PrintingSolutions.com is being designed as a global Internet printing services/print shop who is focused on reducing the overall printing price structure, in addition to enabling business-to-business transactions for printing presses and the graphic art design industry. PrintingSolutions.com will also attain a competitive edge by offering services such as website development and e-commerce, which have become essential for any business presence.
PrintingSolutions.com intends to establish and operate an Internet print shop with services costing significantly less than the prices of its competitors, while supplying superior quality. Printing Solutions will offer graphic services and its website to help start-ups as well as established businesses reduce their printing costs and e-commerce costs.
Highlights of PrintingSolutions.com
Breakthrough services. PrintingSolutions.com will develop a unique website that provides customers various ways to create business stationery, including business cards, envelopes, notepads, and door hangers. A graphic design center will be available to customers, allowing them to create company logos as well as other designs necessary to the company’s identity.
Trademarks. The company plans to register a corporation under the name of PrintingSolutions.com and operate under the same name.
Large markets. Recent studies by Forrester Research Inc. reveal that business-to-business (B2B) commerce will total $2.7 trillion in revenue by Year 5. The data indicate that 53% (or more) of all online business transactions will be made through emarketplaces.
Qualified and experienced management.
Customers. This company will primarily target start-up and small businesses across the country. The company will also work with large companies to make deals.
The biggest competitive threat for PrintingSolutions.com will come from iPrint.com. However, we will have a competitive disadvantage over iPrint.com because we offer lower prices on all our products and services. Customers in this industry are sensitive to both quality and price, and at PrintingSolutions.com they will benefit from both offerings.
PrintingSolutions.com has a world-class management team with direct knowledge of the industry, extensive research experience, and unique administration skills. Mr. Dalton Grant leads the team.
The company projects that during the second half of Year 1 it will generate revenues of $250,000. It projects revenues of $2.91 million for Year 2 & $5.82 million for Year 3. PrintingSolutions.com is seeking $830,000 in venture capital to be used for:
Establishing an office and organization presence in the United States and abroad.
Complete development of the Internet printing shop.
Promotion of the website and its products and services.
1.1 Mission
The mission of PrintingSolutions.com is to become a global company, utilizing the power of the Internet to become the market leader in providing online printing, website designs, graphic art designs, and a B2B portal for the untapped printing press and graphic art design industries. This will be achieved by combining high-quality craftsmanship with low costs.
Frank Williams, the owner and operator of One Week At A Time website business in Lexington Kentucky, is responsible for its operation. The website’s goal is to educate people about how they can help the Earth, and reduce their environmental impact. Each week, one task will be completed. This lasts 52 weeks. The tasks are simple and will show people how easily they can make small changes in their life to make a difference in their world. This website will earn revenue through commissions from the sale of Earth-friendly items that match our weekly tips. These products will be offered by affiliates. We won’t be manufacturing them nor carrying inventory. Instead, we will earn commission on each sale.
Our financial strategy is focused on being profitable while keeping our expenses very low. We will use the profits to help environmental causes that we believe strongly in. We are more concerned about keeping cash flow positive and cash balance positive. Our financial plans are highlighted in the accompanying chart.
These keys will help us achieve our goals:
We must develop quality content in the form of our tips which engage the readers, empower them, and inspire them to share the tips with others, and so, grow our user base.
Because we are not going to spend money on marketing, but maximizing our online exposure, it is important that we execute our plans well.
We must keep our expenses low. We don’t have a long-term goal of generating large revenues, so it is important to control our expenses.
Pre-selling product recommendations is necessary in order to encourage users to buy from our site and earn our commissions.
1.1 Mission
One Week At A Time is a website dedicated to teaching busy people how they can make a difference for the environment. This site teaches them simple weekly tasks that can be done over the course of a year. We want to make people more conscious about the environment, to encourage retailers to sell Earth-friendly products and to use our commissions for our expenses and to contribute to environmental causes.
1.2 Objectives
You can teach people simple weekly tasks that will help them to protect the environment and lower their personal environmental impact.
Register 5,000 subscribers for our weekly environmental tips newsletter at the end the first year.
Our website receives 10,000 visitors per month.
To achieve profitability in six month.
To contribute all company profits to environmental organizations and causes
1.3 Keys to Success
Quality Content Provide good weekly tips that are simple to read, easy to understand, and incite people to complete their weekly tasks.
Marketing:Increase link-building, search engine optimisation, word of mouth and word of hand to spread the word on our website and email tips.
