Make Your Pitch

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Cameron Labrecque hails from Massachusetts and attends High Point University in North Carolina and is the founder of Remember. Remember is a social media app designed for users to tell stories about their life using their mobile devices.

Stories come together with music pictures and audio which form the narrative of life that is used as premier at an end-user funeral.

The Narrative of Life is open for the family to review for 7 days. The family can choose whether a subscription to the content.

The Narrative of Life in a ‘mini-documentary' about the deceased from the time they are born u[p tp the time they pass. Users use the app microphone to record a memory.

The Remember app is segmented into categories. If you are expecting to graduate from high school, college, or facing retirement the Remember app knows what category to present to you so you can begin to tell your story.

The app user clicks on the category that fits their life event and the person begins to tell their story.

Whatever life events happen to the app user, that person begins to tell their story.

Afterwards the person clicks to end the recording. Then they are presented with visuals that relate to the category. The desired visual is selected and the contents along with the story is added to a folder. In this way when the person goes back to watch and listen to the story, their voice would be playing over the pictures and videos. The person will see their face talking about a special moment in their lives as the narrative. The person's face and pictures back up the person's story.

And that is just one story. There are tens and hundreds of stories that a person could tell and share over their lives.

The beauty of having a resource like this is that you and I are learning about people in real-time who are not famous, who do not have camera crews following them around. All we have is them sharing their story in real-time that we can have to keep in our memory and hearts about who that person was and is.

Today we have all these media but nothing to help us remember those we love, who matter to us.

Those digital and physical make up a digital mini-documentary.

Everybody's story matters.

Cameron Labrecque

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Narrative of Life

Life Events

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Landing Pages

Beta Testers

Traction

Funding phase one

Send out stories

Start-up Companies

Entrepreneurship

Investors

Hedge fund managers

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Oveda Handcock,

Business Development & Licensing Officer at Women And Drones, LLC

Ms. Handcock works with disabled veterans, native Americans, Women, Latinos, and Asia Pacific Americans, Single Fathers raising children and need resources. She has helped Hair braiders, beauticians, makeup artists, caterers food handlers, training providers. She also works with Small businesses held by Caucasians, Pacific Islanders, Hispanics, African Americans, Native Americans.

Ms. Handcock's practice has worked with major corporation, builds small business, deposes companies to uncover how money is acquired when working with investigators or very large corporations. A certain percentage of money is set aside for small businesses, people on welfare.

The 8(a) set aside program with the Small Business Administration.

There is an opportunity for all businesses in America

Small business administration certifications looks to work with small businesses.

What is expected of the small business owner when they seek Ms. Handcock's help?

The first things is to evaluate your eligibility for Federal monies. You must have a DUNs number from Dun and Bradstreet. The DUNs number is for your business credit not your personal credit. Dun and Bradstreet is all about business credit. Your personal social security number is not used in determining business credit.

If you are doing business with your social security number this is not good because it means that everything you own personally is at risk.

If a business owner is a solo-preneur or an entrepreneur, the social security number into play

The next step is to apply for an account in the SAM, System Acquisition Management.

LLCs is a Limited Liability Corporation which means the LLC is a corporation.

Grant money does not have to be paid back. Venture Capitalists will eat up the equity you have in your business when you work with them. If your ownership in your company decreases below 51 percent, you then move from business owner to employee. As an employee of the company, you can be dismissed from the company that you started.

Ms. Handcock makes sure that she helps grant recipients maintain communication with the grant provider. The grant receiver receives a schedule of when they should update the grade provider with a progress report of what's been done, send an interim report and final report on how the grant is being applied in the business. Successful grant recipients are certified by their state which can be used as reciprocity in other areas.

Keywords

Intellectual property protection (patents, trademarks and copyrights); 8(a) set-aside; government contracting; value proposition and efficiency analysis of business Grants

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How to construct your Presentation with the Questions investors want to be answered

1. What's the Product or Service?
Investors do not know you, your business, your market. You must give them context about each. Define your product or service in two short sentences.

2. What problem does Product or Service solve?
Successful startups define a problem in the market that, according to Eugene Schwartz who wrote Breakthrough Advertising and defined 5 stages of awareness.

3. Why will the customer buy it?
No amount of gimmickry or marketing can induce a sale without some education about the challenge faced by people in a specific group or state, country or market.

There are conversations with many people to introduce a product and service. You will need to engage your listener, ask open-ended questions to encourage a dialogue. Do not think of this effort as tedious but as an opportunity to build a community of followers and loyal fans of what your startup does. Keep in mind people will buy what they believe they have contributed to.

4. What's unique about the management team?
A Management team is much like having a resource of experienced people of whom you can ask questions, seek guidance and insights as you build your business. You will want to define the functions and roles you need to fill in the areas of operations, production, finance, marketing, human resources and more. A key functional role to fill is the Administrator. This person take a big picture view of the market, the industry and the subsector you fill. This insight will help guide you in your selection of additional team members to invite to join your management team.

