Comments on: Red-Teaming: Improve Your Chances of Getting Funded http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/ Senior Adviser, Board Member, Executive Coach, Author Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:00:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13923 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:03:48 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13923 Dr. Earl R. It has been a very long time that my institution, Lingnan, engaged in Business plan competition origanization for MBA students. They looked for real biz opportunities and tried to launch these projects. Will you have biz trip to China, especially to Guangzhou, then please come and visit us and give our MBA students a speech about how to attract investors and/or topics related to entrepreneurship. BR, LI Posted by JILI Lingnan Dr. Earl R.

It has been a very long time that my institution, Lingnan, engaged in Business plan competition origanization for MBA students. They looked for real biz opportunities and tried to launch these projects. Will you have biz trip to China, especially to Guangzhou, then please come and visit us and give our MBA students a speech about how to attract investors and/or topics related to entrepreneurship.

BR,
LI
Posted by JILI Lingnan

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13922 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:03:25 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13922 In my experience, if you are requesting a modest investment it almost always must be used to grow the business directly. If the business is already profitable and self sustaining the rules change and it becomes about ROI...lwf Posted by Lee Frederiksen In my experience, if you are requesting a modest investment it almost always must be used to grow the business directly. If the business is already profitable and self sustaining the rules change and it becomes about ROI…lwf
Posted by Lee Frederiksen

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13918 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:59:33 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13918 learntosucceed.bizMany good points above. Also having a well developed business plan, that helps small business aspirants focus their eergies, is also essential. Many individuals think they have it all in their head, or in some misconstructed presenation or plan. If you are serious about funding, you need a serious plan. http://www.learntosucceed.biz . Posted by Richard Platoni learntosucceed.bizMany good points above. Also having a well developed business plan, that helps small business aspirants focus their eergies, is also essential. Many individuals think they have it all in their head, or in some misconstructed presenation or plan. If you are serious about funding, you need a serious plan. http://www.learntosucceed.biz .
Posted by Richard Platoni

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13882 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:23:02 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13882 fia.org.au).Great question, I find that the better you plan and the more you break your fundraising down into manageable and achievable stages the greater the liklihood of success. There is a great resouce for fundraisers in Australi called 'The Fundraising Institute of Australia' that really helps to train staff, improve programs and generally increase the chances of success. (www.fia.org.au). Do you have a similar organisation in the US? Posted by Julie Garland McLellan fia.org.au).Great question,
I find that the better you plan and the more you break your fundraising down into manageable and achievable stages the greater the liklihood of success.
There is a great resouce for fundraisers in Australi called ‘The Fundraising Institute of Australia’ that really helps to train staff, improve programs and generally increase the chances of success. (www.fia.org.au). Do you have a similar organisation in the US?
Posted by Julie Garland McLellan

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13880 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:22:11 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13880 What I have run into is that if your venture does not fit neatly into one of a half dozen buckets, then you can't get funding. Unless you are working on IT, social media, Smart Grid of certain areas of healthcare there just aren't any investors willing to look at you. My venture is related to food safety - what is called "field to fork" traceability. A portion of it has even been certified by the USDA. Those in agriculture ( and there are only a few) roll their eyes when they hear about databases, wireless comms and IT. Those in IT run screaming when you tell them cows don't come from the grocery store. On top of it, to keep costs low and time to market fast, we use existing technologies so there isn't much in the way of a patent portfolio. All we have is a unique, affordable and well conceived solution to a nationwide problem that kills or sickens hundreds of thousands each year and also puts companies out of business. It just isn't in one of those popular buckets so we remain unfunded. Posted by Mitch Carr What I have run into is that if your venture does not fit neatly into one of a half dozen buckets, then you can’t get funding. Unless you are working on IT, social media, Smart Grid of certain areas of healthcare there just aren’t any investors willing to look at you. My venture is related to food safety – what is called “field to fork” traceability. A portion of it has even been certified by the USDA. Those in agriculture ( and there are only a few) roll their eyes when they hear about databases, wireless comms and IT. Those in IT run screaming when you tell them cows don’t come from the grocery store. On top of it, to keep costs low and time to market fast, we use existing technologies so there isn’t much in the way of a patent portfolio.

