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Check our EXPERT ADVICE, FREE DOWNLOADS or LINKS pages for other valuable resources! If you are an entrepreneur, you may register your venture on the Angel Network, by clicking the *See disclaimer below. Venture: Urban Upscale Community Development Location: Virginia This 300-unit residential development with a commercial element and a professionally designed, championship18-hole golf course is just over an hour from downtown Washington D.C. Research demonstrated a need for premium, residential development in Northern Virginia, convenient to the ease of travel provided by Dulles International Airport and within an hour's drive of medical facilities, cultural institutions and recreational activities in the Washington metropolitan area. Their plan will convert 313 acres of agriculturally zoned property of rolling hills and forest with broad vistas into a residential and commercial zoned collection of private, upscale neighborhoods, a championship golf course and an upscale shopping center including a 200-room hotel and conference center. The development will include 300 upscale residential units consisting of 200 single family detached homes, 60 town homes, 40 condominiums and a shopping center.
Venture: Resort Spa Complex Location: Kentucky This second-generation, experienced construction company has successfully completed residential and commercial projects in California, Alaska, Connecticut and Kentucky. They have a location in the beautiful Smoky Mountains ready for development in an area that nets 13 million visitors annually.
Venture: Corporate Urban Timeshare Location: North Carolina This experienced real estate management company will introduce a dynamic new concept to the business travel environment - the corporate urban timeshare. Though currently, successfully dominated by resort-type destinations, this rapidly growing new segment of the industry is attracting corporate buyers and business executives with meetings, conventions or sporting events attendees to leading cosmopolitan areas. This 60-unit timeshare offering studio, one, two and three-bedroom luxury apartments carefully designed to accommodate the progressive business traveler will offer the increased benefits of ownership with more spacious units, worldwide exchange opportunities, flexible usage and guaranteed accommodations including state-of-the-art business center, private meeting rooms, full-service day spa, gourmet restaurant and exclusive "members only" private club.
Venture: Theater Dining Location: California Having two successful restaurants that surround a particular theme, has been the key to their current success. This company is now ready to reinvent the theater experience and couple it with dining in a way never experienced before. They are poised and ready to open a state-of-the-art performing arts center fostering creativity, innovation and experimentation pushing the boundaries and limits of existing norms.
Venture: Air Travel Services Location: Florida This venture plans to establish a charter airline service with minimal capital investment and risk to investor yet expects to realize sales in excess of $40 Million during the first 12 months of operation, generating over $2 Million in pretax profits. This concept has a proven track record utilizing profitable niche markets in the domestic U.S. as well as to selected Mexican destinations.
Venture: Gaming Cruise Ship Location: New York The operation is structured to provide the finest Casino Gaming to the New York metropolitan area, the largest feeder market for the U.S. casino market. This SWATH vessel, eliminates seasickness and fatigue on passenger and crew. With the ability to maintain speed and direction in rough waters with noise and vibration levels of only 10% of a conventional ship, it has the characteristics of a vessel three times its length and twenty times its displacement. Every aspect of the industry is represented by the principals who are well respected authorities in the gaming field. This will be the flagship in a series targeted for several geographic areas.
Venture: Casino/Theme Hotel Location: Nevada Unique gaming opportunity to replace a high-profile partner that withdrew from the project due to corporate financial difficulties. The casino is located within a strip-based casino, retail and entertainment project that will total over $1.3 Billion when complete. The hotel will have approximately 1,000 rooms and 75,000 square feet of gaming space. The project has a very attractive location, well-developed and highly marketable theme, fully defined architectural design and the initial level of plans complete. The gaming company plans to operate the proposed project under a mutually acceptable management agreement with the new entity. The management team consists of experienced gaming professionals of the highest caliber.
Venture: Vacation Time-Share/Hotel Location: Nevada Publicly traded, this experienced vacation resort company has a long and impressive history of proven development and management projects throughout Florida and Arizona. Their goal is to convert prestigious hotel properties into successful time-shares. As part of the total development team, subsidiaries also control the building and architectural side of the business.
