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Table of Contents Executive Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Keys to Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Company Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Company Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.2 Start-up Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.3 Company Locations and Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 Product Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Competitive Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Sales Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4 Sourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.5 Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6 Future Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Market Analysis Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Market Segmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2 Website Demographics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.1 Market Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.2 Market Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.2.3 Market Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3 Industry Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.1 Industry Participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.2 Distribution Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.3 Competition and Buying Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.3.4 Main Competitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Web Plan Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 Business Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Website Marketing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3 Development Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3.1 Front End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3.2 Back End . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.4 Traffic Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Strategy and Implementation Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.1 Strategy Pyramids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.2 Value Proposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.3 Competitive Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4 Marketing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.1 Positioning Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.2 Pricing Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.3 Promotion Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.4 Commerce Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.5 Marketing Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5 Sales Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Sales Forecast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.2 Sales Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.6 Strategic Alliances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.7 Milestones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Management Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 7.1 Organizational Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Financial Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.1 Important Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.2 Key Financial Indicators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.3 Exit Strategy and Financing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.4 Break-even Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.5 Projected Profit and Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.6 Projected Cash Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.7 Projected Balance Sheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8.8 Business Ratios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Management Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Management Team Gaps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Personnel Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

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1.0 Executive Summary Introduction InteliChild.com offers bright children an entertaining place to interact with each other, the Web, educators, and the world in general. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It is a healthy place for kids to play, for parents and schools to buy, and a creative and fair work environment for employees. The InteliChild.com e-commerce project is the natural evolution for the InteliChild.com Internet presence. The site will market and sell selected toys, books, and software products. It will also produce Web products and Web applications that will increase market share, promote name recognition, and maximize efficiency.

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The Company The present InteliChild.com is a start-up company with four full-time employees. The company was incorporated early in 1999 as a California C corporation owned by its principal founders, at 25% ownership each. Late in 1999 (Name Omitted) Capital partners acquired 50% of the company for $500,000. The company has a single office in Bend, Oregon. The initial website is at www.citruscoolkids.com.

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Our key competitive advantage is the in-house knowledge base we have developed. Our competitor spends five to 10 times the amount of money we do outsourcing to expensive companies for services we perform in-house. The TM same will take place withTMthe InteliChild.com website. We already have TM the SQL server and ColdFusion programming expertise, and we will be adding the Flash integration of these skills. Products and Services InteliChild will be offering a steadily increasing mix of three lines of products: • Toys and Games: carefully selected toys and games that appeal to the target market, the parents of the target market, and educators. • Books: there should be a selection of books that appeal specifically to the parents and educators of the target market, so that these interested adults can go to this site and order books about their children. In addition, of course there is also a selection of books to be ordered by and for the kids to read. • Software: carefully selected software to appeal to the target market and target parents and educators.

The Internet reinvents itself every three months, or even faster. Therefore, our strategy for future development is to remain positioned with enough flexibility to adapt new technologies, and adapt to changes quickly.

The Market The InteliChild.com market has been expanding exponentially with the advances of technology in the teaching sectors and the acceptance of technology as a teaching aid. The critical component to our entrance into the market will be approval and support from the school communities—including teachers, the PTA, and special education programs. Our primary target markets include these four areas: 1. 2. 3. 4.

The kids themselves. Parents. Educational institutions for children of the upper class. Self-teaching families.

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While we have plans to expand into international territory, our initial launch will target our most important market—the American upper class. We know that most of our clients drive BMW's and have very good taste—they spend money on their children because they can appreciate the technology that we have created. They also generally have high bandwidth connections, and are impressed by first-class design. Financial Considerations Our start-up costs come to $33,750, which are high because of our commitment to dominate the Internet market place. The Break-even Analysis is a good financial indicator. We show break-even with a sales level of about $265K per month, even assuming a fixed cost of $169 per month, which is high. Given those assumptions, we reach steady-state break-even in December of this first year.