All we have is a unique, affordable and well conceived solution to a nationwide problem that kills or sickens hundreds of thousands each year and also puts companies out of business. It just isn’t in one of those popular buckets so we remain unfunded.
Posted by Mitch Carr

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13877 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:18:52 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13877 Larry, See.. the elevator pitch is more like the secret art of inducing migraines. If you'd like to take this further, let's do so offline as this discussion thread is concerned with Dr Smith's deep expertise. Finally been able to access the site and greatly enjoying the insight. Posted by Paul Peters Larry,
See.. the elevator pitch is more like the secret art of inducing migraines. If you’d like to take this further, let’s do so offline as this discussion thread is concerned with Dr Smith’s deep expertise. Finally been able to access the site and greatly enjoying the insight.
Posted by Paul Peters

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13874 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:17:46 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13874 Ok, i'm trying to use some contacts at SWIFT to set up an high-security infrastructure for "registered contract-circles of trust concerning quality certificates".. These quality certificates can apply to everything.. messaging standards, currencies, the use of US English, metric system, HTTP, color coding for flower trade, geographical description, the visual experience of Monet, the clickbehaviour of my aunt.. everything. People, companies, organisations, computers, can register a "letter of intent" to agree on such a quality certificate. This makes a contract between at least one person, some other entity and the legal entity where these contracts are registered. This can be something of high importantance such as two companies agreeing to implement ISO 26000 standard for Corporate Social Responsibilty, or it can be a micro-credit IOweU for someone paying for public transport (which is more cost effective than micropayments). Or it can be door-to-door salesman dialing in on an 0800 number and registering an agreement making use of whichever means on can identify someone else, passport, social id, address, whatever.. (all these are qualities again).. The entities making up a contract form a so-called circle of trust, where everyone is responsible to uphold the integrity of the circle. Such circles can have different gradients in hardness (policy when not complying to the contract), but essentially this is the easiest way for agreements to form. You can also use to create tunnels on the internet, and arcade of websites, which are tied together by e.g. the Gucci quality so people can do online secured shopping in a private segment of the online world of "friends of a friend" of Gucci. With these ingredients, putting them in a central location and making it a lot easier, and lots of smart AI behind it this ought allow for a new forms of commerce to happen. This may not be what certain companies want who are heavily dependent on competing, but such can be molded in hardened circles concerning these qualities.. but it are agreed-upon standards which have enabled many a business to flourish, as well as trying to differentiate themselves by deviating from it. Posted by Paul Peters Ok, i’m trying to use some contacts at SWIFT to set up an high-security infrastructure for “registered contract-circles of trust concerning quality certificates”.. These quality certificates can apply to everything.. messaging standards, currencies, the use of US English, metric system, HTTP, color coding for flower trade, geographical description, the visual experience of Monet, the clickbehaviour of my aunt.. everything. People, companies, organisations, computers, can register a “letter of intent” to agree on such a quality certificate. This makes a contract between at least one person, some other entity and the legal entity where these contracts are registered. This can be something of high importantance such as two companies agreeing to implement ISO 26000 standard for Corporate Social Responsibilty, or it can be a micro-credit IOweU for someone paying for public transport (which is more cost effective than micropayments). Or it can be door-to-door salesman dialing in on an 0800 number and registering an agreement making use of whichever means on can identify someone else, passport, social id, address, whatever.. (all these are qualities again).. The entities making up a contract form a so-called circle of trust, where everyone is responsible to uphold the integrity of the circle. Such circles can have different gradients in hardness (policy when not complying to the contract), but essentially this is the easiest way for agreements to form.
You can also use to create tunnels on the internet, and arcade of websites, which are tied together by e.g. the Gucci quality so people can do online secured shopping in a private segment of the online world of “friends of a friend” of Gucci.
With these ingredients, putting them in a central location and making it a lot easier, and lots of smart AI behind it this ought allow for a new forms of commerce to happen. This may not be what certain companies want who are heavily dependent on competing, but such can be molded in hardened circles concerning these qualities.. but it are agreed-upon standards which have enabled many a business to flourish, as well as trying to differentiate themselves by deviating from it.
Posted by Paul Peters

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13872 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:17:01 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13872 Paul, Can you explain in more general terms? I'm not as advanced as you in the technical jargon. Thanks, Larry Posted by Larry MacDonald Paul,

Can you explain in more general terms? I’m not as advanced as you in the technical jargon.

