Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
VP of Logistics? Executive Officer Of Planning and Projects? And if you are concerned that one person can do it all there is the possibility to hire one as the senior exec with a secondary as junior exec.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
After looking over your site I think the answer might be staring you in the face. You have a ton of people and businesses on your site that can be monetized 100 different ways beyond selling ad space. Just to name a few off the top of my head. 1. Run a webinar selling a high ticket program for all the freebie, individual and job seekers - net $20k + 2. Contact business accounts and offer added incentives if they purchase a lifetime account - net $50k + Get a massive cash fuel influx within a week. I can help you set all this up from strategies, logistics to fruition. I'm very excited to help you. Call me so we can get working on this together and make a reality by next week.
7 years experienced Technical Expert for computers
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Intellectual Property
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CEO/CTO, SaaS Marketing, Business and R&D
The questions seem quite open. Usually funds and serious institutions place description of the required fields, or at least underlined examples of what they expect. You have answered the questions above, although I suggest structuring it and revising it. Have someone within the details of the business look at. E.g. your platform is currently operating. Not even sure what operating is. It can be operating on your computer at home. It can be deployed on a cloud infrastructure and used by thousands/millions. Built out is not really a term I would use. What is 'the technology", what part it is from the platform. Write it in a way, so the person on the other side doesn't ask those questions, and understands where you are. Further: in the ownership of IP you mention patents. If you really have it, you should also list in in IP protection part. Number 4 is again a little bit open, but what they mean is an obligation of any kind. Starting from loans, any type of obligating contracts with 3rd parties, employees or others. E.g. a contract that states: I will help you raise this fund, and when you do, you will give me 50%. Number 5 most likely refers to how do you plan to expand your IP (not only the protected one). Build more features to your software, add more products. Hope this helps.
Coaching you along your entrepreneurial journey
What tactics have you already tried? Is there a way to co-create some new expectations going forward? For example, are each of your roles and responsibilities outlined in writing? Would your partner be open to creating a new partnership agreement around agreed upon roles and responsibilities? Perhaps a facilitation of this conversation between the two of you would help. A business coach could serve as a neutral third party and help you find a mutually beneficial solution.
International Tax Attorney and U.S. CPA
A new C corporation formed within the U.S. must file a federal income tax return (Form 1120) on an annual basis. The corporation may have to file a state corporate income tax return depending upon the state of incorporation and from which state the corporation operates. Income tax filings are generally required even if the corporation has no revenue, expenses or net income. If your corporation has no revenue for the first year, but it has operating expenses, the corporation is likely in a net operating loss position. You will want to file a tax return in order to preserve these losses and carry forward the losses to future tax years in order to offset future taxable income.
Strategic Partnerships
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M&A, Raising Capital, Strategic Advisory
Hi - so happy to hear your company is growing so well in a very advanced field. From my experience please consider the following. (I can email you additional things but here are key concepts) 1. Intellectual Property Is your "old" IP properly protected as you enter the JV? Now what happens to the new IP, is it shared? 2. Brand Do you maintain control of your brand in the JV? What is the branding of the new JV? 3. Scope of Work You must always have a proper scope of work defined in a JV, otherwise it opens up possible issues for you and the other party when one party deviates 4. Dissolution of JV How do you get out of a JV if you want to? Is it automatic triggers, is there an exit clause? Hope this helps!
Fractional CTO
I build API systems daily for myself + clients. Also other on-demand non-API systems. To provide you an answer requires a starting point + gathering a good bit of context. Best if you book calls with me + other people who build this type of software daily. Tip: Here's how I approach this for myself + clients. Whatever code I develop, evolves through stages, which self fund the project. In other words, every month of development must produce income the next month greater than last month's dev cost. So if month one's estimate is $10K of dev work, this work only starts when there's a clear path to the $10K of work generating $20K of income next month. My suggestion. If you can't come up with a clear plan to have income grow fast enough to immediately cover all development cost, get a new idea. Hint: Most projects I do for myself + clients at this point use a pre sale model. So, someone (client, myself, many people) market the product at a discount for a small number of users to be in the alpha + beta stages of release. Sometimes this can generate... well... substantial income... This also gives a massive window of debugging, where development + debugging costs are covered. Think of this as a Kickstarter project where money comes in, sometimes for many months or a year at a discount. So if your service will run $100/month, pre sell a $1200 package for 2-3 years, rather than the normal year of coverage. To do this you must be clear with participants... 1) There will be problems to wring out of code. 2) You must be clear you can code some sort of product in a few weeks, to provide some sort of deliverable. 3) Don't spend all the money, so you can do instant refunds for participants who loose patience with alpha/beta code quality. This approach works super well.