Venture: International Music Festival Location: New York This inaugural event scheduled for 2003, will showcase eight concert performances by the world's greatest jazz and classical artists known today. Created as a major, upscale annual entertainment event, it will take place in one of the most beautiful tourist areas in New York including hotels, casinos, golf courses, wineries and retain centers. The management team is a seasoned group of highly talented professionals including the executive producer of the Montreux Jazz Festival Tour and the marketing/PR director of a top ten symphony orchestra international tour. They are positioned for success in what author/entrepreneurial evangelist Mark Hoover calls ...one of the great growth businesses of the next 20 to 30 years. (Nov. 2001 Business Week interview) Venture: Multi-Entertainment Group Location: Washington The four divisions will bring positive message entertainment to the public through a record label, publishing company, production division and recording facility. The management team has been involved in music and film SCORE production including a 2-time GRAMMY award winner with over 150 film, documentaries and albums recorded with major artists.
Venture: Motion Picture Production Company Location: S. California An "A" list production company that thrives on top quality projects with a team of former successes including To Kill a Lawyer, Usual Suspects, Dr. Doolittle 2, Scent of a Woman, A River Runs Trough It and Rocky 1-5, this highly experienced and successful team has options on projects guaranteed to produce a higher-than-average return.
Venture: Urban Alternative Music Artists - CD Production Location: Washington Hailed as "One of the most inventive and creative pop/rock acts in the world!" by the Music Director of the largest Internet music site in the world, this "band out of nowhere" has become an instant worldwide sensation via the Internet, since debuting on MP3.com. Recently featured in "102 of the Best Songs You've Never Heard," Volume 1 and as one of the "Best Songs on the Net," in August 2001, this band is truly star quality. One of their selected cuts was chosen as the #1 video on the Internet entertainment channel, NOW TV, which interviewed the band via London for listeners from as far away as Australia, the UK and Asia.
Venture: 3-D Turbo Ride Theaters Location: Various U.S. cities / Worldwide This company is poised to create a new entertainment vehicle by installing high tech thrill rides at major tourist destinations worldwide. These rides will be manufactured by the same well-known company that has created some of the world's best rides. Passengers placed in the middle of the action through simulators will pitch, roll and turn to experience the thrill of a race-car, a jet fighter or the adventure of their dreams.
Venture: Indy Car 2002 Race Sponsorship Location: Rotates to raceways throughout the USA This high-profile, exciting sport joins forces with one of the biggest names in racing history as a strategic partner. Due to a change in federal laws, the former major national sponsor was forced to discontinue their sponsorship and this unbelievable car is now seeking a new sponsor! With coverage on both ABC Sports and ESPN this major racing league boasts a following in excess of 60 million spectators and viewers per race! But the best part is that as a sponsor, you will have pit privileges and a commercial hospitality/merchandising program including special seating for your company and guests, gourmet food, beverages with fully equipped office setup. This is unlike anything you could imagine!
Venture: Pilot for New Television Series Location: Undisclosed The host of this show brings a loyal following, having had one of the most famous shows in TV history! Details are too confidential to disclose! Contact us for more specifics about this one!
Venture: Urban Action Films Location: New York A dynamic, experienced production team with past success that include distribution with Castle Hill Productions, first-look deals with New Line Cinema, releases by Miramax and Redeemable Features, bring a well-known group of hip-hop actors and music celebrities looking to establish themselves with a crossover in films. This new genre of digital, low-budget, urban-action flicks has produced some of the most high-yield records in film history. This new genre of digital, low-budget, urban-action flicks has produced some of the most high-yield records in film history. The debut project, a high-quality, low-budget, mass appeal film has a confirmation agreement in place with a long-established Hong Kong motion picture company that has agreed to provide 55% of the final budget in cash for the film. Their premiere project will be the cornerstone of a small-scale entertainment conglomerate with four more projects to follow on the production line.
