BackBone Inc. Announces Startup 1.0: Complete Business Plan Development Program for Emerging High Tech Companies

 High Tech and Financial Modeling Expertise Provides Startups with Affordable "Platform" for Investment and Business Growth
 
BackBone, Inc. (BBI) announces Startup 1.0, providing emerging high-tech companies or "dot coms" with an exhaustively researched, cogently presented business plan and variable, fully integrated financial model.

"Startup 1.0 combines BBI's  industry saavy, high tech expertise and forecasting methodologies, which are specifically structured for Internet-based business models. The program  can also facilitate the development of an investor presentation.

"Startup 1.0 brings together all the elements a high tech entrepreneur needs to  accelerate the delivery of a concept to market or secure needed growth capital,"  said BackBone President Charles Epstein. "Startup 1.0 is the result of our  experience with emerging, dynamic high tech startups; we work within the entrepreneur's budget, offering quick turnaround on  competitive, investment-worthy, Internet-based businesses."
 
Startup 1.0 integrates the following components*:

• Development of business narrative that includes Executive Summary,Competitive Landscape, Market Differentiators, Strategic Position, Marketing and Sales Plan.
  
  
• Design of investment grade financial models for development stage Internet companies.
  
  
• Preparation of investor presentation.

*Cients may engage the full Startup 1.0 program, or select any combination of the components listed above.


Startup 1.0 features financial models that are adaptable to ever-changing business environments and project the effects of various growth assumptions on the company's income statement, balance sheet and cash flows. They serve as the basis of valuation of a company as well as providing management and potential investors with a "road map" against which to measure future performance. Additionally, they can maximize the amount of investment funds received while minimizing the price, in terms of equity, that a company will have to surrender in exchange for capital.

Given the potential impact of a custom-designed financial model on a company's ability to raise capital, it is one of the best investments a company can make. Startup 1.0 provides a valuable service that jump-starts innovative companies and puts them on the fast track to success.

Clients include such dynamic dot.com startups as dotcomprinters, Bthere.net, Cybermedia, Vhours and more.

Startup 1.0 will be made available directly to high tech entrepreneurs and business start-ups, and through "OEM" partnerships with investment and Venture Capital funds, law firms and accounting firms with technology practices.

Please contact us for additional details.