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Dedicated CEO Mentor:
Build the next stage of your company with a dedicated CEO
Mentor who has successfully built a company valued at (or raised funds) of $100+
million dollars. They will help provide guidance, support and a recommended
structure for achieving your goals based on their unique expertise and shared
experiences. The Mentor will also be available to help brain-storm business ideas
and as a confidant to the CEO Founder.
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Designing Your Strategic Business Plan:
Develop a clearly defined 3-year blueprint on one
page focused on what you are building and what your company will look like
when it achieves its ultimate goal. 96% of startups fail because they build
momentum, but do not have a clearly defined long-term vision.
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Creating a Roadmap to Success with Tactical Plans:
Develop a road map to measure
your monthly progress aligned to your one-year goals utilizing tactical battle plans. This will
ensure that you remain focused and that investors know you have a disciplined
approach to managing your company
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Building Your Company Image:
Learn how to develop networks and access data
bases to identify the best VC’s and funds to invest in your company.
“You have to
act, as if you are, what you want to become”.
Creating your corporate image builds
trust with potential investors. Boardroom clients will also receive selective access to
the Startup Ventures data base consisting of over 38,000 VC and Fund Contacts. The
Mentors and Professors will also utilize their contacts to assist with VC introductions.
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The Investor Pitch Deck:
Learn how to create an optimal Investment Pitch Story. The
slide deck design, the story, defining the uniqueness of your business model and
utilizing tactics to optimize impact will be developed jointly with your Mentor
and Professors. The Mentor will also conduct a rehearsal session to ensure that your
investor pitch story is effectively articulated. Building an investor roadshow can also
be developed to amplify funding visibility.
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Fixed and Virtual Human Capital:
Learn how to design the best structure between
internal human resources and outsourcing expertise. The most effective companies
today carefully nuance the balance between internal staff and leveraging dynamic
labor sources and expertise networks. The company’s ability to rapidly maneuver
and control costs is directly impacted by internal costs. What is needed and what can
be outsourced? How to control external resources? The balance can also optimize
valuation.
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Investor Data Room Guidelines:
Building the Data Room for Investors and a War Room for Business Campaigns
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Optimizing the Board Structure:
How to build an effective Board of Directors?
Defining the optimal size and business rules to leverage board expertise
while protecting control.
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Fundraising Strategies to Protect Equity Levels:
Learn how to release equity for
fundraising through the escalator approach in order to minimize dilution risks.
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The Marketing Game and Amplifying the Brand:
Marketing strategies and customer campaigns. Brand building strategies to optimize your company image.
Media campaign ideas, leveraging conferences, articles and publications.
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Intellectual Property:
Where should you position your IP advantage both
geographically and from a legal perspective. There are different strategies on where
IP is controlled and how licensing agreements can be used to the benefit of the
startup venture.
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Optimizing Local and Global Business Structures:
How to develop your global business
structure for financial impact, tax benefits, and funding grants. Where to build an IP
Center, licensing agreements, JV’s, Strategic Alliances, Regional Headquarters, for
rapid global expansion? Singapore, Ireland, Dubai, BVI, etc. Which is the right
organizational design for your company’s future?