Venture: Recreation Ice Arena Location: North Carolina This will be the first facility of it's kind in this geographic area within a 2.5 hour radius. The premier arena will provide family orientated entertainment in a stylish domed facility with spectator seating for 350 guests. It has location, location, location! And, will have the capacity for private gatherings or conferences with private rooms, food service and interactive video games providing additional entertainment and additional revenue sources.
Venture: Nationally Syndicated Country Radio Show Location: Tennessee This live, weekly show will feature top celebrity guests delivering a wide-ranging audience spanning the last 50 years including a crossover section of country music. Celebrity guests will promote their talents and works with interviews and performances in front of a live audience. Each show will spotlight a different celebrity. A compliment supporting cast of personalities will encompass some of the music industry's most prominent names who will be called upon to recall and discuss stories and anecdotes about their life and career.
Venture: Music Recording & Entertainment Company Location: Nevada - California This seasoned entertainment company is involved in the development, production, promotion and marketing of new musical talent including Pop, Rock, R & B and Country ranging from children's product to movie and television sound tracks. This hardworking management team consists of talented producers with a wide-range of successful recording arts including Michael Jackson, Smokey Robinson, The Four Tops, Al Jarreau, Eddie Money, The Jackson Five and Diana Ross. Writing and producing credits include 3 Platinum and 17 Gold Albums with 6 Gold Singles!
Venture: Virtual Universe Entertainment Complex Location: 4 sites in the U.S. Various themes will combine interactive, entertainment attractions through high-tech futuristic science fiction with references to ancient cultures and mythologies that have a proven track record of widespread audience appeal. This entertainment center will be structured around virtual reality attractions featuring unparalleled experiences produced through both motion based and stationary platforms. The centers theme will be crystallized upon a unified science fiction mythic adventure story combining the theory of time and space travel with journeys to other dimensions. Theme restaurants and retailers will round-out the four completed complexes from 23,000 to 40,000 square feet. Strategic market analysis, construction and theme attraction plans are complete.
Venture: Television Pilot for Series Location: Confidential A television movie of the week and pilot for a new television series centers around a Hotel/Casino in a prominent, tourist town. This playground for the rich and famous attracts everyone from Japanese businessman to Indian bankers, European housewives and Australian cattle ranchers As a magnet for the rich and poor, people of all classes, seeking fortune or fame try on new lives for size looking for the American dream. This pilot combines the comedy and romance of the Love Boat with the glamour, intrigue and sheer outrageousness of Dynasty and Dallas. The premise of the story line allows for the introduction of weekly guests played by famous stars who will interact with the ongoing characters.
Venture: TV Movie of the Week Location: Nevada With a story line similar to Thelma & Louise, two unlikely women team up in an unprecedented effort to locate Bugsey Siegel's fabled, buried fortune in the desert just outside Las Vegas. It's a raucous, fast-moving, film filled with mob hit-men, snakes, murder and intertwined love stories while the two women continuously find themselves fighting and running for their lives!
Venture: Stock Exchange Cable Show Location: Nevada Using the power of television to secure the attention of motivated investors, this show proudly presents the benefits of particular stocks during a behind-the-scenes look at Wall Street with information, tips and updates for investor use.
Venture: Cattle Business Location: Nebraska This company has been successfully engaged in the cattle business for over fifteen years and now looks to expand to the next level of financial growth. Marketing strategies will hedge on the Chicago Mercantile. All cattle purchases will be protected against market failure.
Venture: Fish Farm Manufacturing Location: California & Mexico As an expansion business the company intends to capitalize on the lucrative tuna farming, seafood processing and international trading market throughout countries in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Australia and North America. The existing operation has successfully traded seafood worldwide for the past five years. Management ranges from fifteen to forty years of experience in every aspect of the industry making it a rare combination.
