Moving on to EIS’s now. These are similar to the Venture Capital Trusts we talked about last time, but have even more tax benefits, as long as you are happy to accept that the quid pro quo is higher risk of loss.
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Christoper Carosa, CTFA Help Sponsors and Managers Avoid 401(k) Compliance …
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CDISC Releases New Protocol Representation Toolkit
By Business Wire The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is pleased to announce today at the CDISC European Interchange Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, the release of the first iteration of a Protocol Representation “Toolkit” for …
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Garda Delivers Solid 2012 Results with Strong Momentum in the Second Half of …
… one of the leading Security Solutions, Cash Logistics and Global Risk Consulting firms in the world, announced today its financial results for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2012, executing flawless integration of new business start-ups in US …
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White House hopes Do Not Pay will be agencies' one-stop solution for …
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The sorry state of Android hardware fragmentation
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David Cameron delivers big society speech: Politics live blog
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(PRWEB) October 4, 2003
CAMPBELL, CA (PRWEB) October 2, 2003 Anadigm®, the programmable analog company, today announced the closing of a new round of financing worth $ 15 million.
This C round of funding, led by Atlas Venture with ongoing investment from 3i, Quester and NIF Ventures, points to Anadigm®s success in winning market acceptance for its field programmable analog array (FPAA) integrated circuits, which offer an analog equivalent to the digital field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Anadigm® was founded in January 2000 as a spin-off from Motorola. More than 140 customers are designing Anadigm® FPAA technology into their products to provide complex filtering, signal conditioning, and closed loop control functions in consumer audio, industrial, and communications systems.
The companys product offering combines programmable silicon with easy-to-use software tools that drastically reduce the time needed to design, verify, and bring to market embedded systems with analog interfaces. Anadigm®s FPAAs are moreover the industrys first such chips that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental and electrical conditions, or compensate for equipment aging.
Anadigm® offers one of the few analog technologies that is both innovative and disruptive, said Gerry Montanus, Senior Principal at Atlas Venture. The recent launch of the companys Anadigmvortex product line has brought the company industry-wide attention, and demonstrates the markets readiness for a technology that will reduce the cost of analog circuit design, manufacturing, and innovation. Real-world interfaces are essential to a very wide range of electronic systems, and we are delighted to be part of Anadigm®s ambitious project of revolutionizing the way they are conceptualized and implemented.
The funding will be used to continue to expand Anadigm®s business in all geographical markets and support ongoing product development activities. The investment will also support additional enhancements to the software used to program the companys Anadigmvortex FPAAs, which remove the complexity from analog design and reduce the time for analog implementations from months to minutes.
We are excited to be moving forward with the support of these leading venture capital firms. 3i and Quester have been very supportive of the business and were instrumental in bringing in Atlas Venture, said Bill McLean, Anadigm® President and CEO. Our FPAA solutions continue to gain traction in the marketplace and customer engagements are validating our technologys value-add. The investment will allow us to implement the next stage of our product strategy and to further penetrate our target markets.
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About Atlas Venture
Atlas Venture is the leading international early-stage venture capital firm, investing in communications, information technology and life sciences companies. Atlas Venture has investing offices in Boston, London, Munich and Paris, and its investments are evenly divided between the United States and Europe. Founded in 1980, Atlas Venture has organized six international funds, and currently manages more than $ 2.1 billion in committed capital. The Atlas Venture investment team is comprised of seasoned operating executives and career venture capitalists that have been deeply involved in the formation and development of more than 300 companies worldwide. Visit Atlas Venture on the Web at http://www.atlasventure.com.
About 3i
3i brings capital, knowledge and connections to the creation and development of businesses around the world. It invests in a wide range of opportunities from start-ups to buy-outs and buy-ins, focusing on businesses with high growth potential and strong management. 3i invests in businesses across three continents through local investment teams in Europe, Asia Pacific and the USA. To date, 3i has invested over £15 billion (including co-investment funds). In the 12 months to 31st March 2003 an average of £3.7 million (including co-investment funds) was invested each working day. 3is current portfolio is valued at almost £4 billion. http://www.3i.com
About Quester
Quester is one of the UK’s leading independent venture capital groups specialising in the provision of finance and management support for growth companies at all stages of their life. Questers focus is on early stage investments in information and communication technology, healthcare and life science companies. With its first rate track record, Quester has earned a reputation as one of the best UK based sources of venture capital. The Quester investment team manages approximately £300 million on behalf of major institutional investors, leading UK universities, and five quoted venture capital trusts. http://www.quester.co.uk.
