BUSINESS START-UP & RELOCATION

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BUSINESS START-UP:

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Starting a new business can seem overwhelming and comes with a vast number of steps. These steps are not only important, but essential for your business’s legal existence and company’s growth and development. As an investor and entrepreneur, many of these necessary requirements can be distracting, even paralyzing, and cause inertia. EPICA consultants are unique, they understand the challenges and opportunities your business is to face. It is your business, and we are here to help as much as is needed, to ensure company success.

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EPICA consultants offer unique expertise that blends diverse entrepreneurial experience, real business insight and practical solutions.

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Through our experienced consultants who understand the isolated tasks necessary, a you can rely on a EPICA professional to manage the critical steps in the early stages, that allows you to focus on other items that need attention. The tasks necessary to get a business established are big obstacles, but our consultants will make them look small. 3 key areas EPICA will help you with, are:

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• Strategy and Planning

• Business Structure Development

• Key Relationship Selection

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Strategy and Planning

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We help you through analysis, statistics, and strategy. You will partner with experienced consultants to plan critical steps for your startup business. We will help you start off on the right foot by helping you incorporate the entity that is right for you, (ie sole proprietor, corporation, LLC), and helping understand the pros and cons of it; obtaining the relevant licenses and certificates etc. They will also help you set up with any other necessary accounts, (such as banking, website etc).

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Business Structure Development

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Start-Ups have to execute multiple items simultaneously. EPICA Consultants can help assist you execute major critical steps, especially significant in the early stages of the business. Our consultants can fulfill various roles and tasks that are business critical, which will give you more time and opportunity to focus on enjoying building your business.

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Key Relationship Selection

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Businesses benefit from relationships, nay, it is essential for businesses to have relationships; none more than for start-ups. These relationships are key, especially in the early stages. EPICA consultants will support you to identify, evaluate and implement the right relationships; whether they be vendors, business partners or channel partners, you can be assured that we help you establish and build those key relationships that will execute those critical elements of starting a business.

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START-UP CONSULTING BENEFITS:

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Clients, who work with consultants, understand much better the early stages of forming a business and venture. Clients gain faster expertise, which gives them an advantage in getting to the next phase quicker. In many cases, consultants help clients avoid costly mistakes and wasted time.

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EPICA guides client’s through the startup process enabling them to focus on their long-term business vision and goals. Clients rely on consultants to help them manage areas of responsibilities such as:

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• Mentored Startups

• Validate Business Model

• Managed Vendors

• Guided Beginning

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Mentored Startups

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Mentored startups grow 3.5x faster and raise 7x more money in comparison. Entrepreneurs and startups are constantly pulled in many directions. Business success can be amplified with the support of the right business startup consultant who helps the client focus and invest time wisely.

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Validate Business Model

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Validating a business idea takes time and requires research. Business concepts differentiate a startup from the competition. Ideas, even if they seem unique, require several rounds of customer interviews and product iterations before they become products people love, use and recommend.

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Managed Vendors

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Business startup ventures can experience devastating results due to bad vendors and contracting out services. Startup consulting services support clients with quality vendors and services providers. This ensures better results and much higher quality work.

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Guided Beginning

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Guidance and mentoring through consulting services extremely accelerates startups. It supports the early stages and adds certainty, experience, and skills to the startup business, otherwise not within reach of startup companies.

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RELOCATION SERVICE:

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Are you a Start-Up? Are you an overseas investor looking to establish a new location for your existing organization or to start up a new business? Are you looking to relocate members of your work force, domestically or internationally? EPICA has the on-the-ground international relocation services you need.

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• Departure

• Destination

• Visa & Immigration

• Employee Counseling

• VIP Moves

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Departure Service

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EPICA’s Departure Service is designed to support relocating employees. It will assist relocating employees and their families in making the necessary arrangements to depart their home location efficiently and effectively.

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Key elements of the program include:

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• Assistance in property vacating procedures.

• Negotiate the return of the security deposit (after a property condition inspection has been conducted).

• Assisting assignees in avoiding any potential legal claims over property conditions.

• Utility and telecommunication disconnection.

• Cancellation of school’s placements and retrieval of any deposits.

• Rental vehicle return (where necessary).

• Re-direction of mail (where available).

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*Not all departure program services are available in all countries.

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Destination

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Moving is one of the most stressful events in life, especially if it entails moving internationally. EPICA consultants not only make the process much easier, but they also understand the mental and emotional strain it puts on you, your employees and their families. Epica help with the following:

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• Home Finding Service

• Family Service

• Area Orientation

• Global Visa Services

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Home Finding Service

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Calling on the expertise of our local Destination Support networks, EPICA Consultants coordinate the home search placement. Our consultants also coordinate pertinent information regarding the relocating employee’s move, housing requirements, allowances, and other pertinent information. Consultants arrange assistance to the employee and accompanying family in finding a home in their new location that is customized to their needs, budget and company’s policy. They will also assist with lease negotiation, rental deposits, and can facilitate the home-buying process if desired.

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Family Service

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EPICA offers to assist the relocating of employee’s partner or spouse and family, with personalized professional support to help them understand and successfully adapt to their new professional and home environment. We offer a range of services for the employee's partner, ranging from job search assistance to language training, as defined by the company.

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Area Orientation

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The employee's Relocation Consultant will tailor an area orientation of the host location so that it aligns with the employee’s needs and budget. An EPICA consultant will provide information on necessary local communities, housing options, schools, the employee’s new office(s) and more as needed.

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Global Visa Services

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EPICA consultants are here to facilitate your employees’ global visa service needs, wherever business takes them. Take advantage of our expertise and global network to help employees maintain compliance with local immigration regulations. Our consultants will keep you informed of any changing requirements for legal work authorization documents, permits, visas, business visas for assignees and their families, and more. Consult with EPICA on common visa options, processes, documents, and data requirements.

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