Venture: Retention-and-Release Water Product Location: Virginia This company has developed the most revolutionary, cost-effective product for the horticulture and agricultural industry in decades. It's retention-and-release product can be used to germinate seeds, grow plants and improve soil. It biodegrades, thus producing less environmental waste and healthier plants. The product can completely replace peat moss, a natural resource that will soon be exhausted on the planet. Results of independent scientific studies support all scientific claims.
Venture: Mexican Marinades & Sauces Location: S. California Their award-winning, sales-driven packaging and unique stories of growing up south of the border are more than just sheer entertainment. The unique character and versatility of these marinades and sauces offer limitless applications including Mild and Medium dipping sauces, Enchilada, Barbecue, Honey Mustard , Raspberry Jalapeno and Mexi-Que with tantalizing recipes to tempt the consumers imagination. Contracts are already in place and shipping has begun for nationwide distribution beginning in 8 states with 87 stores through Albertson's, Dillons, Raleys and QFC. Sales are virtually guaranteed.
Venture: Marine Portable Power Tools Location: Texas This innovative product is a lightweight, fully portable, long-life battery operated, high torque, cordless unit that can be sold at an attractive price and still generate high margins. The product has numerous key advantages over competitive tools including variable speed and direction of power, higher torque, lightweight, simplicity and portability. At this time, there is no direct competitive alternative.
Venture: Outdoor Garden & Landscaping Retail Chain Location: Arizona This local business is looking to expand their sate-of-the-art, one-stop, outdoor garden and landscape super center into a national retail chain beginning with the western states. The focus is to provide anything and everything a homeowner would want or need for their outdoor living area including pottery, fountains, houseplants, BBQ's, outdoor furniture, lighting, irrigation, lawn equipment, chemicals, fertilizers with a full service landscape design, development and maintenance division.
Venture: Personal Care - Hair Salon Location: Georgia Competitively priced to provide high-quality grooming services specialized for the Afro-american family, this project targets a $35 billion dollar industry with women accounting for 75% of all patrons. Targeted to capture this extremely valuable market, their services will include a women and men's salon providing styling, coloring, facials and all cosmetic applications, professional massage, a wide variety of nail related services, computer imaging, retail sales with privately designed programs to accommodate corporate clients and the elderly.
Venture: Interior Designer Package Location: S. California This project is being launched by a well-known celebrity who will use their mass-market, star appeal to promote this business over the Internet, via infomercials and through retail outlets. The retail product will allow consumers to design and customize their living accommodations through the expert guidance of design professionals while providing them with access to wholesale prices to purchase any/all merchandise they choose.
Venture: Reel Lawn Mower Manufacturing Location: Vermont This company has specially developed their first prototype and is ready to make minor adjustments to the second phase prototype prior to production. All proprietary rights are owned wholly by the company for a series of new products. In this $24 Billion lawn and garden market, there is no single manufacturer with which the consumer identifies. Competitors products are far inferior with little or no change in the last 40 years. They are solidly committed to becoming the market leader in the design and manufacture of a completely new and innovative line of lawn and garden products that will be marketed throughout the world in the residential, government and commercial markets.
Venture: Toy Manufacturing Location: S. California A developer and marketer of innovative, high quality youth products, designed to entertain and educate. The company plans to manufacture soft sport toys, kid's care products, plush toys, technological toys, activity kits, school products, novelty stickers and tattoos, die cast car accessories, ride-on accessories, and popular culture novelties. Licensing of products has already procured discussions and letters of intent from Pez, Tommy Hilfiger, Sony, Six Flags, Disney, Hershey, and the Muppets. Experienced management team brings historic success responsible for sales of goods for Jurassic Park, Universal and Mattel through licensed merchandise and innovative new technology.
Venture: Retail Gift Cards Location: Globally This innovative company has developed a plan to capture the retail gift market in a unique way that has not been done before. Details are too confidential to disclose but the project expects to be worldwide by year three.
Venture: Jet & Sail Cat Watercraft Location: S. California A new patented design for a Jet Cat and Sail Cat with inventory, tooling and molds already acquired, this project is ready for the second round of financing to manufacture inventory at levels available to fulfill upcoming seasonal orders.