About NIF
NIF Ventures Co Ltd manages approximately $ 1.5 billion in venture capital funds, and has invested in over 1,400 companies since its establishment in 1982. With offices in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, and the United States, NIF offers worldwide representation. Its primary investment focus is in the information and communications technology industries. http://www.nif.co.jp
About Anadigm®
Anadigm® brings platform-based design to the analog world with pre-qualified software and hardware components that allow complex analog circuits to be implemented in an analog equivalent to the FPGA. Designed to implement signal conditioning, filtering, data acquisition, closed-loop control, and other analog functions in a wide range of embedded systems, Anadigm® FPAAs are first programmable analog ICs that can adapt on the fly to perform multiple functions, adjust to different environmental conditions, or compensate for equipment aging. Founded in January 2000 as a venture-backed technology spin-off from Motorola, Anadigm® maintains U.S. headquarters in Campbell, Calif., and European headquarters in Crewe, U.K. For further information, visit Anadigm® on the Web at http://www.anadigm.com.
Anadigm® and AnadigmDesigner® are registered trademarks of Anadigm®. All other trademarks appearing herein are the property of their respective owners.
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This is probably the most common question we encounter when selling our product or service. The problem with the question is when it is asked. If the prospect asks too early in the discussion, prior to us discovering the needs, crafting the right solution, demonstrating the benefits, then we can lose the deal before we get started. Eventually the question of cost will come up. What I would like to show you is how to control when you answer the question and give you a higher chance of closing the deal.
The best way to answer the “How much does it cost?” question when it comes too quickly in the discussion is to ask a question back to the prospect. “Right now I’m not sure because we haven’t discussed your needs and desires enough for me to make a good recommendation. In fact, it may be that we don’t have what you really need. So, would it be okay if I asked some more questions in order to be able to find the best solution for you?”
You have asked permission to continue the discussion and by saying that you may not have the solution needed, you have also let the prospect know that you are not going to give them a product that doesn’t work for them.
This is one of the biggest fears people have when making a purchase, especially of a product or service they have never used before. I see this very often with technology products and services. Many times the buyer isn’t sure what they need, how they are going to use it, and if it really is going to help them. Only by asking questions can we help our prospects understand their needs and how our products or services will make their jobs easier.
After you get the okay to continue the discussion, follow-up with some good probing questions to discover what the customer wants to change about their current situation and how they believe your product will fulfill this need.
For example, if we were selling a big screen television, we could ask where the TV was going to be located, how many people would be watching, if they ever had entertainment events at their home where the TV was the center of attention like for the Super Bowl. All of these questions and answers will give you more insight into the usage. Some additional questions could be if the TV was considered a part of the decor or more of a necessary appliance that hopefully fits with the room. Was it going to hang on the wall or be put into an entertainment center?
An additional benefit of asking these types of questions is that you can uncover opportunities. If the prospect talks about how much he enjoys watching movies on the big screen, this opens the door to ask about the sound system. You could offer to provide installation and wiring upgrades to maximize the experience of owning a big screen TV with a movie theater sound system.
Now that you have taken the time to ask all of these questions and gotten the answers, you are ready to have the investment discussion. I recommend making 3 offers which range in price and options based on what you have learned. By doing this you are giving the prospect the ability to stay within their budget while fulfilling their desires for the product. They are the one making the choice giving them power and not feeling that you have pushed a solution on them.
This technique can be used for any product or service and in a face-to-face or a phone conversation. If it is a phone conversation, you will want to offer the 3 options and set a specific time for the prospect to come and see the options for themselves. “Mr. Jones, the three options I think fit your needs the best are Option A for $ 550.00, Option B for $ 650.00 and Option C for $ 800.00. I will set those out for you to look at. Can you come by in the next hour?”
Remember, people don’t like to be sold to but the do appreciate someone who is trying to help solve their problems. Be a problem solver and offer options based on an understanding of the clients needs.
Jody Williams has over 12 years of corporate experience with 3 fortune 100 companies in the industries of banking, energy and telecommunications. He started his business coaching firm to bring his strategic planning and implementation skills to the smaller business owners. He has a desire to help business owners to achieve beyond their wildest imagination and truly create their version of the American Dream.
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) January 27, 2012
One Network Enterprises (ONE), a leading provider of demand driven supply chain solutions in the cloud, is introducing the markets first multi-party Demand Driven Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Financial Planning and Executive Analytics solution.
