Our Objectives
Our focus is to help individuals and small businesses who do not have the financial muscle or technical expertise to exploit their ideas. Our business objectives are:-
- To provide advice and guidance to people who have ideas for a web-based business but who have no experience in business or technology,
- To assist them in identifying business risks and how these can be mitigated,
- To help them to produce proof-of-concept or prototype sites to try out their propositions,
- To help them establish a viable Internet business, and
- To provide this service at a fee rate that they can afford.
Services
- Initial contact
- Proposal
- Costs and Investment
Initial Contact
After you send us your contact details, we will have a quick telephone conversation with you. In many instances, business ideas can be developed using standard hosting packages that are generally available. If this is the case, then we will advise you how to access these standard services. If your idea requires something more 'special', then we will arrange to meet you at a convenient location and discuss with you in more detail how to implement your ideas.
At the first meeting, we will sign mutual non-disclosure agreements so that your ideas will remain your own even if you do not proceed with us. This initial meeting should take between one and two hours.
Proposal for Assistance
A few days after our initial meeting, we will write to you a formal proposal setting out what we can do to help you make your idea work.
This will be a written document that describes what we need from you, what we will do for you, the likely costs and the likely time scales. You can make the decision whether to work with us or not based on this proposal.
Costs and Capital Investment
We can work with you in flexible way. Although we believe capital investments should be minimised, there are occasions where some external capital will be needed to make the business happen. We have contacts with sources of capital that we can introduce to you.
If the business is interesting to us, we may consider working at a reduce fee rate or even at a zero fee rate for some share of your equity.
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