Venture: Space Technology Location: East Coast As an information products business, its primary products are hyperspectral remote sensing imagery, maps, data products and information solutions. The company owns the most advanced hyperspectral remote sensing technology ever built, a technology that will enable it to collect raw mineral, compound, natural resource, and organic features scanning 1,000,000 square kilometers a day, covering every meter of the entire Earth in a year. They will own the most comprehensive database of Earth information in existence. No government or commercial entity in the world has even a fraction of such a database. The company's products enable land managers, governments, and industries to control properties, resources, harvests, oceans, with a diversity of operations effectively and economically thereby becoming the dominant provider of space and aerial hyperspectral remote sensing products and solutions in the world.
Venture: Environmental Water Purification Technology Location: Nevada First developed for NASA's Space Shuttle program and later refined for the International Space Station, these technologies provide the basis for a state of the art water purification system by combining the benefits of chemical absorption, ion exchange ultra-filtration and nano-filtration processes that produce a safe, healthy, superior tasting water. Today there is a worldwide need for purified water with a $20 Billion market that can produce net income of over $87 Million by its fifth year. This company is well positioned to capitalize on the latest worldwide requirements while answering one of the most compelling issues on our planet today!
Venture: Pharmaceutical Company Location: S. California Today, Neurodegenerative Disease is the major epidemic of the baby boomer generation. This scientific, medical corporation has U.S. and worldwide patents for a therapeutic agent to prevent and treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's Diseases affecting 4.5 million patients in the U.S. and 16 million patients in the developed world. The company is well positioned for the successful creation of a major pharmaceutical company scheduled to expand to include a technology-based international research organization.
Venture: Sports Enhancing Products & Services Location: New York This existing e-commerce company markets integrated chip technology into shirts, warm-ups and sport shoes that enhance and monitor physiological activity for optimum sports performance. An entire line of products include biofeedback devices created to enhance golf and tennis performance, psychologist/self-help kit; on-line training, coaching, seminars and even certification in sports psychology round out this company's unique concepts and strategies. They have developed and validated systems for evaluating the psychological performance of athletes during actual competitions.
Venture: Retention-and-Release Water Product Location: Virginia This company has developed the most revolutionary, cost-effective product for the horticulture and agricultural industry in decades. It's retention-and-release product can be used to germinate seeds, grow plants and improve soil. It biodegrades, thus producing less environmental waste and healthier plants. The product can completely replace peat moss, a natural resource that will soon be exhausted on the planet. Results of independent scientific studies support all scientific claims.
Venture: Live-Grip Access Location: Washington This project has far-reaching social impacts which could easily change the history of our planet. A revolutionary technology was initially developed to find a method which would secure handguns from use by children, or anyone not authorized to fire them. It is extremely affordable and nontransferable. This same technology can be used on the steering wheel or shift lever of automobiles, to detect the alcohol level of the driver whereby after a certain level is present, the car will not start. Used by the medical industry, this same technology could detect the specific point of internal bleeding and provide an earlier diagnosis than is now in existence for a more reliable, affordable and comfortable way to detect breast cancer. Existing letters of intent from the hotel, security and the education industries will provide gross sales orders of approximately $450 Thousand. This technology will bring the company to the forefront of the security industry with commercial, industrial, governmental, institutional, medical and consumer applications in everyday life. No more need for gun control laws; no gun theft; alcoholic drivers eliminated without the need for added police or governmental intervention; keys, ATM cards, access badges, credit cards obsolete! All with a patented technology targeting a $12.5 Billion market!
Venture: Low Voltage Integration Company Location: Nevada This highly successful company specializes in commercial CCTV Surveillance/Security Telecommunications, data cabling fiber optics, access controls, MATV, television data systems and home entertainment systems. It's existing contracts include major hotels and developers in the state. Owner looking to retire; management team in place.
