SEED Foundation provides business consultancy services to entrepreneurs and prospective entrepreneurs.

Registration for personal consultation: please call Ms Andrea Balassa on +36 1 212-2179 or write to abalassa [at] seed [dot] hu. Ms Terézia Kissné Révai accountancy expert has consulting hours every Monday between 1-5 pm. Staff of the Foundation (Imre Maróczi, Anna Horváth, Zsuzsa Laczkó and Andrea Balassa) is available on any previously fixed date.

• We provide ad hoc consultation on an hourly basis. The hourly fee is 3.125 HUF (2.500 HUF+VAT) for  private persons and NGOSs and 6.250 HUF (5.000 HUF+VAT) for enterprises.
• Preparing financial chapter of business plan including full service consulting  (based on numbers brought by client): 24.000 HUF gross to every client.
• Preparing financial chapter of business plan including full service consulting: 48.000 HUF gross to every client.
• We give support in preparing complete business plans necessary for applications submitted to the Public Employment Service: 48.000 HUF.
• In other cases of tender writing and project consulting we give individual offers or we  calculate with the above hourly fees.

To whom and about what do we give advice?

A significant group of our clients is formed by those who plan to launch an enterprise and expect us to give professional support on that. This is the case when we assess the business idea together, SEED proposes techniques for market research and demand, we talk about how to set the price and encourage everyone to right at least a draft business plan, even if it is not necessary for credit or for tender reasons. The systematic overview of aspects and writing them down significantly increases the enterprises chance to survive and have its operation stabilised. Besides discussing the 'Big Idea', we give information on the viable legal forms of the enterprise, their pros and contras, in addition, on the administrative issues and contributions to public dues.

We help preparing the business plan precondition to the interest free funding - currently worth 2 million HUF - provided by local Employment Centres to promote self-employment. During our consultations Clients are given tasks, they have to make calculations, collect information, write down their own ideas, plans and obtain the necessary documentation. They are continuously supported by us. We add our own experiences, know-how and ideas to the business plan prepared by the Client. The final version of the plan is printed, stitched and handed over ready for submission to our Partner.

Managers and owners already running business also contact us in a large number when issues and problems emerge related to their activity, strategy and they need support in solving them. Experienced colleagues at SEED are ready to give advice in the fields of enterprise management, marketing, finances and funding.

If the problem is more complex, than being able to handle it with a few hours of consultation, we undertake project-based, longer term advisory processes starting with a profound report on the actual situation. We analyse the architecture of the organisation, the competitivity and profitability  of the product line, the composition of the clientele and the effectivity of the production process, sales and marketing. Following that we jointly develop more successful strategies and tactics for the market.

Upon individual demand we are also open to prepare other type of bids than the above mentioned related to local Employment Centres.

In September 2006 we started a non-traditional way of ad hoc consulting able to reach a broader target group than that of Budapest: the online consulting. Please, use our internet forum for prospective businesses and for entrepreneurs already running business, and do not hesitate to ask. This platform is especially adequate for rather simple, not very personal questions and for issues affecting lot of enterprises. You will be answered by our experienced advisors.