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The sales forecast is based on increasing website traffic and increasing sales per unique user session. Sales are projected to rise from $569 thousand in 2000 to $6 million in 2001 and $25.8 million in 2002. The forecast obviously depends on traffic increase. We plan to lose money for at least three years while we build traffic and develop our position for the longterm future.

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$5,000,000 $4,000,000 $3,000,000

Sales

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Net Profit

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2001

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1.1 Objectives

• Traffic, as measured in unique user sessions: 100,000 unique user sessions in June, 2000; 450,000 in December, 2000; 3.5 million in 2001; and 5 million in 2002.

• Sell-through, as measured in dollar sales per unique visit: a high of $0.58 per unique visit in December of 2000; increasing to $0.83 in 2001; and $0.92 in 2002.

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return (IRR) to investors. The financial section indicates IRR of more than 100% for all investors, with larger IRR for seed, declining slightly for first round and then second round. • Acquisition or Initial public offering (IPO) in 2003, with a valuation of more than $20 million. This assumes of course the market valuations based on sales and earnings, which are relatively high as this plan is written.

1.2 Mission

InteliChild.com offers bright children an entertaining place to interact with each other, the Web, educators, and the world in general. It generates traffic first, valuation for investors, and eventually commerce and profits. It is a healthy place for kids to play, for parents and schools to buy, and a creative and fair work environment for employees.

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We must retain the customers. The website has to be easy to use and quickly viewable. User satisfaction is an ultimate priority. The project will succeed if it can capitalize on the traffic that InteliChild.com produces, and turn the user sessions into dollars through the commerce site. The sales process must be easy to administer and flexible enough to accommodate the needs of InteliChild, which is not ready to take on more employees to do so. The e-commerce project should further establish InteliChild.com presence as a technology leader, not only returning traffic but actually bringing in new traffic.

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1.3 Keys to Success

2.0 Company Summary

The present InteliChild.com is a start-up company with four full time employees. We are a high-powered team of creative individuals. The company creates an Internet environment attractive to bright kids, and is planning to sell toys, books, and software to those kids, their parents, and schools. Our products will be the best reviewed in our niche.

2.1 Company Ownership

The company was incorporated early in 1999 as a California C corporation owned by its principal founders, at 25% ownership each. Late in 1999 Name Omitted Capital partners acquired 50% of the company for $500,000.

2.2 Start-up Summary

Our start-up costs come to $33,750, because of our commitment to dominate the Internet market place. Our development costs are high, but because we are now located in Oregon instead of the Silicon Valley, our human resources costs are not as high as they might be—particularly for the talented programmers that we need. Marketing expenses are also high, but spending on the costly development of this site without promoting it appropriately would make it difficult to gather together the traffic necessary to make this a success. Our location leverages our partner potential, even though we are paying a premium for space

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Table: Start-up Start-up Requirements

Start-up Assets Needed Cash Balance on Starting Date Start-up Inventory Other Current Assets Total Current Assets Long-term Assets Total Assets Total Requirements

$494,000 $0 $5,000 $499,000 $0 $499,000 $532,750

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Funding

$1,000 $2,500 $5,000 $15,000 $250 $500 $1,000 $3,500 $5,000 $33,750

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Start-up Expenses Legal Software Design Work Programming Insurance Rent Research and Development Hosting Setup Other Total Start-up Expenses

Investment Seed investor Founders Other Total Investment

$500,000 $32,750 $0 $532,750

Current Liabilities Accounts Payable Current Borrowing Other Current Liabilities Current Liabilities

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Long-term Liabilities Total Liabilities

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Loss at Start-up Total Capital Total Capital and Liabilities

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and for talent due to development costs.

($33,750) $499,000 $499,000

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Start-up

$600,000 $500,000 $400,000 $300,000 $200,000

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2.3 Company Locations and Facilities

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The company has a single office in Bend, Oregon. Its important website and Internet infrastructure situation is explained in detail in Chapter 5. The initial website is at www.citruscoolkids.com.