Venture: Electronic Medical Records Software Location: S. California This company has cutting-edge, proprietary software that provides instant access through internet-based, medical records software for physicians, providing only one patient medical record to access for insurance companies and employers. Payers will have real-time access to all medical records/treatment, while physicians will save time, money and increase revenue without any capital outlay. The company assumes the vendor role thus providing data and records management and is paid a percentage of the gross receipts. The physician need not purchase anything - hardware or software. The product will improve the quality of care to patients by allowing each physician involved to see what the other physician is diagnosing/prescribing while assisting the employers and insurance companies control the runaway costs, inefficiency, fraud and abuse that plague the healthcare industry.
Venture: Breakthrough Power Supply Location: Colorado With compelling new breakthrough technology in the power supply industry, this company has created a new power source which is smaller, cooler, lighter, more reliable and effective than any power sources of its kind in existence. This is what everyone in the industry has been trying to develop, and they've done it first! They said it couldn't be done, and this company has done it! Their new products will change the history of the electronics industry forever! Primarily engaged in the research and development of power sources from AC to DC and DC to DC power supplies, this company seeks the final stage of funding to launch these new products into the marketplace. Discussions are already underway with major electronic industries, military, medical and commercial markets.
Venture: Speech Server Hosing & Telephony Management Location: New York This full service consulting company now provides B-2-B software design & development, systems administration, LAN/WAN administration, telecommunications, web site design and hosting. Expansion capital will take them to the next level, marketing their breakthrough technology of "voice hosting" enabling subscribers to access the Internet without being tethered to a PC whereby information can be retrieved off the web by simply picking up a telephone and asking for it. Subscribers can place a telephone call by simply speaking a name or phone number. Company PBX systems can now be replaced by advanced voice recognition to reach a person or department by simply speaking it allowing the application owner to outsource the speech resources as well as the telephony interface. Strategic partnerships are in place with some of the most highly recognized names in the industry. Their clientele list is impressive and includes the second largest investment bank in Austria.
Venture: Security PIN Codes Location: Arizona The latest in technology for secured protection on multiple levels against voicemail fraud, computer hacking and keyboard access. These methods can increase security levels from 1 chance in 10, to 1 in 40 million. Targeted uses for this new technology are commercial, industrial and governmental.
Venture: Beyond 411 Location: Arizona This telephone communication service provider gives callers complete information on any business, product or service with up-to-date information via live operators. Aside from the callers nominal fee for connection to this service, additional revenue is derived from the businesses listed which pay advertising rates for their information being provided to the callers.
Venture: Information Technology Location: California/Nevada With over 30 years of experience in software innovation, automated knowledge-based software transformation, systems integration, computer networking and systems re-engineering, this company could be the leader in building the world's most challenging information systems. The breadth and scope of their capabilities enables them to minimize client risk, maximize technology investment while delivering the best total systems integration, legacy transformation and computer networking services and solutions suited to each client's unique business needs.
Venture: Public Information Network Location: Ohio Information sharing by the public to solve and prevent crimes via the Internet would bring this company to the forefront as the largest public information database in the world. Powered by over 400 million Internet users that would receive money while remaining anonymous, giving tips, clues etc. to the police, public companies and private individuals looking for information or missing persons.
Venture: European Head Hunters Location: Texas This company will recruit from a market of 14 countries within Eastern and Central Europe with a population of approximately 375 million in human resources through an established network of local companies to bring their applicants technical and professional talents to U.S. companies. The applicants will have a minimum academic credentials equivalent to a U.S. bachelor degree.
Venture: Traditional & E-Marketing Location: Nevada Combining traditional marketing venues of TV and radio as their core business with the brokerage of directed Internet traffic to e-enable client businesses via placement in search engines and pay-per-click engines. They also create and maintain web sites that enhance visibility and attractiveness of the vendors.
Venture: Direct Media Marketing Location: Missouri With two premiere product offerings that provide a way to market high-impact advertising directly to the consumer in a totally unique way 24/7 utilizing the transportation industry. With a gross market potential of over $10 Billion this existing company has proven success in local markets and now looks to take the company worldwide.
