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Empowering the next generation of builders Potential Strategic Partners Strategic partners are key to growing quickly! Build-It-Yourself will invest significantly in developing partnerships that address our distribution, infrastructure and fulfillment needs. Strategic partners are key to our exit strategy!
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Empowering the next generation of builders Publishers Build-It-Yourself proposes a partnership with traditional publishers that will: Potential Distribution Strategic Partners 1.Meet the strong demand from kids and their parents to learn 21 st century skills. 2.Meet the need many publishers have to monetize their Web presence.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Publishers Potential Distribution Strategic Partners The Build-It-Yourself project of the month comic book series drives multiple, recurring revenue streams including, subscriptions to online webcast workshops, embedded advertising, and the sale of parts, tools, and supplies.
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Empowering the next generation of builders After-school Programs Sylvan, Kaplan and Bright Horizons each operate over 600 after-school centers. The Build-It-Yourself online laboratory would enable after-school programs to: Potential Distribution Strategic Partners 1)Scale efficiently. 2)Generate multiple recurring revenue streams. 3)Develop on-going @home relationships.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Potential Fulfillment Strategic Partners On-line Fulfillment of Parts, Tools and Supplies A Build-It-Yourself after-school program must order $1500+ in parts, tools, supplies and software to start. New Build-It-Yourself members may order from $50 to $300 in parts, tools, supplies and software. After initial investments, Build-It-Yourself projects will drive customers to restock supplies and buy new tools and construction sets.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Potential Fulfillment Strategic Partners On-line Fulfillment of Parts, Tools and Supplies
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Empowering the next generation of builders Potential Strategic Partners Infrastructure Partners Build-It-Yourself will work with infrastructure partners to: 1)Create a network of college student specialists. 2)Offer online collaboration platforms. 3)Offer e-commerce and fulfillment.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Value to Sales Ratio Sources: Fidelity as of Sep 2007 http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=31345 http://www.thealphamarketer.com/2007/08/club_penguin_has_grown_329_fro.html
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Empowering the next generation of builders Potential Infrastructure Strategic Partners Webcast Infrastructure Google purchased Marratech in early 2007. Marratech has been judged best in class among numerous Webcast platforms including WebEx, Horizon Wimba and Elluminate. Marratech provided free service to Build-It-Yourself for over a year. Build-It- Yourself was a valuation/reference account for Marratech because of the research it is doing in collaboration with MIT. Build-It-Yourself will explore development and distribution agreements with Marratech/Google to integrate products like Google Talk and ThinkTank.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Software publishers Build-It-Yourself is exploring a partnership with Microsoft. A senior scientist at Microsoft is an investor in Build-It-Yourself and has offered to make introductions to several groups at Microsoft whose interests would be advanced by the Build-It-Yourself program including: Xbox MS Robotics Studio The Gates Foundation MS HR Dept Potential Distribution Strategic Partners
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Empowering the next generation of builders Publishers McGraw Hill asked Build-It-Yourself to write a proposal for a robotics book as part of their successful Evil Genius series. Build-It-Yourself proposes a partnership with traditional publishers that will: Potential Distribution Strategic Partners 1.Meet the strong demand from kids and their parents to learn 21 st century skills. 2.Meet the need many publishers have to monetize their Web presence.
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Empowering the next generation of builders Manufacturer Build-It-Yourself is exploring a partnership with iRobot to develop projects around the iRobot Create. The Create ($200) is a robotics platform based on the Roomba for the hobby market. iRobot asked Build-It-Yourself to build a copy of the Robotic Receptionist we developed at the Greater Lawrence Technical School which they said they would like to put in their lobby. Potential Distribution Strategic Partners
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