3.0 Products

InteliChild will be offering a steadily increasing mix of three lines of products: 1.

Toys and Games: carefully selected toys and games that appeal to the target market, the parents of the target market, and educators.

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Books: there should be a selection of books that appeal specifically to the parents and educators of the target market, so that these interested adults can go to this site and order books about their children. In addition, of course there is also a selection of books to be ordered by and for the kids to read.

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Software: carefully selected software to appeal to the target market and target parents and educators.

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3.1 Product Description In the original plan this is a detailed description of the specific toys and games, books, and software that are included on the website. This level of detail was considered proprietary and was removed from the plan for purposes of illustration. If you are using this sample plan as an example, then insert here a detailed list of your own products for your own plan.

3.2 Competitive Comparison

In the original plan this is a detailed description of and analysis of other channels and sources from which the target market and parents and educators can purchase toys, games, books, and software. It describes in general some kinds of toy shops, and then specifically some catalog and web businesses that appeal to this audience.

3.3 Sales Literature

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This level of detail was considered proprietary and was removed from the plan for purposes of illustration. If you are using this sample plan as an example, then insert here a detailed description of your competitors for your plan.

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Our answer to sales literature is the web. Within six months we should also have a printed catalog that we can send to people to go along with the web purchasing process, because some buyers will want to refer to a hard-copy catalog.

3.4 Sourcing

In the real plan this section referred in detail to distributors and products they carried. This detail was considered proprietary and strategic, and was omitted from the sample plan for purposes of illustration. If you are using this plan as an example, then in this section you should have detailed discussion of how the products to be sold can be purchased from manufacturers and distributors.

3.5 Technology

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The InteliChild.comTMe-commerce site will be built on a three-tier structure. Driven by SQL servers andTMan IIS Web server backed with bandwidth, the site will be coded mostly in TM ColdFusion and ASP . We will be taking our registration databases live to be able to email updates on products and the website to customers. We will offer customers the option to take themselves out of the list. The information architecture will be based on four fundamental arenas—the free valuable information arena, the product detail arena, the final purchasing arena, and the purchase administration area. TM

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The administrative arena will be hosted on mirror servers that query to the live databases for migration into local databases. This server is hidden from Internet traffic and kept under high security even within the company. The entire set-up will be somewhat costly. We will need five servers, two for in-house reasons, and three for Web hosting reasons. Two of the Web host servers will be serving TM TM TM traffic through ColdFusion and ASP in cluster, and the third will be a dedicated SQL server.

3.6 Future Products

4.0 Market Analysis Summary

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The Internet reinvents itself every three months, or even faster. Our strategy for future development is to remain positioned with enough flexibility to adapt new technologies, and adapt to changes quickly.

The InteliChild.com market has been expanding exponentially with the advances of technology in the teaching sectors and the acceptance of technology as a teaching aid. The critical component to our entrance into the market will be approval and support from the school communities—including teachers, the PTA, and special education programs.

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4.1 Market Segmentation

Our primary target markets include these four areas: 1. 2.

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The kids themselves. We include ages 5-9 and ages 10-14 in our market statistics because these are the breakdowns available at www.census.gov, and we include only 10% of the total in each category. Parents. We include 10% of the parents, assuming that leads to an average combined income above $100,000. Most of these people live in suburban areas, but the urban upper class is also a major component. [Editor note: details for this sample plan are not necessarily correct.] Educational institutions for the children of the upper class. This includes day care and private schools. Penetrating this market is excellent because it generates leads to our other targets. We include 107,000 schools in the U.S. in our table. Self-teaching families. There is an excellent group of established customers who teach their children from home. The site will benefit greatly from the time available from this target group.