Expenses To make it easier to reach profitability, keep your other expenses as low as possible. You don’t need to spend a lot to achieve your goals faster.
Promote and presell Earth-friendly products. This will encourage our users to use our site’’s links to make purchases so we earn our commissions.
Staryoo.com will be a revolutionary platform that provides a Web-based trading system for Chinese securities investors and institutions. Staryoo.com is going to revolutionize the way that millions of Chinese investors invest in China. Particular to Staryoo.com will be investment features that have recently not been available to the investor in China, including, real-time stock price quotes, technical and fundamental analysis, expert commentary on market action and recommendations, investment forums and chat rooms, online bank transfers, remote pager notification, and educational material including books and tapes. The platform’s intelligent interface can be customized to fit your level of investment experience and profile.
With both the development of the Chinese national super highway project and China’s imminent membership into the World Trade Organization (WTO), Internet use and Internet investing will grow very rapidly. A report by China Internet Information Center shows that China had 4.5 million Internet users as of June 1999. This is twice the 1998 estimate, and it is expected to rise to 20 millions by 2000. 40 million of the 45 million Chinese investors are individual investors. It is anticipated that as foreign equities markets (in particular the U.S. markets) are made available to the individual investor, their trading volume will increase enormously. Mr. Pen Reng, Vice President for Shanghai Securities Co., LTD., the second largest brokerage in China, it is estimated that the number of individual investors in China will increase to 250 million by 2005. Staryoo.com anticipated this trend, and will be the first company to offer international trading support.
In recent years, the U.S. equity market has seen a dramatic increase in trading volume. The combination of historic market heights and the increase in NASDAQ issuers has contributed to the significant rise in daily trading volume. At the same time, technology has advanced to the point where more investors are trading online. This has led to an entirely new set of self-reliant value-oriented investors who are more comfortable with electronic commerce. We expect these same trends to continue in China, and we will be well placed to profit from the large market opportunity for cheaper, faster, more reliable and less costly trading systems.
Staryoo.com has a Sunnyvale, CA, office and is based out of Shanghai, China. Starmile Systems Engineering Co. LTD. (Starmile), has provided technical support and initial seed capital. It is located in Shuzhou. China. Staryoo.com was established in the United States to serve two purposes. First, it will facilitate the transfer from the Chinese equities marketplace to one which allows access to U.S. equity markets. Second, Staryoo.com must be able to rapidly and efficiently go public in the U.S. to market and develop this trading platform. For the purposes of the following objectives, additional funding may be required in the fourth quarter (Q4).
1.1 Objectives
Alpha and Beta testing of Web platform, January 15, Year 1, and May 15, Years 1, respectively with strategic partners from China
For the initial deployment of trading platform, complete negotiations with two major brokerage firms by June 1, Year 1.
Receive your first round funding by June of Year 1.
Staryoo.com available for individual investors beginning June 1, Year 1 (without online trading).
Staryoo.com available for online trading beginning September 15, Year 1.
Staryoo.com has U.S. Equities Markets available in China in Q2 Year 2*.
At year’s end, generate revenues of $300,000.
Register 18,000 members, 14 brokerages and more by Q4 Year 1.
Staryoo.com is now available as a trading site in the U.S. during Q3 Year 3.
Staryoo.com U.S. private company by Q4-Year 3.
* * Q4-year WTO membership anticipated by 8211
1.2 Mission
Staryoo.com is committed to providing investors with the most complete Web-based trading platform. We will continue to improve this trading platform through listening to our customers and adapting our product range to meet their needs. Staryoo.com is dedicated to providing exceptional customer service that will earn investor trust and confidence.
As we strive for first class image, quality, service and fair profit, both investors and employees will see first-class results. Staryoo.com understands that employees are our most valuable resource. Staryoo.com will reward and nurture its employees as the company reaches milestones and develops technologies.
1.3 Keys to Success
To succeed in this business we must:
Staryoo.com’s Web-based trading platform is unique among all others. It offers investors more functionality and features that are required for advanced Internet trading.
Staryoo.com ensures 100% customer satisfaction. Staryoo.com offers order transmission and customer support to ensure consistent and repeat usage.
Leverage Starmile’s technical expertise and client base to ensure that a wide range of customers are informed about Staryoo.com’s equities trading platform and the advantages of using this platform.
1.4 Strategic Advantage
Staryoo.com will have a competitive advantage over competing Web-based trading platform providers due to the following strategic reasons:
Starmile is an expert in technology fields such as bank information processing and account inquires.
