The Ultimate Plan
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Your Ultimate Plan Will Be Unique and Perfectly Suited to a Pinnacle of Venture Success.
Can the frozen wastes of hyper-competitive flotsam and jetsam be turned into a productive vision by the leaders of YOUR venture?
Since we assume you agree with that pre-requisite, the challenge is to convey this future vision to investors and customers who see only present reality. Some call this “selling air” and some call this “selling the future” and in either case it is either the ultimate critical path to success, or the ultimate bog of failure. How the audience visualizes and absorbs and internalizes YOUR vision is everything.
THIS VISION:
CAN BECOME THIS VISION:
Is the vision thing overrated? Hardly. It is underplayed and mis-played most of the time. It is of course a personal vision shared with a team and all the other potential resources that need to be pulled into the vision.
How do you do that in a Plan?
Landscapes are not visionary, but visions are capitalist landscapes. Even non-profits are capitalist landscapes, since growth and doing good require capitalist sustainability to survive, they all still run on money and resources, however obtained.
A visionary business plan such as our Ultimate Plan paints a vision that can be absorbed from the idea and the way the Plan is presented, necessarily independent of the personality of the presenter who cannot always be there to impose a vibrant personality. The vibrancy of the vision must be effectively mirrored in the Plan.
The key is the industry or idea Landscape, and the Roadmap described by the Plan for that landscape.
Give a person a detailed map and a way to get to an objective, and the person will believe it and follow it. Think Christopher Columbus and the Piri Reis map of the world which he surely had seen or had in his possession.
Our definition of visionary disagrees with many dictionary definitions, which paint a visionary is one who exists in unreality and cannot bring the visions to real fruition. We do not believe such incapable visionaries exist to any great extent, though there are many who dream well beyond what is immediately possible. As Star Trek showed us, every visionary invention used on the set pf the show is becoming real technology today. We believe the most effective ventures and business plans must reflect a certain level of future vision, and specifically one that creates a much better future scenario than any other plan in its category.
To most directly and strongly show a business vision, we favor excellent charts which we call Power Charts, a few examples of which can be seen on the web page with that name, but many more of which exist. A venture plan in our view must have a set of compelling financial and market charts to convey the vision, preferably a chart created to show how markets will be captured.
TechVest also has a sister publication online called www.techvesteconometrics.com which specializes in charts and illustrations.
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Successful Business Plans:
As investment fund managers and venture operating team members, TechVest Principals have reviewed more than 6000 Business Plans and advised more than 100 Ventures and Venture Capital Funds, notably the following:
Investment Banking & Venture Capital Management
- Confluence Ventures TX - Water Investment Pool - partnership
- Parakletos Ventures CA - $10m Fund – investor and diligence analyst
- Santa Clara Ventures CA - $20m Fund – advisor and diligence analyst
- Schroder Ventures CA - $58m Fund – partner, investor, diligence manager
Bio- and Medical Ventures
- Circon Arthroscopy CA - mezzanine investor and diligence, IPO, $3m and diligence
- Family Health Network - $6m partner funding round in preparation
- Mycogen Plant Genetics CA – first round VC investor and Board, IPO - $2m equity and $3m partnership
- Pilot Nutraceuticals NC – advisor - $3m funding and diligence
- ProCyte Wound Healing WA – Board first round VC lead investor, IPO - $2m and diligence
- Raytel Medical Imaging CA – Board, first round VC investor - $2m and diligence
- Telios Wound Healing CA – advisor and due diligence
- Ultrafine Nano-Materials NC – advisor/diligence, interim CEO
- Wellcare Wellness Software NC - founder and architect, seed funding
Telecommunications Ventures
- Advanced Compression Tech CA – advisor/diligence - $2m invested
- Applied Optoelectronics CA – advisor/diligence - $3m invested
- BR Communications CA – investor/diligence - $3m raised
- Desktone, Inc. Virtual Desktops – CFO, first 4 execs, $17mm raised
- Eon Network Management CA – investor/diligence - $1m invested
- Innovacom MPEG2 Video CA – EVP, chief planner - $10m raised
- Phylon Communications CA – Board advisor - $2m invested
- ROLM Communications Corp CA – treasury mgr, budget director - $11m raised
- Silicon Recognition CA/France – advisor/diligence - $6m sought
- Steeplechase Broadband Channel –startup CFO, fund raising advisor
- Stratacom ATM Networks CA (now Cisco) – stage 0 investor, Board advisor - $1m
- Telebit Communications CA – Board investor - $2m invested
- XCI-Fluoroware RF Communications CA – Board investor - $1.5 m invested
Software and other Entrepreneurial Ventures
- ARIO Storage Networks CA - $10mm funding project and diligence
- APEX Analytix Software NC – sales acceleration and $6m project
- Avaterra Virtual Worlds CA – COO-CFO - public-listing buyout - $5.6m raised, IPO
- Borland Applications Software CA – communication software division mgr
- BusLogic SCSI CA – advisor/planner - $1m raised
- ColdStorData Archiving MA - CFO - $200k raised
- Furndex b2B NC – Board/Founder - $4.5m raised
- Global VR Entertainment – advisor, $5m funding advisory
- Imagen Laser Printing CA – lead investor/diligence - $2m raised
- IntelliSeek Metasearch OH – advisor/investor/diligence – angel capital raised
- Internolix e-Commerce Germany - President - $4mm USA, $85m Germany
- Lacrosse Entertainment Gaming Technology - business planning, start-up funding in progress
- Modular Architecture Database Systems CA – EVP biz dev - $17m partnership raised in Japan
- Micro-MRP Manufacturing Software CA – biz dev advisor
- Neuro-Fission Intuitor Predictive Analytics NC - Strategic Advisory Board
- Portfolio Workgroup Technologies CA – CFO - $4m raised
- Resilience Security Appliances CA – CFO - $10m raised
Other Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Advanced Water Treatment Solutions - re-structuring, diligence, CFO - fund raising in progress
- ePAC Print Automation CA – diligence, business plan, $12m round raised
- Garments Dryclean Tellers – diligence, co-Founder, CFO - $1m raised
- ideamille Social Idea Network - co-Founder, regional entrepreneurial idea team building, coordination
- Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship - entrepreneurial advisory services - 65 companies
- XelAqua - co-Founder, water cleansing technology for fracking and remediation - re-star
International Expansion Implementation
- EPIC Electric Motors and Generators – fund raising advisor
- Fiberstars Lighting CA – created first European Distribution channels
- LSI Logic CA – established European Finance Center - $7m raised, diligence
- Raychem Components & Materials CA – established European Finance Center
- Remington Sports NC – VP Sales $425m, established Switzerland Finance Center
- Trinity Consulting – established multi-client Germany & France Distribution Networks