Getting Started
(New Service Providers)

    Are you interested in becoming a service provider?   You can get started in many different phases of business:

• Greenfield startup, without prior organizational support, financed by a venture capitalist or private equity fund based on a business plan.
  

• Existing services provider, where you want to convert to a "managed services provider," with an annuitized revenue stream and mutually agreed long-term services contracts.
  

• Existing multinational that has been a customer of outsourcing, where you want to redesign your business services offerings so that you are seen as a solutions provider or services provider.

    Getting started requires sophistication, planning and organizational details.   At Bierce & Kenerson, we have provided services to all these categories.  We can help in the many different ways to get your operation launched, financed, operational, and generating cash flow through effective planning and contracting.  For a free introductory consultation (that is not legal advice), please feel free to contact us.

Readings:

European Community: A Services Directive at Last- On December 27, 2006, the European Union’s Parliament and Council of the European Union adopted Directive 2006/123/EC on “Services in the Internal Market.”  This pivotal directive represents the culmination of additional year’s negotiations following the failure to adopt a prior services directive on the same subject.  It represents an important step in cross-border flow of services within the European Union.  More importantly, it distinguishes between rights of establishment and rights to provide and receive services across member states.  See www.outsourcing-law.com/1070-Euro_Services_Directive_2006.htm.