Butterflies

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So, you have an idea.

After years of dreaming, you’ve created a new snack, salsa or spread. You’re really jazzed about your new idea (congrats!). Your mother / best friend / spouse / sister pleads you to sell it at the local grocery store and insists you’ll become a millionaire if you do. You’ve clicked through Google a few hundred times and have decided that your idea is unique and special. You ditch the day job, spend sleepless nights in the kitchen perfecting your mouth-watering treat, and build some office space in your garage. Congratulations, entrepreneur!

Your job is crystal clear.

From the outset, your job is to convince hundreds, then thousands of people to try your product, fall in love, and tell someone else to try it. Without “trial & repeat” your business won’t survive. But you know that. And that’s why you’re sharply focused on selling. All of the time.

If only it ended there.

When not wowing folks with your out-of-this-world creation, you quickly realize how much time it takes to manage a business. There are materials to source, manufacturers to contract, trucks to schedule, invoices to send, bills to pay, deductions to unravel, payroll to process, taxes to file, crises to manage, spam mails to delete. You quickly realize that all this stuff takes you away from the kitchen, from future customers, and from potential investors. Not where you want to be.

That’s where we come in.

5M Foods offers sound, experienced advice and business management services dedicated to helping food startups grow wisely by organizing your business and building simple repeatable processes early in your company’s life. We’ll guide you through all the steps necessary to establish a well-run business – the kind of business investors want to see. We’ll take the lead on building back office processes, keeping your finances in order and your inventory moving. We’ll tinker away behind the scenes so you can be on center stage. We know how to do this, because we’ve been there, done that.

We’ll help you manage your bank, not break it.

We like to keep things simple, and work entirely on a monthly fee! No hourly billing. No upcharges. No surprises. We’ll sit down with you, discuss your needs, and agree on a reasonable fee for the scope of work. A couple touch points a week to keep us all pointed in the same direction, and you’re back in the kitchen or out promoting your masterpiece while we pay the bills and manage your product inventory. Sounds interesting? Let’s talk.