Starmile has developed a payment-cryptography system that is ISO9002 and National Cryptography Administration Committee certified.
Starmile has developed an internet-based, non-Web-based trading platform for China JiangQian Tide. This system includes most of the functionality being proposed for the Staryoo.com trading platform, including: transactions and trading of Shanghai A shares, statement of account transactions/balance, Windows NT based, online retrieval of market reviews and exchange information, downloading of historical data, input of stock symbol and lookup, network security/firewall implementation, and built-in analysis systems.
The Board of Directors and management team are diverse and highly experienced. A variety of backgrounds, including those in the technology, banking, or securities industries.
Starmile relationships with American companies are a better way to penetrate China’s market. American companies won’t have the same difficulties as Chinese companies because they will be culturally sensitive.
Although we are lucky and arrogant, our place in the market has allowed us to change the face of the real estate industry. Our current business plan does not reflect the impact of ecommerce and its growth. Our company views the Internet as a tool that allows us to provide services directly to agents’ homes, while still adhering to all of our legal obligations under federal and state laws. Our agents can receive 100% of their commission, which is a privilege that only the most experienced realtors have. They pay $200 per month plus $100 for each listing and/or sale. If you look at our projections, we can accomplish this and still generate astronomical profits from the deal. Our agents can save thousands of dollars. It is imperative that you join our company. We make a significant profit, and the consumers also save money. Amerihall Realest is the name given to the agents associated with Amerihall. It is bestowed upon those who have attained the highest level in professionalism and knowledge about the real estate market.
These partners have the ability to automate businesses as well know the needs and wants of real estate agents. This combined with the ability to make changes via the Web gave us the opportunity to create a site devoted to the needs in the real estate industry. This includes agents, clients, suppliers, and even real estate educational services. Our company envisions continuing education classes provided to our agents exclusively through our website allowing agents, for a fee, directly from their home computers, to accomplish all the continuing educational needs required by the various states. The entire process will end with the agent automatically renewing their state licenses through the appropriate agency.
We are simply ‘#8220 the future of realty” and we believe that this will revolutionize realty.
1.1 Strategic Alliances
AT&T will provide all our Web requirements as well as automate server designed specifically for agents. This allows them to receive all their calls via our virtual floor plan. Each agent will get an extension number. When clients call our tollfree phone number, they will need to enter the extension of the agent. This call will then be forwarded directly to the agent’s home office. If the client doesn’t have the extension number of the agent they are calling, they will be asked to choose another option. This will send the call to the Amerihall agent closest to them. AT&T recognizes the strength in our business plan and anticipates that we will grow so quickly that they need to automate more of their systems to meet the demand. Independent of our projections, their projection is 10,000 in the first year. They also anticipate 100,000 transactions on their network before retooling. Their strength lies with their ability supply all of their potential clients with high-band Internet access using cable modems. We are currently considering a script page for our agents that would allow them to sign up easily and offer a discounted program for installation. This will allow our agents easy sign-up and a discounted installation program, and will also allow our agents a direct link through our website, promoting fast Internet access at discounted rates. The growth of our company will directly depend on the speed with which clients and agents adjust to technology. AT&T is the best choice for these future products.
Bank of America provided the best services for our company. In the initial talks with our Web Developer, they knew that this company would prove to be a valuable asset to real estate. The merchant services they provide are tailored to our special billing needs. They also have a special script that our Web developers created to help Amerihall agents. Amerihall and Bank of America have created a system which will allow agents to deposit their checks directly into the corporate account from their virtual office terminal. The electronic transfer will take place instantly and the receipt will be printed immediately to the printer of the realtors’#8217. This is a first-of-its kind service in the industry. Also, the bank will certify our Escrow Accounts on a monthly basis to ensure our clients have the best quality control in the business.
These measures exceed all state requirements regarding escrow management. Bank of America’s software developers are currently working on more features with future plans to allow our agents and their clients the ability to watch the transaction progress through all stages from start to finish.
Sterling Capital Mortgage , a national brokerage firm that specializes in residential mortgages, is . Our agents can access our site 24/7 and view a client’s credit history online. Instantly, the server will generate a prequalification email that allows clients and agents to submit offers to purchase particular properties. This is yet another system that was designed specifically for Amerihall.
Lowen Signs has the largest range of real estate signs manufacturing in the country. They offer a web site that allows agents to place custom Amerihall orders and then ship the signs directly to them.
