WHAT DOES "UNSTRUCTURED" VENTURES DO?
I focus on helping frame ideas for new ventures and translating business strategies into financial models for emerging and growing companies. Financial models allow you to understand the "bet" behind every decision, and breaking down your business into a financial model is one of the best ways to understand and value the risks and rewards of your decisions.
I work with entrepreneurs and investors in two main ways:
Venture Idea Validation (VIV)
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- Simple, lightweight way for you to understand if your idea for a new venture is worth your time and effort
- Best for entrepreneurs with ideas at early-development, pre-funding stage
- Submit the online questionnaire about the idea and business opportunity, and I complete a one-page assessment of your idea (key "bets", opportunities and risks) and prospects for funding (i.e. bootstrap, angel, venture capital), along with a follow-up phone call to discuss
- Pricing: $350 for VIV
- Deeper evaluations and strategic advice available upon request
- All requests and idea validations are kept private, unless otherwise requested
- Available for later-stage and "turning point strategy decisions" where I have applicable domain expertise or experience; if interested please contact me before completing a VIV questionnaire.
Strategic Financial Modeling (SFM)
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- Highly customized financial models to help you understand your business strategy
- Best for entrepreneurs that want to understand how their business strategy translates into a financial opportunity
- If you are comfortable using and manipulating financial models in Excel, download and use my sample, fully working financial model to create your own model for free
- If you want further help, submit the online questionnaire about your business to see how I can help.
- Pricing: Per hour, available upon request.
- For simpler needs I create a customized one to three sheet model that outlines the customer acquisition process, key assumptions, revenues and costs
- For more complex needs I create a highly customized and detailed model set of financial projections that can be used to raise capital and operate the business
WHY THE NAME "UNSTRUCTURED" VENTURES?
Ideas never come completely formed. They linger in our minds and hearts waiting to be understood, waiting to be put into action. Sometimes we act on our ideas, sometimes we don't.
What keeps us from pursuing our ideas? We all have our own reasons, but far too often it is simply because we have not taken the time to apply the necessary structure to evaluate the idea and make actionable decisions.
That is where I come in. I create the structure to help you develop your unstructured ideas. Ideas are powerful, but true value is only realized through execution.
ABOUT TAYLOR DAVIDSON
- Check out Taylor's Resume.
- Find him on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
- Taylor is also an avid photographer: check out his photography and his other, mostly photography-related blog.
- Want to find out more? Feel free to email or call.
Taylor Davidson, Principal of Unstructured Ventures, has played leading roles in creating financial strategies and business plans for companies since 1998 as an independent consultant and in a variety of roles in startups, venture capital, strategy consulting, product and marketing strategy and private equity.
Taylor has worked with companies and entrepreneurs at a variety of stages. He has helped entrepreneurs take ideas into actionable strategies by creating the tools, business plans and financial models critical to understanding their businesses and developing a strategy for raising the capital needed to fund their businesses. For later-stage companies, he has helped companies refine their plans and prepare for the next level of growth and investment. He has also served as a Chief Financial Officer through the early growth phases.
He has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Economics from the University of Virginia.