For Growing
Companies... That
Change the World SM

An entrepreurial community.

A revolutionary new "efficient" marketplace.

Bringing all the pieces together...

  Senior management, technologists,
intellectual property,
marketing,
sales,
funders
...and so forth.

Buying, selling, licensing, swapping, etc.

John Redding
Founder – Chief Sage

 
 

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Within our growing membership and our employees are a sizable select core nucleus of “Sages” who have been: CEOs, CTOs, VPs of Engineering, VPs of Sales, VPs of Marketing, VPs of Finance, financiers, lawyers, and so forth.

Many of our Sages have been key players in highly successful ventures. They have founded companies, developed technologies that have changed the world and that have disrupted the world, financed them, rapidly grown them, and successfully done various successful “exits” through means such as “mergers and acquisitions”, IPOs, and LBOs.

Many of our Sages are internationally recognized experts. Many of our Sages are “icons”.

Most of our Sages are graduates from prestigious internationally recognized universities – MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, Toronto, Queen’s, and so forth. Most of the Sages hold graduate degrees in Engineering, Business, Economics, or Law.

Exchangables – Viewable by Sages and Specialists Only

Some exchangables may only be viewed by Sages and Specialists.
Typically they fall into various classes such as ones that a member, a member-client, a Sage, or a Specialist has deemed “as sensitive”, “of unusual value”, or “requires special handling”, and so forth.

Exchanging – with High-Touch “Industrial Matching”™ – by Specialists

Contact a Sage “Specialist” for “high touch” service.

They can do an impressive job of “industrial matching”™.

Specialists deal with exchangers, member-clients, exchangables, and customers day in and day out.

If you describe your needs, then they can help you select exchangables and exchangers that can

ideally meet your needs or do a formal “search” on your behalf.

They have immense experience and up-to-date knowledge.

Ask for “thorough vetting”.

Hit the road running.

Exchanging - with Multi-Exchangeable Packaging - by Specialists – Gold Service

Our Specialists work closely with other members and the things and resources the members list on the Exchange. They strive to add significant value to them by levering their experience and market knowledge.

They seek to combine things into “packages” so that the combined package greatly exceeds the sum of its parts.

Exchanging - with Complete Packaging and “Going Concern” Generation - by Specialists - Platinum Service

Our Sages, Specialists and The Sage Exchange ultimately strive to create multi-item packages of high valuation that they can either market and/or manage and which in turn can become, start-ups, spin-offs, going concerns, or major acquisition targets.

To do so we would typically provide all or most of the following from our membership:

The Senior Management Team: CEO, The VP of Sales and /or Marketing, the CTO, the VP of Engineering, the CFO. They would work as needed and would engage as required.

The Extended Team: The Directors, Advisors, Investors.

The “Third party” Sales Agents, the Sales Channels, and the Partners.

The Technical Team.

The Initial customers: End-users, OEMs, VARS, etc.

The Marketing: market research, competitive analysis, marketing communications, product marketing, etc.

The Strategy.

The Business Plan.

The Funding: from our own financial resources, or from our financial members, from our corporate members.

The Exit. M&A, LBO, IPO.

An Example Spin-off

www.horizonwis.com

Horizon, a wireless systems integrator was conceived by an Exchanger and staffed entirely from Exchangers.