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<DIV>After having brainstormed for the past several months about the avenues that are best and ways and means to create a small business out of Asterisk, I have comeup with the following mix of products and services, that may be able to get us where we want to be.</DIV>
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<DIV>A brief summary given below outlines the components for a sustainable small business in VOIP that I want to be a part of and would like to create in the near term. I would like this venture to be in the tristate area and I am looking forward to network with people or organizations who wants to join hands for this proposed venture.</DIV>
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<DIV>An initial contribution to this venture from my associates would be in the range of $100,000 - $150,000. Rest of the money has to be pooled, to make this project a reality.</DIV>
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<DIV>This project would able to employ a staff of 6 with growth at 100% every year for the first few years. Promoters are expected to not avail any compensation in the first year.</DIV>
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<DIV>-----------------------<BR>Business Plan<BR>-----------------------<BR>The two business segments to focus on:</DIV>
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<DIV>Products<BR>--------------<BR>1) Hardware Retail Sales (IP PBX Boxes, MeshBoxes, TalkSwitches, VOIP Phones, Zap Cards etc)<BR>2) Developing an embedded Asterisk Box as SOHO VOIP Solution<BR>3) Developing A Billing, DID Provisioning and GUI Platform for Asterisk <BR>4) Developing a Calling Card Platform based on Asterisk</DIV>
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<DIV>Services:<BR>------------<BR>1) VOIP Groupware Solutions for Corporates.<BR>2) Corporate Messaging, Communications and Call-Center Services<BR>3) Technologies for medical transcription Services<BR>4) Switch partition and Wholesale VOIP Termination Services</DIV>
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<DIV>Revenue Projections for above items in their number order are as under: ( All figures in $US) First 12 Months Period<BR>-------------------------------</DIV>
<DIV>Product Investment Gross Sales Gross Revenue <BR> Required </DIV>
<DIV>1 50,000 200,000 40,000<BR>2 25,000 150,000 30,000<BR>3 50,000 100,000 50,000 <BR>4
40,000 100,000 60,000<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Total 165,000 550,000 180,000</DIV>
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<DIV>Services Investment Gross Sales Gross Revenue <BR> Required </DIV>
<DIV>1 30,000 100,000 70,000<BR>2 75,000 200,000 80,000<BR>3 50,000 100,000 50,000 <BR>4
100,000 2,000,000 100,000<BR>Total 255,000 2,400,000 300,000<BR> <BR>Grand Total: 420,000 2,950,000 480,000<BR></DIV>
<DIV>The strategy is two fold - sell whatever hardware you could get from a VAR relationships from companies, to get the cash flowing., and make a couple of 'disruptive' products to sell. </DIV>
<DIV>We already have several hardware marketing tie ups in place - ATCOM, Cisco, PolyCom, PowerDsine, LinkSys, Digium, Varion, Dell, Wooksung etc.etc. We have identified other Hardware partners we need to tie-up with, to create other Products required for a sustainable small business.</DIV>
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<DIV>We have identified software development partners ( additionally we can avail the help of many talented Individuals and corporates in this list itself - Nicolas Gudino of Flash Panel fame, Areski of the AreskiCC + AsteriskCDR fame etc., whom we can engage for this) and will be able to create the first release version of the services platform within a reasonable 90 days, and get the first revenues from this segment and to keep the business cashflow positive.</DIV>
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<DIV>We have also identified a list of 200 companies ( Some of them are Fortune 50 companies whom I have consulted before ) who will need our services and probably will be able to help us achive the above objectives easiliy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Anyone interested to join this effort may contact me privately. An initial gathering for 'meeting of minds' is slated for either 5th March or 12th March in Central New Jersy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Seshu Kanuri</DIV>
<DIV>732-213-2422(Mobile)</DIV>
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