5. Do you have an advisory board
An Advisory Board is essential for a startup because the composition can include business executives, scientists, academics, business owners, former startup owners, and entrepreneurs. You want a blend of skilled individuals who bring insight and experience that expand your thinking as you develop the startup from fledgling to a growing and going concern.

6. How does the company generate revenue?
There are two areas in which to think about generating revenue: a business model and a revenue model.
A business model informs the revenue model. The revenue model informs how the company will generate revenue. The how defines how the company will serve its customer base.

7. What traction does the company have?
Startups are either well-funded or bootstrapping their way to consistent revenue. Traction is gained through consistently introducing the startup to the market through channels that expand and extend the reach in a variety of markets where the targets may be found.

8. What revenues have you generated in the last 12 months?
It is essential and critical to the success of your startup to generate revenue. You are selling a product and/or a service. You need to generate consistent sales. A startup that does not generate revenue is a hobby and not a business. Even if the size of the revenue is small, it generates sales. That is an important component in keeping the startup alive and viable.

9. How much money do you need from an investor?
Tally all your costs and expenses, include essential services needed for the business and calculate what your investment will be in hiring help. Aggregate these numbers and add twenty percent to achieve a baseline number of how much of an investment you will need from an investor.

10. How are you going to allocate the funds?
Use your estimates from the previous question to begin defining a percentage allocation per line item. Define the duration as annual, half year or per quarter. Determine from your market research, from input from your boards if your estimates a close to actual need. Modify according to the market reality of your startup.

11. How much equity are you willing to offer?
Here is a step most startup owners fail to consider. An investment in your startup is the equivalent of a loan. Investors expect a return of their investment. You will want to demonstrate your skill in managing resources. Your equity allocation could be a percentage of estimated profits. This is the reason having an experienced finance professional on your advisory board is essential.

12. How does the investor make a return on his investment?
Once again, an experienced financial professional can help define profit potential, the return of investor's investment and a percentage of the profit allocated to return on investment.

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Penuinnow.com

Julius Hudson and Deneyzio LaBoy

Julius Hudson and Deneyzio LaBoy are entrepreneurs, creators and co-founders of Penuin.

Both are unassuming until they begin talking about their innovative creation Penuinnow.com.

Penuin is a talent platform best described as a place for artists to name their price for their artistic work.

Denyzio and Hudson identified a pervasive problem in the entertainment industry for artists and entertainers. There is no real method for artists and entertainers to promote their works to the mass market. According to Denyzio and Julius there is no real way for talent to monetize their work outside of the traditional means of using the entertainment industry.

Laboy and Hudson have skillfully disrupted the entertainment industry through their blend of merging entertainment with ecommerce. After mixing in entertainment and the spice of ecommerce the team sprinkled in a bit of search engine optimization. This is when they saw a surge in their market

The team has also brought in a proprietary secret sauce that allows them to maintain their dominance with transforming performances into products.

Like all great ideas, the duo is experiencing many look-alikes in their space.

Their secret is in how they keep their originality in the market.

What is working in Penuin's favor is Covid 19. Apparently the need for artists in a variety of markets. According to Julius Hudson, you no longer have to wait to find your entrance into the market.

You now have a direct path, a direct connection to people who are interested in what you have to sell. One no longer has to wait for anyone to say your product is viable. The market makes the call.

Artists can now move forward and get their product and their brand into the market place without the hassle and blocks found in entertainment.

Every artist is in control of their pricing, artists get to keep 100% of their profits. Artists negotiate, set the price and penuin's processing fee make all of the next steps possible.

Since launching in April 2020, Penuin has acquired 4,000 users and counting.

It is only a matter of persistence before Penuin becomes a household name.

Find Penuin at Penuinnow.com

Keywords

Entertainment

Brand

Brand building

Artists

Podcasts

Covid-19

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Our guest is George Walton, former Patent Examiner with the USPTO

George Walton has issued over 1,000 patents to the Fortune 500 community and to high profile attorneys with 47 years of experience with the United States Patent Office

Walton takes great pains to assure that your patent application is reviewed fairly, that nothing in your application is in use elsewhere.

George Walton earned an engineering degree speaking at Yale University and has worked with Mobile Oil, General Motors, IBM, General Electric and Caterpillar. Today, Walton follows his passion for small business, the ‘little guy' as he describes his niche.

Listen carefully as George Walton talks to us about the power of secrecy and speaking about your idea in general leaving out specifics. Keeping quiet about your idea is best form of Intellectual Property protection. Acquiring a Non-Disclosure Agreement from the person you want to speak with about your idea is mandatory. If the person will not sign the NDA, you are advised to get up and walk away.

This podcast is presented as a resource for business owners, startups and solopreneurs to help them perceive their business differently.

