Intoduction to Practical Visions

Practical Visions ...

...is an affiliation of experienced semiconductor executives that work with early stage high tech start up companies to confirm that what is being done is Practical and will achieve the desired result - their Visions.

Most technically driven entrepreneurial companies are created by people with an excellent engineering background. However, skills and experience covering sales, marketing, operations and management of a company are often lacking to some degree. All essential components of a company destined to be successful.

Access to and provision of these skills is exactly what Practical Visions provides.

Practical Visions will assess that all ingredients are in place to maximise the chances of achieving what are often lofty and ambitious visions in the shortest time. The focus is on the technical proposal - has the development route and the intended market been carefully and thoroughly assessed and is a business plan in place to support this.

Should ingredients need adding or strengthening then Practical Visions will propose how this can be achieved in a way that is acceptable and allows for existing constraints - time limits, available skill sets and resources including people and finances.

Practical Visions also provides contacts to organisations and individuals that provide support to early stage companies - incubators, business support organisations, sources of funding from grants to investors, partners and potential customers.

Practical Visions is the ideal partner to match the raw ambition of entrepreneurs.

Here are examples of what Practical Visions does.

 

  • A review of the business proposition

  • An assessment of the existing development and deployment plan

  • Identification of the next steps needed to develop and launch the product

  • Assistance in gaining funding

  • Drafting of essential company documentation

  • Guidance in developing marketing, sales and business plans

  • Building the first prototype and taking to production

  • Contacts to people for the company to engage with that have the appropriate skills

  • Identification of suppliers to provide the needed materials and services

  • Introduction to customers in the relevant markets around the world

If you are, or know of, a technology based start-up then please consider contacting Practical Visions.