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Serving Entrepreneurs & Investors since 2004
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Entrepreneurs participating
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These companies are among the most innovative with the most exciting go to market strategies. They
are working with LAUNCHfn on capital strategy, business models, cashflow strategies and access to capital. As companies
are pre-qualified to pitchto angel investors that attend the Atlanta Angel Investor Club - Innovative
Investor Group meeting, their description and profiles are uploaded here. The most recent presenters are at the top.
There are many more companies working with LAUNCHfn on strategy, preparation, debt financing and investor relations
that may not be listed here.
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iPlan.com
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iPlan.com Industry: Web Application / Financial Sector Stage: Early Stage IPLAN
is a simple to use, online environment that delivers a new financial solution that helps increase the confidence of individuals
when making investment and planning decisions. IPLAN.com is the first firm to score a financial plan. Our scoring
method takes into account every decision required to develop a sound financial plan and creates individualized simple action
steps for improvement. IPLAN focuses on the individual’s perspective by: Plan Everything: our solution
takes into account a holistic approach, from investing to insurance, from legal needs to debt. Sell Nothing: IPLAN
does not manage money, create products or generate income based on transactions or individual actions. Keep it Simple:
Easy to sign-up and manage a plan through an iterative process couple with an intuitive interface. Consumers end up
with a personalized financial assessment they understand. They are equipped to go forward with their financial planning.
Multiple revenue streams are created.
Send an email requesting more info
click here to download executive summary
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Bob Knows Phones! Industry: Retail / Franchise Stage: Early Stage
Bob Knows Phones is capitalizing on the
shifting consumer attidude to Fix rather than Replace smart phones. Bob Knows Phones has created
a well branded and efficient repair vs replace retail offering. Following in the path blazed by "Geek Squad"
that changed how we thought about repairing a computer, and utilizing all the guerrilla marketing tactics available to them
on a limited budget, they have perfected their business processes, marketing tactics and operations to reach cash flow positive
in less than a year a their first location. With virtually no competition with the same branding and recognition and efficient
operation, the timing is perfect for this business to expand. Initially they will expand to 5 stores in the Atlanta
Metro area and then proceed with a regional expansion to 100 stores in 36 months and are seeking financial partners to facilitate
this growth.
Send an email to request more information
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Synkup Industry: Mobile & Web Application
Stage: Startup Synkup
offers mobile and web solution breaks new ground as a personal scheduling assistant with all-inlcusive, insider access to
your calendar and your people. It enables the user to "Synk-up" with friends, family, and personal contacts
regarding activities, appointments, and action items. Fully developed and ready for deployment.
Send an email to request more information about Synkup
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GrandCamp Industry: Gaming/Entertainment
Stage: Early Stage GrandCamp Adventures
has developed an innovative and integrated themed "backyard adventures" for Grandparents and Grandchildren to connect
and bond in ways that seem out of reach in today's high-tech, fastpaced world. GrandCamp Adventures' products and servics
are carefully crafted to create the space and conditions for building treasured relationships. Sold through an online
commerce site, the word is spreading and retailers are asking to carry the products. Strategic plans are in place ot expand
beyond traditional activity sets to rich media, entertainment and travel offerings.
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IP Resources International Industry: Healthcare/BioMed Stage: Early Stage
IP
Resources is an intellectual property management firm that commercializes compelling healthcare-related technologies on a
global basis. Our management team brings over 100 years of combined experience in finance, marketing, and sales. Our professionals
have developed strategic relationships with companies around the world who are actively seeking new healthcare-related technology
and products.
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Send an email to request more information
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URecruitMe.com Industry: Web platform Stage: Early Stage. Urecruitme.com has developed a solution that matches Employers and Jobseekers quickly, directly, and
cost efficiently, eliminating the need to use Job Boards or Staffing Agencies, and reducing the recruitment lifecycle by an
average of 3 weeks. After two years of development and testing, it was launched in Atlanta to impressive results. In
just a short few months over 4000 subscribers have posted their qualifications and multiple businesses and institutions have
signed up to fill job openings.
Request info about URecruiteMe
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Guardian Lion Wireless Industry: Wireless, Consumer Product Stage: Early Stage GuardianLion
Wireless (hereafter GLW) has developed, trademarked and patented the LEO®, which leverages a fully functional life-saving
personal emergency response wristwatch with GPS locator, alert, cell phone and 9-1-1 response system technologies to be worn
by people 6 - 75+ years old in various markets and applications. When purchased, this 1” square device can provide individuals
and families assurance that a “guardian” is always within reach in key emergency situations via a third-party
24/7 emergency response service, a 24/7 internet-based tracking software system and a two-way communication service offered
through a major telecommunications carrier. With an experienced management team and barrier rich product offering, this
is a company to watch.