1.2 Service Description
The product will be available online, giving agents the ability to manage all their real estate transactions. They have already gained access to our multiple listing services through the Internet. This allows them to post their listings and reports their sales. We want to provide them with all the services offered by a traditional office, without having to ever visit that office.
Agents can choose a duty and be placed on the right page.
Agents need to order paper materials. Simply visit our vendor section and choose the style, quantity, personal information, and design they wish to have printed. This site will be connected to a printer who will fill the order and ship the material directly to their home office. We would like the event to be completely transparent for the agent and to appear as another Amerihall service. The same system could be applied to house signs, Errors & Omissions Insurance and home inspection agencies. It would also apply to real estate lawyers. We will also offer a site a nationally recognised mortgage company. The agent can input their clients’ personal information, and the site will immediately run credit checks and provide a prequalification note for the purchase.
Our system allows agents to be charged with credit cards for all services, as well as monthly fees.
Our company will hold a blanket Error & Omissions coverage policy. Amerihall pays the insurance carrier one fee each year and charges agents a $60 per quarter fee.
Finally, we will provide all agents with a national toll-free number. The number will be displayed on all participating Realest(r), signs along with the extension. Callers will dial the number toll-free and be asked for the extension. The agent would then receive the call.
It will also be an advertised number throughout the country, which allows us to advertise the number to all potential clients through traditional advertising. AT&T automation will forward the call to the agent if a prospect calls the number. If the service fails to find an Amerihall Realest(r) agent in the area, the call will return to the corporate office and then be referred to a non-participating agent with an expressed agreement that they will pay a 20% referral fee to our office.
This feature will enable us to pay national advertising to increase public attention without burdening individual agents with high advertising expenses. We are keen to eventually do all the phone features in-house as technology advances.
We will have a live online help desk, available during business hours, to answer all of our agents’ questions and concerns. There will also be an email help desk constantly online.
In addition to all these feature, the agents will be able to download all of the forms used in the sale and management of real estate via the website.
In the future, our virtual office will take advantage of a live chat through NetMeeting, which will allow all agents (with the appropriate equipment) to communicate with each other, as well as deal with questions and concerns directly with our staff.
We also wish to provide each agent with an email address that corresponds with the Amerihall image.
1.3 Description of the Company
Amerihall was created from the merger of various real estate companies that were both franchises, and partnerships. Hall Properties Realty, Inc. is a real estate brokerage that has been in operation for more than 18 years. It also owns a management and sales company. Hall properties also has franchise rights for D.B.A. residential franchise. Re/Max Junction. We are a creative marketing agency that uses technology to promote real estate.
We have found shortcomings in real estate sales technique as a whole. The traditional realty office follows a plan that brokers supply basic equipment and office space. phone, fax, computer, printers). They also supply all prerequisites dictated by state law, in that the company will have a place of business that is open for inspection by the appointed agencies of the state during normal business hours. The office, along with all relevant documents to run the business, will be open to inspection during designated business hours. They will also need to supply at least one designated representative who can answer questions about real estate for the state agencies.
There is no limit to the number of agents under one broker’s license, and the only rule designated by the state concerning the amount of agents is that all of their licenses must be displayed conspicuously in the office.
The traditional office receives between 20% and 50% of the commissions from the sales made by the agent. These commissions can reach tens or thousands of Dollars. The agents still have to pay for any miscellaneous items, which can be hundreds of Dollars per month.
The Re/Max plan is a simple desk charge that is paid on a monthly basis under a triple-net lease. The average agent pays $2,000 per monthly for desk rental. A shared fee is paid for all other expenses, such as salaries, utilities, supplies, etc. ).
Both agents are still responsible for any personal advertising that is placed in order to benefit their office. They can’t guarantee they will get the highest return on their investment.
Our vision is to make the Internet a tool that allows agents to work from home, with faxes and computers, to serve all their clients. The agent gets to advertise in a fashion allowed by law and receives all the proceeds from their investment. Amerihall Agents pay a flat fee to our company of $200.00 / $100.00 per transaction. The agent is entitled to 100% of the commissions.
1.4 Mission
Amerihall has one mission: to revolutionize the way we do business in realty by reducing the cost of a traditional office, and replacing it using the internet. The real estate agent will save $30,000 to $50,000 annually, which will help them increase their profits. They can also underbid other traditional realtors for the commissions they charge consumers. In the end, the consumer will save thousands of dollars on the sale.