Sales Strategist
The starting point is always getting clear about the problem. What does you new word press product actually do and what problem does it solve for people? I am an online sales strategist so can help set up your email marketing, build the strategy and help you source the best people to get it done. Happy to have a chat and better understand if I can help you.
Sales Strategist
There are two things can highly impact more clients signing up. 1. Marketing - One of the reason why people don't buy what you are selling is because they dont know you exist. You can do cross selling and upselling - So for example if you are in helping one country back offices, can you do offer to your clients the service internationally. Also are there key events where REO Agents hang out, what do they read. 2. Sales - When you meet a client (phone/person) are you able to close the client, or are you having a low conversion rate. If this is the case, then ways to improve, is improving your offer, improving how to enhance your social proof. Happy to jump on a call and to help you assess where you are at.
Real Estate Development and Preservation Activist
The funding of a non-profit can be a bit more complicated than banging on the doors of a bank. First, you will need to set up the corporation, next file for non-profit status with the IRS (1023), and lastly receive tax-exempt status from your state of incorporation. At the point of submission to IRS, you have a window of roughly 2 years to fundraise while you receive your approvals. However, many foundations will not fund you during that time. That leaves you to grass roots funding. Your success will be based on a solid business plan, and a board that is experienced in oversight. Focus on the income and expenses when you write your business plan. Good luck in your endeavor, you may find the reward in helping people gets overshadowed by the daunting task of running the company. Keep your mission statement handy!
Angel Investment, Venture Capital, Idea Validation
The site seems to be good. Let's discuss more over a call.
Strategic thinker and communicator, author
Hi: The US Patent and Trademark Office has some great resources, including solid search functionality which lives at: https://www.uspto.gov/trademarks-application-process/search-trademark-database Kerby
Tech startups and entrepreneurship
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I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, in my opinion no, you should test first the device in your local saloon. After you improve the product, and after you are satisfied with the product is working, the next step would be branding and marketing. Before you come to market then you should fill for the patent. Kind regards Kruno.
Product Development
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Expert on Leading New Ventures in Sports Marketing
Fanatics has the umbrella apparel license with both NFL and NBA. For non-apparel, the NBA entertains new concepts all the time (I used to run business operations for the licensing group in the 90s). However, you will need to show distribution and required to pay a minimum if you were to pursue a non-apparel license for your own company. There are dozens of long time "hard goods" licensees and they may be interested in working with you. Licenses are granted for specific products (known as "rights management") I can point you in the right direction but need to know more.
I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, my name is Kruno, I was senior software Architect on a couple of projects all around the world. For what I got from your video it is obvious that it will be some kind of client-server architecture. My suggestion for the client side is Spring Boot + MongoDB + AngularJS (for building admin panel). If you wish to include a mobile app, a suggestion is Ionic 3 (https://ionicframework.com/docs/). I hope that I helped, let's talk for more...
I'm IT professional with 17+ years in business.