Organizations having implemented S&OP today continue to struggle with the limitations or traditional software applications and business processes that do not effectively plan sales and operations across organizations within the enterprise and across their trading partners. To overcome these challenges, ONE is delivering a state-of-the-art demand-driven sales and operations planning (DDS&OP) solution, that aligns goals across the multi-party, multi-echelon value network to help organizations and their trading partners improve their financial plans, revenues, reduce operational costs, and effectively meet their customers needs.
ONEs demand-driven S&OP links S&OP plans to your multi-year strategic initiatives to account for the attainment of desired goals. Furthermore, it uses a single sales forecast at the forward most echelon to derive sales and marketing, distribution, production, procurement and financial plans. The single sales forecast can be shaped jointly with your partners providing a single version of the truth (SVOT) within the enterprise and across trading partners. Once the demand has been shaped and agreed upon the system generates order forecasts for each organization and each node in the multi-party, multi-echelon value network, including multi-tier raw material providers. Based on these orders forecasts, the system calculates distribution, transportation, production, and procurement plans, matches demand and supply, computes and bi-directionally propagates all capacity constraints, and synchronizes the plans for the entire network. ONEs real-time incremental planning and execution capability seamlessly puts the plans in action generating detailed, actionable short-term plans to the execution systems.
Most importantly, ONEs demand-driven S&OP delivers a Directional P&L that analyses profitability based on the revenue plans and operations plans for organization to fully understand the effect of their plans. The objective function of DDS&OP is to maximize the revenue and profit subject to the actionable operations plans for all parties in the value network.
“S&OP inherently is a multi-party, multi-echelon activity. Traditional systems can take months to compute and propagate plans across the value chain. One Networks DD S&OP solution does it in a matter of hours or days engaging seamlessly with all internal and external operations. One Network has proven repeatedly that increased business agility is the key to achieving impressive results,” said Greg Brady, One Networks CEO.
Gaining deeper insights and becoming demand-driven through ONEs DDS&OP enhances an organizations ability to effectively manage the complexities of the modern supply chain, offering a superior alternative to traditional systems.
To schedule a demonstration, call us today at (866) 302-1936 or visit us at http://www.OneNetwork.com.
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One Network is the worlds only multi-party, multi-echelon supply chain solution in the cloud. As the leading provider of demand driven supply chain technology solutions, One Networks cloud-based platform enables customers to easily collaborate with all their value chain participants on a single network. With more than 7,000 companies connected, One Networks community based supply chain solutions help customers increase profitability and efficiencies by optimizing their supply chain operations. One Network serves a variety of industries including high tech, retail, consumer products, public sector, automotive, energy, and logistics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, One Network also has offices in Europe and India. For more information, please visit http://www.onenetwork.com.
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NEW YORK, NY, Apr 18, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Fresh Harvest Products, Inc. (otcqb:FRHV) (pinksheets:FRHV) announced today that it has completed the first phase of its Digital Strategy and Social Media Marketing Plan; the re-launch of its …
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Debunking myths about social media and inbound marketing
We're now half way through our ten article series looking at putting together a successful inbound marketing strategy, and only now are we considering social media as part of our plan. Social media can be a terrible waste of time if you don't have a …
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Great wise quotes are a beautiful source of insight and inspiration for life. Such quotes present perspective on how the quotation’s author strove to live their life, how each accomplished what they did, or how the author perceived their existence and world. Memorizing a wise quote is a great means of offering advice or just assessing one of life’s challenge. Below, find a great collection of wise quotes about life.
While I breath, I hope. -Latin Proverb
The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. -Aristotle
My friends are my estate. – Emily Dickinson
As you do to another, expect another to do to you. -Latin Proverb
Without sweat and toil no work is made perfect. -Latin Saying
Be the change you want to see in the world. -Mahatma Gandhi
Sadness flies away on the wings of time. -Jean de La Fontaine
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. -Wise Quotes
The best things in life are not things. -Wise Quotes
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether. –Roy H. Williams
Today is the last day of some of your life. -Anonymous
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times. -Baltasar Gracian
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Franklin
A friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. -Aristotle
You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful, she is beautiful because you love her.
– anynomous
All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. – William Somerset Maugham
Quotes About Beauty remind me its what’s on the inside that counts too.
Heard all the buzz about crowdsourcing? Wonder how you and your company can benefit from the Wiki model? Learn from our speaker who has successfully brought open innovation into science and chemistry. Join us to explore the future of science in a crowdsourced world.
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