Small
Business Development Incubator
(SBDI)
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Small Business Development Incubator, (SBDI) is a modular business development
service that is attached to shared-office-facilities. SBDIs are excellent for
small and home-based businesses that need part-time support.
The
Fast Track Business Development Program builds business models and franchises
for small and home based business owners. It
certifies a special class of model and/or franchise used exclusively for equity
funding. Certified business models are built in development incubators, at the
request of concept owners and/or potential investors. Developing a business
model around a concept is the best way for a start-up business venture to obtain
equity funding, in the post Internet boom-era, entrepreneurs who are seeking
venture funding with a third party verified business model, and a performance
record, stand a better chance of attracting venture capital.
The
investment community now gives a business venture less than three years to show
a profit. Therefore, a successful business model or franchise must be built on a
growth platform where it can receive additional assistance when needed.
Merrill
Lynch, the investment brokerage house is now funding ideas originating from its
more than 70,000 employees. They have selected Arthur Anderson Consulting as
their incubator development team to build their third party verified business
models for the project. However, the average small business cannot afford to
enroll their business venture into the Anderson Incubator Program.
The Lynch Merrill program signals that there is a shortage of good
business models that can be turned into Initial Public Offering (IPO) for Wall
Street, and other stock exchange around the world. Most small business owners
can’t afford Author Anderson; therefore they turn to a Small Business
Development Incubator to get the kind of business model that will be successful
beyond the start-up stage.
Millions of dollars in equity
financing await young entrepreneurs who are willing to build business models
around their concepts and ideas, before they apply for investment funds. The
Fast Track Program includes a Venture Capital Bank that will have more than 100
investment funding sources for small businesses with certified business models.
Therefore, entrepreneurs who want to start and grow a business will no longer
have to search endlessly for venture capital. However, to get private venture
funding new entrepreneurs must be willing to treat their business enterprises as
investments, with short-term growth goals, and must agree in advance to take
their venture public, using an Initial Public Offering (IPO) or make the
business available for sale within five years.
Even though the standard for starting a business is getting higher, the
access to equity funding has been lowered.