clients with the business cases and / or business plans they need to secure funding, grants or key customer commitments.

ROI analysis

All business decisions should be made based on Return on Investment (ROI) analysis.

In particular, Internal Rate of Return (IRR) is a very effective tool for looking at the return  on a series of investments and the resulting cash flows.

Cash flow

Cash is king for all businesses, small and large. While most executives and business owners  understand their P&Ls, many do not understand fully where their cash goes.

Common cash hogs are inventory and accounts receivable.

Businesses that are growing quickly can be very profitable yet have negative cash flows.

Business Analysis

Zebulon Solutions offers detailed business analysis