Bureau
Operations as a Service. We deal with the ordinary so you can work on the extraordinary.
Our story
We started Bureau to fill the operational gaps that we have seen drastically reduce the chances of launching or raising funds for startups and emerging businesses in which we worked.
While venture capitalists would love nothing more than a pre-seed company with several experienced entrepreneurs, the reality is that most businesses start with some knowledge and little budget to spend on key specialists — read: unsexy areas like tax and regulatory. That leads to two unfortunate outcomes: founders build with blind spots and increased risk, or they settle for less than their original vision.
We want to give founders an alternative to incubators, startup factories, or consultants with no actual experience of building and running a small business — a comprehensive offering that resolves the most commonly overlooked operational areas without parting with a third of your equity or your entire year’s operating budget.
Gandhi said ‘be the change you want to see in the world’: we have been in your shoes, it is rubbish, we are changing it. With us, founders can build bigger.
Our philosophy
We have a strict no-nonsense policy. We deliver value, on time, without bloated bills.
We don’t want you to like and subscribe — we want to give you the freedom to focus on building the next big thing, without having to remember when your VAT return is due or what to do when the build budget runs dry. We are the senior execs who do things instead of creating more work, and the type of partners we wish we had when we created our first businesses.
Our team
Our team is global, with members on three continents, each with at least ten years of experience in their field — though some of us measure experience by remembering working life without the Internet. We are technology advocates: we automate non value-added tasks and use artificial intelligence to increase our capacity, rather than assuming it is either terrible or a replacement for human judgment.
Bureau’s current Chairman is Miguel Neumann, an innovation specialist with 20+ years of experience and multiple exits.
Why dealflow
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