Hi, my name is Kruno. I have one SaaS application from which you can sell your services. I have investigated a couple of years ago some pricing models and my conclusion was that the only thing that can get us more money is to scale our business (get more customers which will do microtransactions over our platform). kind regards, Kruno
Creative/analytical/strategic. CEO coach
Was this covered in the letter of intent? If this is the first draft, it should be able to be negotiated, but realize that the valuation should change, based on a reduction of assets included in the sale. Be prepared to extend the negotiation period by possibly quite a bit of time, or a rejection. This is why it is so important to review all aspects in detail early in the discussions. Good luck. Do you have a good business lawyer on your team? The accountant is good for financial review, but a lawyer is needed to protect your interests.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
You have to create a different message for different markets. Let's think about Sears marketing for a moment.... For the ladies - See the softer side of Sears For the men - lifetime warranty for Craftsmen Tools. Many companies can market to multiple areas. The one main difference is they are creating selling points, slogans and strategies for each market. There isn't a "One Size Fits All" option when marketing to different target audiences. I'd love to help you. Give me a call and to set up different messages and marketing strategies for your two target audiences.
Clarity Expert
Let us start at the heart of all start up ideas, what is there a need for that is not currently being supplied or that has not been fully realized upon. When you find a niche that you can supply a demand for that no one else is supplying or that no one can supply in high demand you have found your money maker. A lot of people become successful with startups no one ever thought they would need in life. The hardest part about a startup is not the idea, the funding or finding the niche. The hardest part of a startup is getting the advertising out there and picking up interest. That's the difference between Nikola Tesla and Benjamin Franklin. Once you have found your niche bring it to the market in a revolutionary way that will catch investors eyes. Only then will you garner the respect of your peers.
Planning and advising in production of the goods.
Dear, As I working in production industry, technology development give me some indications that in new world of work we will faced with these following terms on the working places: 1 .The impact of technology on the old ageing workforce. Them should need to be flexible in learning and education on how to ensured that digital transformation delivers social and environmental benefits. 2.Digital skills training of workforce. Development of digital skills on the employee will help him to create many new opportunities for innovative products and services. 3. Using online data to tackle social issues. With new business models and practices are emerging that place fair handling of data and sharing of value arising from that data at the heart of their value proposition. 4. Increasing levels of transparency. Digital technology should to enable greater transparency across value chain, encouraging all players to adopt best practices. 5. Building trust with consumers and wider stakeholders. These complex relationships can make it difficult in bussiness, so responsible should use data innovatively to build trust by using it to tackle social and environmental issues along with their bottom line. If you have any doubts or unclear things, I will be on your disposal. Kind Regard, Haris
Artificial Intelligence
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Value adding advice built on analysis.
1. Start by focusing on the business problem, you want to solve, and how you want to implement the solution. 2. Don't be scared by the buzzwords (i.e. "If you don't use AI, you will be out of business in five years). Sometimes a standard report is fine. 3. Although you should start small by solving existing pains, be curious, and understand the potential for large scale solutions. Understand enough of the technology, that you understand the scale and type of problems that can be solved. But don't do this until you are done with 1. and 2. Good question and good luck with it! If you are interested in further dialogue, feel free to schedule a call. Best regards Kenneth Wolstrup
Clarity Expert
One of the most innovative uses of AI that I've come across recently is using it to analyze sales calls. They're able to break down conversations into digestible/searchable topics. From here, they analyze what phrases and topics lead to/away from conversions.
Confidence Coach, Certified Hypnotist
Let's think about this for a moment, toaster ovens haven't been a common household appliance since the invention of the microwave. Although they are still found in the homes of the "I wanna be a gourmet chef at home" crowd which is a very lucrative niche'. Instead of limiting yourself to only toaster ovens, let's crack the door just a little wider to reviews of Gourmet Gizmos. You can bust wide open into a very small niche' of people looking to purchase high end quality kitchen appliances for crafting home cooked cuisine. This has 3 very distinct advantages for your success. 1.. This niche' of unique buyers have money they are willing to spend for quality products that are difficult to find elsewhere. 2. They make repeat purchases. Today they need a toaster oven and next week they want a cappucino machine. Since they have already bought from you once they know to where to come back for their next unique, hard to find item. 3. You have multiple items to sell without competing competition from Lowe's, Home Depot or Maytag. This advice is coming from a mom/marketer that knows her way around a kitchen. I'm happy to help you lay out strategies and devise a marketing plan for exposure and sells. Give me a call. Thanks, Delilah
I help you buy, sell, plan, value a business
Yup, check out mine. I get calls every month. Dave www.DavidCBarnett.com