Fund allocation from money lender The idea is not to perform a full risk assessment or due diligence study. Indeed, it is to deliver an ORE based simplified functional a priori analysis for each company which allows comparisons, bench-marking for Fund allocation from money lender. The ORE based simplified functional analysis is scalable. It allows a company to opt to get deeper in their risks analysis to further enhance their chances of success. Additionally, one can use the analyses for…
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Business startups success show stoppers and tolerable risks This is a follow up on last week’s post showing how ORE can evaluate business startups success, show stoppers and tolerable risks. Indeed, ORE showed quantitatively where the a priori: “party-breakers”, “underlying assumptions” as well as “key success elements” were in each case. Thus it allows to avoid those pitfalls. The success and failure probabilities were in good agreement with a Kaufmann Foundation study. For the portfolio analysis we have now to look at…
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Startups investors and money lenders asked us two questions. Based on our risk assessment and management experience, is ORE capable of: predicting business startups 3 financing rounds success? finding ways to reduce the risks from inception? We derived a subset from ORE (Optimum Risk Estimates, ©Riskope) and deployed it on 7 companies. The companies are at different maturity stages. They are active in different spaces in three countries (Canada, Italy, Switzerland), namely: Company Country Space Startup #1 Canada Networking hardware…
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Testing Innovation Potential In Startups We read/hear a lot of talking about “disruptive innovation” ideas. Many of these disruptive innovations, however, seem to be linear extensions of an extant solution, say a less polluting engine, a better lasting battery or more functional accessory, a new, stronger, easier to use app. Oftentimes it is like no-one has really asked the developer or themselves if the innovation actually was disruptive before using the oh so fashionable adjective. Voices are raising (for example:…
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