Venture: Networks & Internet Functionality Location: Missouri Consumer access to network desktops and the Internet functionality. This product allows consumers and small businesses to access their personal desktop including all files, software programs, and Internet service provider settings anywhere and anytime. All that is required is Internet access. The product is quick and easy to use and is 4 -7x faster reaching web sites and applications than other browser based programs.
Venture: Internet-based Insurance Company Location: Illinois This company plans to create a state of the art customer care center via the web that accurately quote integrated carrier selections and brokerage services through cross-selling partnerships. Profit generation is projected to exceed $18 Million annually within 4 years.
Venture: Internet Charity Portal Location: S. California This innovative new company has taken a universal idea with great social impact into the high-tech environment by establishing an Internet portal where nonprofit organizations worldwide can reach millions of people to raise money for their causes. The revenue stream is threefold with a strong but realistic formula projecting revenues by year two up to $67 Million while providing the charities a net of 80 cents on the dollar with no up front costs!
Venture: Culinary-Hospitality Internet Portal Location: Arizona Already fully operational as a revenue producing web site and recognized globally, this company offers training, conferences, conventions and culinary events across America, Tokyo, Australia, Germany and Italy with leading international chefs of worldwide recognition. With established partnerships and market channels in over 60 countries, the accredited Culinary Institute offers students the ability to actively participate in lectures while posing live questions to the instructor no matter their geographical location. You will find their selection of culinary/hospitality opportunities unrivaled in the industry.
Venture: Multimedia Internet Portal Location: Florida This national, one-stop media company will provide promotional solutions to businesses targeting consumer markets through proprietary technology combining all forms of media - radio, television, print, Internet and telecommunications. They have developed a business model, the "Revenue Trap," referring to its recession-proof means of generating income from several multi-layered revenue streams simultaneously. Their co-branded version of proprietary software will be marketed to more than 7000 ISPs currently not utilizing any front-end application. This software will categorize and rate the top 300 web sites divided into 15 searchable categories. Currently, there is no competition for their specific business model.
Venture: Internet Professional Services Portal Location: Arizona This ambitious and experienced group of young entrepreneurs has designed a web portal where mid-sized firms can obtain a comprehensive suite of high-quality professional business services in a completely automated manner. Their service mix encompasses all of the professional services required by Internet firms to craft their image, tell their story and perform effectively as Internet businesses through low-cost automated services. Currently, there is no portal offering with a package anything like this.
Venture: Internet-based Women's Portal Location: Nevada This would be the first global organization pioneering a virtual coaching and mentoring network targeting 30 million professional women with live on-line events and broadcasts. By applying a unique approach to building an on-line community via multiple platforms it confidently expects to become the premier on-line woman's leadership community.
Venture: Internet-based Golf Retailer Location: Nevada Through a multi-lingual web site, a retail store with profit margins projected to reach 45% intends to market and sell it's unique, space-age, high-tech line of new golf products to target the $20 Billion market worldwide. The management team consists of the most competent and experienced team of professionals which add to the expected success of this venture.
Venture: Internet-based Stock Trading Location: Illinois The first and only internet-based stock trading environment for the benefit of small businesses and individual shareholders providing the essence of a digital stock market or exchange. This proprietary trading system enables shareholders to trade stocks themselves without market makers or other brokers. Revenue sources include initial listing fees with subsequent annual fees; and, trading fees which will be the major source of revenue. The company's infrastructure also provides enhanced services including research reports (Standard & Poor's), rating services, investment banking, and investor relations. Currently, the company has no direct competition. Because of regulatory hurdles, it has several years' lead time over any future competition.
Venture: Women's Specialty Magazine Location: Georgia Already in publication, this niche market magazine is targeted to expand nationwide to the top 12 cities in the U.S. As a new and innovative publication, they have successfully combined the magazine with a daily On-Air Radio Talk Show presented in a magazine-style format. Parallel marketing opportunities have already created the first annual magazine awards banquet designed to recognize Georgia's most outstanding women. Recipients included Coretta Scott King, pop star Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez, HIV/AIDS activist Ordray Williams and many others. This project is looking to take its audience to the next level.