Request info for LEO Guardian Wireless
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DSGM Systems Industry: Medical Device
Stage: Start Up - Commercialization
DSGM Systems is a medical device company whose mission
is to commercialize diagnostics that improve the health and lifestyle of diabetics. The first product to be commercialized
by DSGM Systems is a highly accurate, non-invasive, needle-free device that provides continuous measurement of blood sugar
levels. DSGM's Glusonic Alert alerts users to changes in their blood sugar levels during the daily activities - shopping,
sleeping, driving, exercising, etc. and alert them when their levels change to rapidly or fall below safe levels. With
27 million Americans (~10%) and another 79 million considered pre-diabetic, the market for blood glucose monitoring supplies
is projected to be $3.7 Billion by 2015.
Send an email to request more information on DSGM
click here to open exec sum DGSM
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BION Document Tracking Industry: Technology - Security
Stage: Early Stage Bion's mission is to be a foundational architecture across all industries that recognize the need and
value in tracking electronic records, files and documents - who opens, where they open, who sends, who receives - no matter
where the document originated, was saved or ends up. Those who are best at using technology to track, manage, sell &
secure their business - win. BION SmartFile™ Reporting gives its users a powerful competitive edge. The centerpiece of BION's
technology is the invisible digital "tag". Once inserted into any digital document or file, that
electronic file becomes a "smart file". The footprint of the technology is very small, virtually invisible, accurate
and is not permission-based. It works across the most advanced firewalls and active malware systems.
Send an email to request more information about BION Tech
click here to download pg 1 of Exec Sum
click here to download pg 2 exec sum
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INCA,
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International Nutraceutical Company of America (INCA) Industry: Bio Med Stage: Early Stage
INCA develops and markets natural products that have been shown, in formal scientific tests, to improve their users’
health. INCA's first product is Revalife™, a glucosamine cream for the treatment of osteoarthritis that delivers 50X
more glucosamine to the affected areas than any other product on the market. Osteoarthritis (OA) is an incurable, debilitating
joint disease caused by the deterioration of joint cartilage. Symptoms include localized pain, inflammation, reduced
mobility, and deformity, requiring sufferers to alter and manage their lifestyles to prevent further deterioration. Many studies
have shown that glucosamine reduces OA joint pain and inflammation. Moreover, several studies have found that glucosamine
prevents further joint space narrowing in OA sufferers. Over 23 million Americans have OA and they spend over $6.5 billion
annually on products for treating it. Revalife is a break through medical treatment because of the unique proprietary formula
that effectively delivers the glucosamine unlike no other internal or topical solution on the market to directly treat the
impacted areas.
Send an email to request more information
click here to download executive summary
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OhMyGov! Industry: Web Platform for Communication
Analytics Stage: Early Stage
OhMyGov Inc. is a VA-based media and technology firm. They provide SaaS for measuring and improving political communications,
tracking political dialogue, and analyzing public sentiment as found in public comments across the Internet. Their innovations
include the ability to monitor information as it spreads across the Internet, track reactions of the public to events, and
help predict elections and outcomes of communication campaigns. They were initially funded by a National Science Foundation
grant, continued development with angel investment and revenues. Actively deployed and used by a number of government
agencies, political candidates and special interest groups, they are rapidly gaining clients that realize the OhMyGov platform
and analytical toolset is a key to managing and monitory perceptions and impressions on the Internet in the world of public
commentary.
Send an email to request more information
click here to download exec summary
Click to hear interview on Compassionate Capitalist Radio Show (part 2)
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The Venue Network Industry: Virtual Web Interactive Training and Collaborative Platform Stage:
Early Stage Company The Venue Network has delivered to the market, VenueGen. VenueGen is the
next generation platform for completely immersive online learning. Deployed as a browser plug-in, VenueGen users are
up and running in about a minute without any special hardware or cameras; and they immediately experience nearly all
the benefits of a face to face gathering. Unlike all the other virtual meeting modalities (gotoMeeting, Webex,
Skype etc), VenueGen empowers users to see who's talking and to whom comments are directed, and their physical cues, as they
interact as if they are in the same room with each other through the humanization of their avatars. They can spread
out their content from each participant or speaker on larger viewers as if there are multiple screens or white boards in the
room, and collaborate in ways that have not been possible online before now. VenueGen minimizes operational overhead,
increases accessibility to customers and staff, and delivers an engaging, personal telepresence-like experience yet, with
the practical usability and low-cost of basic web collaboration tools. Fully functioning and deployed in a number of
blue-chip corporate settings, VenueGen is poised to be a category killer with this significant advancement in technology.