Thanks,
Larry
Posted by Larry MacDonald

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13870 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:16:18 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13870 Thanks Larry.. well, i have one idea that actually creates four new markets.. i had some plans about collaborative marketplaces and service bazaars, but as i think most B2B platforms and VANs are a failure in the sense it addresses a small island of the whole, whereas adhoc web services, rest, ftp, vpn, etcetera have grown wild, i went a level deeper to allow for an infrastructure for "messy B2B", as flexible as using a security certificate with your webbrowser. Essentially what it came on is a logical infrastructure for commerce, any kind of commerce... I'm trying to work with a relatively neutral international organisation to get this going. The only plans i had which were limited apply to IT operations and such, which i still assume 8 figures yearly revenue when it stabilizes but IT is now going through a forceful and wrong commodification and budgets are tight. There are some ideas i have which address both reducing costs and change the way operations work. The thing is that most solutions i've come up with are infrastructural, new, moderately disruptive, relatively large marketshare, but not sexy.. Posted by Paul Peters Thanks Larry.. well, i have one idea that actually creates four new markets.. i had some plans about collaborative marketplaces and service bazaars, but as i think most B2B platforms and VANs are a failure in the sense it addresses a small island of the whole, whereas adhoc web services, rest, ftp, vpn, etcetera have grown wild, i went a level deeper to allow for an infrastructure for “messy B2B”, as flexible as using a security certificate with your webbrowser. Essentially what it came on is a logical infrastructure for commerce, any kind of commerce…
I’m trying to work with a relatively neutral international organisation to get this going.
The only plans i had which were limited apply to IT operations and such, which i still assume 8 figures yearly revenue when it stabilizes but IT is now going through a forceful and wrong commodification and budgets are tight. There are some ideas i have which address both reducing costs and change the way operations work.
The thing is that most solutions i’ve come up with are infrastructural, new, moderately disruptive, relatively large marketshare, but not sexy..
Posted by Paul Peters

]]> By: Dr. Earl R. Smith II http://www.dr-smith.info/red-teaming-improve-your-chances-of-getting-funded/comment-page-1/#comment-13766 Dr. Earl R. Smith II Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:09:03 +0000 http://www.dr-smith.info/?p=106#comment-13766 Dear Dr.Earl R.Smith II Seasons Greetings I have read your text above and am very happy to understand your concern.You are really very frank and unassuming.Let me do my small part to encourage your venture. In these days it is very difficult to improve your chances of getting funded.The reason being not dearth of donors,funds but simply because the way of approach which is very important. If one approaches this subject with lots of ifs and buts then you can never improve your chances of getting funded. Start spreading a message that you want to impart free education to poor children and also employment to them after the training is completed.So the donors will get interested in the project and they get candidates who are really of good stuff.You can give them employment in the donor's organisation at a later date.So your donor is kept happy and he starts donating. Never take a donor for granted.Make him realise,aware that you are seriously considering proposals to help the donor at the end without fail.Once this trust is built the donor will rope in more donors. Thanks. Posted by RAMAKRISHNA KOPPAKA Dear Dr.Earl R.Smith II
Seasons Greetings
I have read your text above and am very happy to understand your concern.You are really very frank and unassuming.Let me do my small part to encourage your venture.

In these days it is very difficult to improve your chances of getting funded.The reason being not dearth of donors,funds but simply because the way of approach which is very important.

If one approaches this subject with lots of ifs and buts then you can never improve your chances of getting funded.

Start spreading a message that you want to impart free education to poor children and also employment to them after the training is completed.So the donors will get interested in the project and they get candidates who are really of good stuff.You can give them employment in the donor’s organisation at a later date.So your donor is kept happy and he starts donating.

Never take a donor for granted.Make him realise,aware that you are seriously considering proposals to help the donor at the end without fail.Once this trust is built the donor will rope in more donors.

Thanks.

Posted by RAMAKRISHNA KOPPAKA

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