Key Funding Questions !
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This document provides an overview of funding options for commercial aquaponics businesses. It discusses educating banks and investors about aquaponics, reviewing and confirming business plans, valuing businesses, identifying funding sources like equity, loans, and grants, and negotiating deals. The presentation aims to help entrepreneurs secure funding by outlining their experience, common mistakes, and evaluation criteria like EBIT. It also previews forming a cooperative network to build trust and slowly monetize expertise through low-cost webinars and meetings.
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Key Funding Questions !
- 1. Introduction to: Funding Commercial Aquaponics Presented by: Linkedin Commercial Aquaponics Group The Family Fish Farms Network Inc. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (1) Show Me The Money!
- 2. Our Target Audience Entrepreneurs who have made the critical decision to build and operate a successful commercial aquaponics farm Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (2) WELCOME!
- 3. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (3) Who do you Approach? Job one is not to sell seafood and vegetables – that’s easy! The most challenging job is to sell investors on the validity of investing in aquaponics!
- 4. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (4) Educating Your Bank and Investors Most people think of vegetables coming from gardens and farms with long rows of plants in the ground Hydroponics is accepted but still relatively obscure. Aquaponics is ?
- 5. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (5) 1 • Review and Confirm Your Decision 2 • Audit Your Business Plan 3 • Value Your Business 4 • Identify Sources of Funds 5 • Negotiate The Deal Webinar Objectives
- 6. Today’s Agenda Who do you Approach? What is your ‘Funding’ plan before the Business Plan? The Family Fish Farms Experience Educating your bank or investors Review and Summary What’s Next Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (6)
- 7. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (7) Review and Confirm Decision Sustenance – Subsistence- Commercial? Most Investors Won’t be Interested Profitable AP Farms are Hard to Find Energy Will be Your Biggest Cost Factor After the Business Plan – Funding Plan?
- 8. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (8) Our Company’s Experience The Family Fish Farms Network Inc. Hard Lessons Learned!
- 9. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (9) Hard Lessons Learned Our experience – My Mistakes I am not a grower, investment banker …and not a deal maker Now, after three years… Listen to my advice, please …but make your own decisions
- 10. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (10) Audit Your Business Plan Management – The Key Issue The Business Model Sales, business organization, value chain Competition Financial Pro Forma Assumptions Revenue & Costs
- 11. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (11) Value the Business (Show me the money) How? You Don’t Have a Business The Kahn Academy http://tinyurl.com/nnc5clm Is It a Good Investment? Do the Numbers Work? EBIT of 20% Leverage and Multiples Stock Dilution
- 12. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (12) Identify Sources of Funds (Show me the money) Equity Funding Private vs Public Banks (Assets) Funding Something of Value Partners Active vs Passive Corporate Government
- 13. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (13) Negotiate a Deal (Show me the Money) 1 •My Advice – Hire a Pro •An Investment Banker 2 •…With Investors •Active vs passive partners •Equity and dilution 3 •Banks & Lenders •Interest, lines of credit •Convertible notes 4 •Special Programs •Community Reinvestment Act •CDFI’s, USDA, SBA, VA •Hub Zones, Block Grants •New Market Tax Credits
- 14. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (14) 1 • Review and Confirm You Decision 2 • Audit Your Business Plan 3 • Value Your Business 4 • Identify Sources of Funds 5 • Negotiate The Deal Objectives Review
- 15. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (15) How to Get There From Here? • A SWOT shows… • …lots of weaknesses and threats • There are strengths in numbers • And …this is an opportunity for all • Our Model is a distributive network • Gung Ho! • It means, ‘work together in harmony’
- 16. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (16) Here’s My Thinking (We all gotta eat) Stage One: Build Trust Slowly Monetize ‘The Network” FREE Webinars Continue Low Cost monthly on-line meetings With Shared experts – get discount Stage Two : Build the Network Equity Sharing Structure TBD – Likely a cooperative
- 17. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (17) Top Ten Crowdfunding Sites for Fundraising at Listed by Forbes Kickstarter Razoo Indiegogo Crowdfunder Rockethub Crowdrise Somolend Appbackr AngelList Invested.in Quirky
- 18. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (18) What’s Next? Question? How do we build value and how do we use this group to promote investment in aquaponics? Future Webinar Topics • The potential of CSR (corporate social responsibility) • Vertical growing is urban farming • What is de-coupled aquaponics?
- 19. Commercial Aquaponics © 2015 (19) THANKYOU! Thank you for attending the second session of the Commercial Aquaponics webinar series. We hope it has been enlightening with regard to funding and that you will join us for our next one. A survey will appear next and we hope you will take a few minutes to answer the questions on it. Our experts want to be able to answer all the questions you might have about how to run a successful Aquaponics business. Thank you again.