What due diligence mistakes do entrepreneurs make in selling their company? With only 16% of all letters of intent eventually consummated in the sale of a company, the due diligence process is where many deals break down. Due diligence can involve a 25+ page list of requests for information. The buyer uses due diligence to manage risk, adjust its offering price, and decide whether to go through with the deal. Although buyers often fail to look at the right factors during due diligence, what mistakes during this critical phase of mergers and acquisitions can you as a seller avoid? Continue reading “4 Due Diligence Mistakes Sellers Make During Sale Of Company” »
This is a series of five articles designed to help you build the relationships that bring value to yourself and your contacts. The series focuses on the small, but crucial steps you need to take to build valuable relationships.
We start with examining your own organization to identify your own value proposition – its strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities. Next, we do the necessary research to find those companies or agencies that would be interested in your product or service. We discuss making a connection to prospects, delivering value to your contact, and finally, setting performance metrics to manage your business development practice. Continue reading “Creating Valuable Relationships – Part One” »
 Hindmarsh Finance prepared a list of the largest groups that fund startups, ranked by number of investors.Sometimes a company’s future growth is contingent on landing angel investment funding. The challenge is to find the right angel investor who is passionate about your business. Continue reading “Top 10 Angel Investor Groups” » |
In an effort to prevent future founders from colliding into the Series A Crunch, Dixon advises startups set out to initially raise 18 months of funding, adding, “18 months effectively gives you let’s say 12 months of real operating, which gives you three iterations instead of one.” The more time to perfect the product the better.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 8, 2011
THE FEDERAL CIRCLE ANNOUNCES AN ADVISORY ENGAGEMENT WITH WORKSITE LIGHTING
The Federal Circle has been engaged by Worksite Lighting and Power Solutions to assist it in four areas – pursuit of SBIR funding for product development, business development, team building and financing. Dr. Smith, TFC’s Managing Partner said of the engagement, “I was immediately impressed by the technology that Worksite offers to companies working in dangerous environments. They bring light into darkness with their explosion proof, zone lighting. The company provides cutting-edge solutions that save lives and reduce the chances of explosions.”
Bill Matthews, worksite’s CEO and Founder said “WorkSite Lighting is excited about working with Dr. Smith and his team at The Federal Circle to help bring visibility and sustain rapid growth with our increasingly needed, safety driven industrial products in the government and private sectors.”
ABOUT WORKSITE LIGHTING AND POWER SOLUTIONS
Industrial companies and government entities that are tasked by regulatory and socioeconomic pressures to increase operational safety while decreasing their energy consumption are turning to WorkSite Lighting, LLC for solutions. WorkSite’s latest developments in Explosion Proof LEDs’ provide a single solution for accomplishing both. Through proper design features that efficiently dissipate heat, Explosion Proof LEDs’ decrease the chance of ignition in confined spaces and industrial work areas where fumes, vapor or fine dust could ignite, resulting in loss of life and assets. Entities looking to reduce their liabilities by increasing the safety of assets and personnel immediately recognize the value of WorkSite’s safety driven products within their organization.
Additional improvements in developing safer light fixtures come from an expanded line of portable and versatile, hazardous area lighting. To ensure safety, workers must have an adequate amount of light to perform maintenance and inspection tasks that are located in shadows or away from permanently installed lighting. WorkSite Lighting’s innovative line of Portable, Explosion Proof LEDs allow the proper rated light to be installed easily and temporarily almost anywhere it is required to adequately light a worker’s maintenance area. Light fixtures can be provided with the proper mounting configuration necessary to securely and temporarily install on scaffold, ladders, railings, beams, or with the use of powerful magnetic bases, even on flat surfaces. A complete line of lighting from hand held lights to light towers sixty feet in height offer a diverse mixture for most needs, while custom designed solutions are available to meet any requirement or specification possible.
In addition to increased safety, Explosion Proof LEDs’ consume 60% less energy than traditional metal halide lights, providing a significant reduction in energy consumption in government, oil and gas and utility power plant facilities that are lighting intensive around the clock.
WorkSite Lighting is a manufacturer of portable lighting and temporary power and has provided lighting and power solutions for the Dept. of The Navy, N.A.S.A, U.S. Coast Guard, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Fluor Corporation.
ABOUT THE FEDERAL CIRCLE
The Federal Circle is a DC-area senior advisory firm. Our team of highly experienced and well connected professionals is drawn from a wide range of disciplines. We bring substantial assets to the table and engage with companies that are well positioned for growth. It beings deep experience and a wide range of high-level contacts to every advisory engagement. We pull together custom designed teams which assist management, board members and shareholders to successfully meet the major challenges that dominate this highly dynamic and volatile economy. The Federal Circle provides Advisory in five major areas. Situational Assessment, Facilitated Strategic Planning, Coaching, Red-Teaming and Advisory Boards as Business Development Engines.
CONTACT INFORMATION
THE FEDERAL CIRCLE
Dr. Earl R. Smith II, Managing Partner
(202) 337-4473 DrSmith@TheFederalCircle.com
WORKSITE LIGHTING AND POWER SOLUTIONS
Bill Matthews, CEO
(713) 443-9989 bill@worksitelighting.com
Written by Brynn Koeppen on October 18, 2011 in Execs to Know, Small Business
Dr. Earl Smith is no stranger to entrepreneurship; after working on Wall Street he founded six for-profit companies as well as two non-profit organizations. Today Dr. Smith is the Managing Partner of The Federal Circle, where he specializes in expanding middle-market companies to true growth potential. “I get a great deal of satisfaction out of helping such companies meet and master challenges that are limiting their growth,” said Dr. Smith. Continue reading “Q&A With Federal Circle’s Dr. Smith: America’s Resistance To The Multi-Lingual World” »
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