Venture: Insurance Holding/Acquisition Company Location: Undisclosed This newly formed corporation will serve as a holding company for the purpose of insurance company acquisitions. Their goal is to acquire a series of insurance companies in order to take advantage of economies of scale, eliminate the duplication of services and bring new and innovative ideas to this dynamic industry. Their first acquisition is one of the most premier property and casualty insurance companies. The target company, established almost half a century ago and holding A.M. Bests highest rating in the industry "A" (Excellent), has already entered into a sale agreement where $13.5 Million of the investment replaces existing cash reserves. With an existing network of over 1800 active producers, they have a comprehensive product portfolio that includes automobile (nonstandard), commercial auto, commercial fire, dwelling fire, general liability/special events, homeowner, earthquake and surety. Insurance packages currently offered include jet ski, liquor liability, motorcycle, tanning/beauty shop and watercraft. It has effectively minimized its total exposure on any single risk to only $25,000.
Venture: Internet Banking Location: New York, Canada and Bermuda Utilizing state of the art technology, this with 13 branches in the U.S., 12 branches in Canada and 3 offshore this company operates as a non-jurisdictional, non-deposit-taking financial institution offering a totally private digital environment. This organization offers signature loans, unique Internet bank and trust cards, insurance products and cash management for Internet related business of all kinds with 24-hour surveillance and maximum-security software firewalls.
Venture: Internet-based Insurance Company Location: Illinois This company plans to create a state of the art customer care center via the web that accurately quote integrated carrier selections and brokerage services through cross-selling partnerships. Profit generation is projected to exceed $18 Million annually within 4 years.
Venture: Internet Insurance Location: Illinois This insurance model is quite different from the competition providing better coverage and prices for the consumer. Profitability comes from cost effective operations and direct response marketing of term life, annuity, health and auto insurance. They are on track as a multi-line shop to have the most customer empowering delivery systems in their chosen area.
Venture: Internet Charity Portal Location: S. California This innovative new company has taken a universal idea with great social impact into the high-tech environment by establishing an Internet portal where nonprofit organizations worldwide can reach millions of people to raise money for their causes. The revenue stream is threefold with a strong but realistic formula projecting revenues by year two up to $67 Million while providing the charities a net of 80 cents on the dollar with no up front costs!
Venture: Sports & Entertainment Foundation Location: Michigan This sports foundation raises money through tennis and ice skating events to benefit local charities. They are looking to become a profit organization which would also like to purchase an established celebrity productions company and concert series. The organization has had the participation of such celebrity, sports greats as John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg, Jimmy Connors, Tara Lipinski and Olivia Newton-John.
Venture: Pharmaceutical Company Location: S. California Today, Neurodegenerative Disease is the major epidemic of the baby boomer generation. This scientific, medical corporation has U.S. and worldwide patents for a therapeutic agent to prevent and treat Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lou Gehrig's Diseases affecting 4.5 million patients in the U.S. and 16 million patients in the developed world. The company is well positioned for the successful creation of a major pharmaceutical company scheduled to expand to include a technology-based international research organization.
Venture: Retention-and-Release Water Product Location: Virginia This company has developed the most revolutionary, cost-effective product for the horticulture and agricultural industry in decades. It's retention-and-release product can be used to germinate seeds, grow plants and improve soil. It biodegrades, thus producing less environmental waste and healthier plants. The product can completely replace peat moss, a natural resource that will soon be exhausted on the planet. Results of independent scientific studies support all scientific claims.
Venture: Golf Charity Location: Canada Founded by an international, best-selling author, this project intends to serve humanity by golfing the best courses across America and Canada at a penny a hole! Sponsors will receive local, regional and national media coverage for 12-15 months, plus associate their name with a world-class project that promotes caring and social values.
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