Your business has never been more vulnerable than it is today because large companies, foreign countries and companies, not only want what you have but to take your work from you without compensation.

You want to protect yourself and what you created and what you own. To do this effectively you want to take some immediate steps to secure your work.

Keep in mind you must protect your business just like you protect your home, your credit and your valuables.

There is more fraud in the world than at any other time in history. If you are not protected, you are at risk and you are vulnerable.

This podcast will give you what IP attorneys will charge high fees to tell you.

You can reach our to George Walton during business hours at 703-798-1021 and www.partsip.com

Keywords:

Patent

Trademark

USPTO

U.S.P.T.O

United States Patent Office

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Capital

Intellectual Assets

Business Ownership

Non-Disclosure Agreement

NDA

Patent Examiner Agent

Patent Agent

Ivy League

Small Business

Startup

Startups

Business Owner

Solopreneur

Patent Categories

Utility Patent

Design Patent

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Make-Your-Pitch

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Judson Walls - Constant Water

The CONSTANT WATER system is simple in design for reliability, safety, and ease of use.

The systems is a Fully automatic operation that allows for uninterrupted water to home or business.

The system is Designed to prevent water exposure to airborne contaminants. The smallest constant water system exceeds government emergency water recommendations for a family of four.

The system allows for hot water consumption as long as your hot water tank contains hot water and it provides water security and peace of mind during inclement weather and natural disasters.

The American water system infrastructure is aging. Water Main breaks occur with some frequency in most cities and now extends into the interior of the country.

Older homeowners who desire to remain in their home are going to constant water because this population perceived the Constant Water system as one that will increase the owner's ability to remain in the home while increasing the lifetime value of their property.

The system expands by using multiple constant water tanks provide increased capacity beyond 120 gallons and can ensure water availability at pressure across a larger facility. The system can also provide water to property outbuildings from a central location.

Constant Water is a Veteran friendly organization that is certified by the Veteran's Administration. Constant Water achieves this distinction through their Water for warriors program that allows direct contributions to families of wounded warriors.

The founder and visionary of Constant Water is on a mission to provide safe affordable water to every corner of the United States. Top this end Judson Walls recently opened a pathway to reach Puerto Rico with his water system that is changing the lives of residents in that area.

Constant Water Offers an easy way to purchase a water system through its direct-to-consumer payment system found on their website. The tanks offered for sale are clearly visible to a buyer so that the prospective buyer can measure the right tank structure for their needs.

What separates Constant Water apart from other systems is their presentation of what they do. Visitors can learn so much about constant water from the many documents available on their website.

Constant Water is located in Warrenton, Virginia. Their selection of programs available covers the essentials anyone will need to design their type of water system. Those essential are designed for Single Family Residential home-owners, Multifamily residential, commercial and healthcare facilities.

You can reach Constant Water by phone at 540-347-3440

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Capital Investment

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Market Capitalization

Preparedness

Unserved markets

Water insecurity

Power outages

Hurricanes

Floods

Aging water system Infrastructure

Make Your Pitch podcasts announces "Launch"

Co-Host, Christopher Knight and Ellen J Harris announce the launch of Make Your Pitch podcast.

The podcast is designed for Startup Companies to meet investors.

The team invites Startups to participate if they can demonstrate a product or service that provides true value as well as being a market disruptor.

If the startup has generated revenue, has a list and has their numbers in order, according to Knight and Harris, this is the criteria Investors want to see. Investors care about the return of their investment.

The podcast will showcase for the audience what constitutes a good startup candidate.

Harris defines the category of investors as Venture Capitalists, Hedge Fund investors, Private Equity, Angel Investors and Private Investors.

Startup Companies are not limited to technology. Most importantly, Startups must have a product or service that has commercial viability.

Candidates go to http://Make-Your-Pitch.com and apply for consideration to be a guest on the Make Your Pitch podcast.

If you are a startup firm, or, you have an existing company looking to add an additional service model in your business, that addition to your business is a potential candidate for Make Your Pitch.

Fortune 500 companies call their startups ‘spinoffs'. Think of General Electric and Synchrony Financial. This is a moment where GE's strategic business unit GE Capital was perceived as a bank. GE then spun off GE Capital into Synchrony.

This example will help listeners and viewers think of their business differently.

Make Your Pitch is compared to Shark Tank. Harris says we are different from Shark Tank. We do not rip guests but provide them a formula from which they can build and improve what they have with the proper presentation.

We then invite them to come back and present their startup-firm in a different framework.

Not all Startup Companies will have success but if the team believes in their Startup-Firm, believes they can make a real difference in the world, then Make Your Pitch is the right place to showcase your value to Investors.

“Do You Have What it Takes”

Apply at https://Make-Your-Pitch.com

Best of Success to All,

Ellen J Harris

Christopher Knight