1.5 Financing Requirements
The owner invested $125,000 in the company. Rest of the money will be raised through new members or sales of services.
Our interest in seeking outside funding is solely for the purpose of expanding on a national level. Funds will be used to market Amerihall across the United States. Direct marketing campaigns will be used through lists obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests from individual state licensing authorities. The campaign will be slightly modified to reflect the state laws and regional policies governing real estate agents.
InteliChild.com gives bright children a safe place to interact and have fun with other kids, educators, the web, and the wider world. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It provides a safe environment for children to play and parents and schools to purchase, as well as a creative, fair, and healthy work environment for employees.
The InteliChild.com ecommerce project is the natural progression of the InteliChild.com Internet site. The site will promote and sell select toys, books and software products. It will also produce Web products and Web applications that will increase market share, promote name recognition, and maximize efficiency.
The Company
InteliChild.com, the current start-up, has four employees. The California C corporation was created by the principal founders at 25% ownership. (Name Omitted) Capital partners acquired 50% of the company. The company has only one office. The initial website is at www.citruscoolkids.com.
Our core competitive advantage is the knowledge base that we have created in-house. Our competitor spends five to ten times more money on outsourcing than we do to companies that can provide services that we offer in-house. The same applies to InteliChild.com. Already having the SQL(tm), ColdFusion() programming skills, we will now add Flash(tm).
Products and Services
InteliChild will be offering a steadily increasing mix of three lines of products:
Toys and Games – carefully chosen toys and games that appeals to the target audience, their parents, and educators.
Books: there should be a selection of books that appeal specifically to the parents and educators of the target market, so that these interested adults can go to this site and order books about their children. In addition, of course there is also a selection of books to be ordered by and for the kids to read.
is carefully selected software to appeal specifically to the target market.
The Internet changes every three to six months, or faster. Therefore, our strategy for future development is to remain positioned with enough flexibility to adapt new technologies, and adapt to changes quickly.
The Market
InteliChild.com is experiencing an explosion in sales due to technology advancements in teaching fields and the acceptance technology as a teaching aid. We need to get approval from the school community, which includes teachers, PTAs, and special education programs, in order to enter the market.
These four areas are our primary targets:
The children themselves.
Parents.
Educational institutions for children of the upper class.
Self-teaching families.
We have plans to expand internationally, but our first launch will be in the US upper class. We know that the majority of our clients drive BMW’s and have great taste. They spend more on their children than they do on their cars because they like the technology that we have built. They are also impressed by high-quality design and have high bandwidth connections.
Financial Considerations
Because we are determined to be the Internet’s dominant company, our start-up costs can be high.
The Breakeven Analysis indicates that we are at steady-state breakeven in the first one year.
The forecast for sales is based upon increasing website traffic and increasing the number of sales per session. From Year 1 through Year 3, sales are expected increase exponentially. The forecast obviously depends on traffic increase. We plan to lose money for at least three years while we build traffic and develop our position for the long-term future.
Objectives
Traffic measured in unique sessions: 100,000 user sessions in June, Year 1, 450,000 in December Year 1, 3.5 million Year 2, and 5,000,000 in Year 3.
Selling through, measured in dollar sales for each unique visit: December 1, 2012 saw a record high of $0.58; $0.83 in Year 2, and $0.92 the following year.
Value is the ability to attract additional investment at economically viable valuations. We need to attract
Moderate investment in this year and an additional large injection in Year 2, with a valuation performance that yields attractive Internal Rate of Return (IRR) for investors. The financial section shows IRR of greater than 100% for all investors. However, IRR is lower for seed and slightly lower for the second round.
Acquisition (IPO) or Initial public offering in Year 4 at a valuation greater than $20 Million. This assumes that earnings and sales are the market values, which are very high at the time this plan is written.
Mission
InteliChild.com provides bright children a fun place to interact with educators, other kids, and the wider world. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It’s a safe place for children to play, for parents to buy school supplies, and for employees to work in a fair and creative environment.
Keys to Success
Customers must be retained. The website must be simple to use, and can be viewed quickly. User satisfaction is an ultimate priority.
If the project can capitalise on the traffic generated by InteliChild.com and convert the user sessions into dollars via the commerce site, it will succeed.
InteliChild isn’t ready to hire more people so the sales process must be simple to manage and flexible enough.
The e-commerce project will further establish InteliChild.com as a technology leader. It will not only bring in traffic, but also return traffic.
