{"id":268,"date":"2012-02-08T23:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T23:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2012-02-24T01:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T01:06:03","slug":"raising-finance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"Business plan and funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Company or Client &#8211; Client agent confidentiality<br \/>\nTrading activity &#8211; Producers of wood pellets from a mixture of virgin and waste wood<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What?<\/h2>\n<p>Prepared business plan and make presentations to VC and HNWI for \u00a33m. Received offer from a GreenTech fund.<\/p>\n<h2>How?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Met client to discuss the level and type of funding they were looking for.<\/li>\n<li>Carried out quick investigation on company books and records.<\/li>\n<li>Estimated a opening position.<\/li>\n<li>Visited manufacturing plant and mapped out whole operation.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared a schedule of input&gt;&gt;process&gt;&gt;output for each manufacturing process e.g. picking station, drying, Hammel shredder, Beast shredder, Hammer mill, pellet mill etc<\/li>\n<li>Designed a data matrix to carry out multi plant modelling.<\/li>\n<li>Agreed plant procurement forecast with the directors.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared full financial model.<\/li>\n<li>Carried out <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a title=\"Wood pellet is the future\" href=\"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=2919\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">market research<\/span><\/a><\/span> to ascertain what were the key market driver and opportunity proposition for the investor.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared the full business plan.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared a teaser and email across to over 100 fund managers.<\/li>\n<li>Prepared presentation material for face to face meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Spoke to funders and arranged meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Met funders and presented business plan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Company or Client &#8211; Client agent confidentiality<br \/>\nTrading activity &#8211; Pet toy retailer, Restaurateurs, Industrial shelf manufacturer, eConferencing software, Online fashion magazine and many more.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>What?<\/h2>\n<p>Prepared business plan and make presentations to funders \/ bankers.<\/p>\n<h2>How?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Conduct initial meeting with client to understand business model and take detailed note.<\/li>\n<li>Carry out research on the business, market, competition, financial, regulatory and other areas.<\/li>\n<li>Set agenda for a workshop to setup data model for projection.<\/li>\n<li>Chair workshop and fully understand and model revenue and cost matrix including overhead requirement to support activity forecast.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare full financial forecast.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare full business plan.<\/li>\n<li>Send plan to client to review and arrange final meeting.<\/li>\n<li>Meet client and fine tune financial model and business plan<\/li>\n<li>Prepare presentation material for funders \/ bankers where applicable.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare client for the presentation.<\/li>\n<li>Join client when meeting funders \/ bankers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company or Client &#8211; Client agent confidentiality Trading activity &#8211; Producers of wood pellets from a mixture of virgin and waste wood What? Prepared business plan and make presentations to VC and HNWI for \u00a33m. Received offer from a GreenTech fund. How? Met client to discuss the level and type of funding they were looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/268\/revisions\/2926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}