click here to download exec summary
Click to send email to request more info
Click to hear interview with company on Compassionate Capitalist Radio Show, Pt 1
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DreamBoats - OceanQuest Industry: Shallow Water Recreational Craft Voyage to Navigate The World Stage: Early Stage DreamBoats manufactures a flat boat that draws less than 3 inches of water to navigate through
shallow waters found in marshes, low tide, and inner-coastal waterways. As part of the plan to prove the stability,
reliability and maneuverability of this water craft, DreamBoats took the challenge and succeeded in breaking world records
for first cross to Bermuda in record time. Then the stepped up to Cross The Atlantic Ocean
in their Intruder-21ft Flat Boat traveling from Tampa, FL to Frankfurt, Germany in record time.
They are preparing for the next challenge of breaking the speed record to navigate the world in the Oceans Quest Race Around
the World. With this recognition and the revenues from the expedition, they will begin mass production of their Flat
Boat and fulfill their pent up demand for boats.
click here to download executive summary
Send email to request meeting or information
Visit DreamBoats website to learn more.
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MySkoopz, Inc Industry: Consumer Product Stage: Early Stage Company
MySkoopz, Inc. developed
an all-natural sugar substitute, skoopz®, made not from sugar cane but fom other natural botanical
products, in response to the rapidly growing demand for an alternative 0-calorie sweetener free of chemicals and synthetics.
skoopz® is diabetic-friendly, tastes better than any other sugar substitute on the market, has no aftertaste.
It's low cost of productions makes it available so consumers for less than the other natural sweeteners and sugar/artifical
sweetner hybrids currently on the market. The demand for the product and predictable success of this company is evident
in its penetration into multiple retail chains and stocked in over 300 stores in just months after its initial launch into
the market.
Click here for corporate website and free product trial
click here to download exec summ
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Atlanta Bewing Company (RedBrick Ale) Industry: Beverage
/ Consumer Product Stage:
Expansion Stage Company
RedBrick
Ale Brewing Company has a rich history of producing award winning craft beers, sold and distributed in the Southeast.
As one of 6 Southern Craft Breweries, Atlanta Brewing Company is enjoying an increased demand as awareness spreads about the
quality and tastiness of their special crafted beers. With expanded capacity and renewed marketing focus, they
are expanding their sales and distribution outside of Georgia and are enjoying record growth in sales as a result. This
is an unique opportunity to be a silent partner in a respected local company poised for tremendous growth in the coming years.
RedBrick Brewing Company Website
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Loyalty Lane, Inc.
Industry: Saas & Digital Marketing Spaces Stage Emerging Growth We have
a proven track record and solution delivery model currently implemented in nearly 200 retail locations and growing at 30%
per year. Further demonstrating our potential for market dominance, we maintain a 99% customer retention rate. We have multiple warehouse distributors pushing our solution to their retailers. We
have developed our software and we own all our technologies. Our gross-profit margins are 85% and our EBITDA now is
18% and is on track to be 30-35% for maximum valuation prior to going public or selling. Our annualized recurring revenues
are now over of $1 million and growing at 300%. Loyalty
Lane has been developing our software solution and delivering it to the market place to capture and process POS transactions,
provide SaaS reporting web-portals and manage ancillary marketing services for retailers for over 5 years. Request a Meeting by clicking here...
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Stay Put Fishing Systems, Inc Industry: Consumer Products / Recreation Stage: Early Stage Stay
Put Fishing Systems (SPFS) has developed and commercialized an effective fixed pole anchor system for shallow water fishing
boats. The product launched in Q4 2009 and has received wide acceptance in the boating and fishing communites across North
America. The aftermarket for boating and fishing products is $45 Billion. With strategies for rapid deployment
and national brand awareness, SPFS is excited to have dealers in 16 states and Canada
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Q Care International, LLC
Industry: BioMed Device Stage: Early Stage Q Care has developed
a proprietary system to safely, and conveniently remove the needle from a syringe to render a contaminated needle harmless.
Over 267,000 people are accidently "stuck" by carelessly discarded needles costing $175 Million annually
to care for those who contract serious illnesses as a result of an unintended prick of a contaminated needle. Q Care
offers two models. One for home use intended for diabetics who need to use and safely discard multiple needles each
day. The other is for commercial use in medical office settings. Pending legislation would require improvide
disposal methods and provide medicare funding for the Q Care products.
click here to download fexec summary
Send an Email to Request more information.
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Real Professional Network
Industry: Commercial Real Estate Stage Emerging Growth REAL
Professionals Network, LLC (RPN) is a membership network for independent commercial real estate companies that helps them
make and keep more money. Members subscribe to an online web environment for secure lead exchange and referral
management. The commercial real estate industry is highly fragmented. Approximately 90% of all commercial real
estate firms are small companies, but they conduct the majority of all commercial real estate business. RPN provides
a valued forum to leverage their specialized expertise(s), contacts, and collective size. Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Click here for RPN Investor Profile
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TenderCare Beds
Industry: Furniture Manufacturing Stage: Early Stage Our
Goal is to Help Millions of Families "Take the "Hospital" out of The Hospital Bed!"
And help the 55 million caregivers take the "Sterile Institutional" look out of their loved one's or residents'
room. TenderCare Bed's core product is a patent pending furniture-style headboard / footboard set for hospital beds in private
homes and long term care facilities. Quite simply, it is a cosmetic enhancement to the unattractive construction ofa
functional hospital bed. It is an affordable way for an individual caring for an elderly or seriously ill person in
their home to have both function and beauty; and a convenient way that institutional facilities to "remodel" their
long term care facilities to be more "home like". Request a Meeting by clicking here...
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ServusXchange
Industry: Construction (Technology) Stage: Early Stage ServusXchange's MyOnlineToolBox™ is an
Internet-based business-to-business (B-2-B) and business-to-consumer (B-2-C) application that allows contractors in repair
and remodeling to manage front office and back office processes. We help contractors find work, manage work, and collect
money. With the slowdown in the housing market, people are more likely to keep their existing home and maintain it rather
than buy a new home. The target markets of our platform are the two million small mobile contractors servicing the sector,
target advertising for product manufacturers who want to sell to contractors and homeowners, and the $200 billion in transactions
between them all. In 2008 MyOnlineToolBox™ was awarded a Top 10 Small Business Innovator Award by Dell
followed by a 2009 Forbes America's Most Promising Company Award. NOW Featured in August 2010 issue of Entrepreneur Magazine.
Click here to View ServusXchange's Investor Profile
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ElderHope
Investements, LLC
Industry: Assisted Living
Industry: Facility under contruction
EHI develops assisted living
facilities which specialize in dementia care for the elderly. The growing number of elderly afflicted with Alzheimer
& Dementia is staggering. Recent studies indicate 1 in 8 over the age of 65 are diagnosed as such, growing to a
shocking 50% by the time a person reaches age 85. At national level, 7000 of our aging populous turn 85 each day.
There is a severe under-met need (and demand) in the marketplace for safe and specialized long term care. Our
initial target market is within the Greater Atlanta area in Gwinnett County. The Hope Assisted Living and Memory
Care Facility will be located in Lawrenceville, Georgia to serve a 20 mile square area with an estimated 5000 afflicted
with some form of dementia. The facility will have 4 wings for staged transitional care, offering 64 private bedrooms.
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Click here for EHI Investor Profile
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I-guide Robotics, Inc.
Industry: Technology Stage: Early Stage I-guide Robotics has developed an autonomous robotic navigation system that involves
teaching a vehicle to follow a path by driving it one time. In subsequent trips, you place the vehicle near the start of the
path and the vehicle repeats the path it was taught without an operator. We have chosen lawn mowers as the first commercial
application of this system.
Click here to View I-guide Robotics Company Profile
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P2P Cash
Industry: Banking Stage: Early Stage Outside of the U.S. more people have cell phones than bank accounts and virtually everything is paid
for in cash. P2P Cash's unique, proprietary system (patent-pending in several countries) accomplishes VISA-style clearing
at a fraction of the cost and significantly less risk than VISA credit transactions. Retailer enrollment is free and
includes FREE Universal Payment Gateway ( UPG ) software turning any retailer cellphone into a combination
Point of Sale (POS)/ATM/Western Union terminal. The subscriber's cell phone takes on the characteristics of a debit
card to securely store their personal data for authorized access to funds. Our system allows ANY Retailer
to securely disburse/accept consumer funds on behalf of ANY Bank and/or ANY Carrier , regardless
of the mobile wallet technology they employ. The recent acquisition of TreasureCom and strategic partnerships with retailers and micro-finance providers to millions
of customers sets the stage for massive near simultaneously adoptions on a worldwide basis .
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Micro Technology International, Inc. (MTI)
Industry: Retail Stage: Emerging Growth
MTI provides software technology and e-Commerce solutions for small and medium businesses in the retail sector that
integrates the management of their online sales environment with their offline retail store environment.
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four year relationship with eBay, initially as an authorized developer that grew into a strategic relationship, produced two
software solutions Brick 'n ClickTM and Back Office LiveTM for eBay.
These two solutions were specifically developed for the "eBay e-tailer"(eBay Sellers and eBay retailers)
that needs an integrated solution to manage the financial operation of their auction site, online store, or integrate with
their offline retail store operations seamlessly.
Click here for MTI Investor Summary
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Play Golf Planet Industry:
Web Community Stage: Early Stage Web community
for golf fans and golf course managers alike. Golf Courses gain a means to market and sell unused tee times and interact
directly with golf fans in a more personal way than their traditional information centric web site. Golf Fans join to
see the golf courses they want to play in virtual video tours and to schedule tee times for golf courses in their destination
locations. They have fun comparing scores with other golfers at those destination courses and to interact with the pros
and trainers associated with those golf courses. Filled with rich media and content for golf players and fans
to join the community. They have gained the support and endorsements of golf pros and key leaders in the industry
and many of the top golf courses are signing up in anticipation of their full market launch in spring 2010 http://PlayGolfPlanet.com
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Click here to to view Investor Profile
Radio Interview: Listen Now!
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NuVue Therapeutics (NuVue): Industry: Biotech and Medical Device Early Stage
NuVue Therapeutics, Inc.
(NuVue) is a privately held, biotechnology driven/medical device Company that has developed a totally innovative and disruptive
Site-Specific Regimen of Cancer Therapy for soft tissue cancers. Its products are designed to offer a completely new proprietary
method of site-specific focal delivery of microencapsulated chemotherapies into cryothermally sensitized malignant tissues
through its own patented consumable devices.
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Click here to view NuVue's company profile
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ONEPAK Greentech Management Industry: Cleantech Logistics Systems Stage: Early Stage ONEPAK, Inc. is an environmental logistics technology
company, specializing in the new regulatory-driven niche of electronic waste management. The Company manages nationwide
packing, tracking, and transportation of used computers and other electronics for reuse and recycling, as well as secure management
of hard drives containing sensitive data.
OnePak's primary client markets are computer and electronics manufacturers,
technology remarketers and recyclers, and equipment leasing entitities. The Company's cleantech logistics technologies
and services help businesses comply with new "green" regulatory mandates and security issues involved in the safe
handling and ecological disposal of obsolete electronics.
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Radio Interview: Listen Now!
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Valt-X Industry: Security Computer High Tech Chips Stage: Emerging Growth Valt.X Technologies develops
computer ultra security chips, add-on security controllers and cyber secure storage subsystems. The Valt.X SFIRE Ultra Security
Chip secures desktop, notebook and server computers with absolute certainty, allowing computer users to use the internet without
fear that their computer systems will be compromised. We believe our technology solves the worldwide endpoint computer security
problem. Valt.X has 20 Patents granted in USA, Canada, Europe, China and Taiwan and 40+ additional applications in process.
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
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Kiz Toys Industry: Consumer Goods > Toys Stage: Start up
Kiz Toys is a revolutionary toy company focused on the interaction and safe integration between virtual environments and
traditional toys (i.e. cars, dolls, etc).
Our strategy is Innovation. Build a brand of trust for parents. Parents
allow children to access internet. Children access virtual world. Virtual world grows into a protected on-line community.
Create additional products and services to enhance community. Revenue is comprised of retail sales (multi-units/child), product
line sponsorships (5-Year), online gaming & parental supervision services (subscription), virtual world purchases (transactional).
Click here to review Kiz Toy's profile. Request a Meeting by clicking here...
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2 Chicks with Chocolate Industry: Retail Food & Entertainment Stage: Early Stage
Stage one of the launch is almost complete as 2 Chick With Chocolate
has gained a large customer following in the Northeast for their custom chocolate gifts and unique catering experiences.
They are poised to execute on Stage two plans for a unique new concept in retail chocolate: Think Willie Wonka meets Build
a Bear. 2 Chicks with Chocolate's will open their flagship store in New Jersey to ensure success from their large
and growing customer base. With a integrated marketing model of retail locations and web based customer loyalty and
ongoing revenue streams, they will expand into other markets in Stage 3 of their rollout. Their research and market
strategies are solid and with an impressive management and advisory team, this is a company to watch. http://2chickswithchcocolate.com
Request a Meeting by clicking here...
Listen to them talk about their business model with talk host Karen Rands on SPEC Talk Radio Show
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