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Market Analysis (Pie)

U.S. Kids 5-9

U.S. Kids 10-14 U.S. Parents

U.S. Schools

Home School Families Non-U.S. Parents

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Non-U.S. Schools

Table: Market Analysis Growth 2% 2% 2% 1% 40% 4% 0% 3.20%

2000 1,994,000 1,961,200 12,000,000 107,000 5,000 24,000,000 225,000 40,292,200

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Market Analysis Potential Customers U.S. Kids 5-9 U.S. Kids 10-14 U.S. Parents U.S. Schools Home School Families Non-U.S. Parents Non-U.S. Schools Total

2001 2,033,880 2,000,424 12,240,000 108,070 7,000 24,960,000 225,000 41,574,374

2002 2,074,558 2,040,432 12,484,800 109,151 9,800 25,958,400 225,000 42,902,141

2003 2,116,049 2,081,241 12,734,496 110,243 13,720 26,996,736 225,000 44,277,485

2004 2,158,370 2,122,866 12,989,186 111,345 19,208 28,076,605 225,000 45,702,580

CAGR 2.00% 2.00% 2.00% 1.00% 40.00% 4.00% 0.00% 3.20%

4.2 Website Demographics

While we have plans to expand into international territory, our initial launch will target our most important market—the American upper class. We know that most of our clients drive BMW's and have very good taste—they spend money on their children because they can appreciate the technology that we have created. They also generally have high bandwidth connections, and are impressed by first-class design.

4.2.1 Market Needs

The InteliChild.com website will have to reflect its product line—simultaneously fun, easy to use and informative. In order to gain recognition for our site efforts, we are going to have to put together a site that is worthy of attention. The design work should promote the feeling of superior quality. The InteliChild.com attitude will match the company's inherent value drive—parents and educators will feel guilty not buying into these products.

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4.2.2 Market Trends The market for intelligent technological teaching devices is growing exponentially. The key factors driving this growth are the increase in salaries in the technology sectors, the doubleincome household and the loss of leisure time. Hardworking parents are dedicated to giving their children every educational opportunity possible. Our target market's behavioral patterns are changing dramatically as well—research used to happen in many places; now increasingly it happens on the Internet.

4.2.3 Market Growth

4.3 Industry Analysis

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The macro-environment is the real reason for the urgency of the InteliChild.com e-commerce project. All trends in our market indicate that strong a Web presence will not be a frivolous extra for the company, but rather, an absolute necessity. As mentioned before, the doubleincome family in the technological sector is doing their research on the Internet. In order to survive, InteliChild.com must be present as a destination for these search results.

The website industry is exploding. Growth is absurd, amazing. We don't have business reasons to detail this situation in this plan, our readers are aware of it.

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4.3.1 Industry Participants

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4.3.2 Distribution Patterns

This is sample text describing the different websites addressing the same target market. The real plan included details identifying these websites, who owns them, how much traffic they get (according to available information sources), and their assorted business models.

4.3.3 Competition and Buying Patterns

This is sample text describing factors in competition for website use by bright children ages 814, for sales to their parents and schools. It details information available about the importance of factors such as pricing, shipment, quality, presentation, etc.

4.3.4 Main Competitors

Our competition is the market leader—and their success is a symbol of our potential market. We were pleased to see their Web division spin-off to its own company that went public with a tremendous initial offering. The market is too large for them to cover entirely, and as a second-best in dollar market share, with better reviews from the critical industry leaders, InteliChild.com stands in a position to expand our business significantly.

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5.0 Web Plan Summary The primary InteliChild.com strategy is to build an impressive destination website. The marketing of the site will be built around the core value that the site will offer. Although our competition has built a simple store for ordering the product, the InteliChild.com site will be reviewed by Web award companies as a great destination. We will build our revenue and market share around this traffic.

5.1 Business Model

Our business model is based on the sales of our products over the website. Because the site is also intended to increase brand equity and awareness, we are building for high traffic. Our model requires giving users an excellent free experience and to develop trust to increase sellthrough. We plan to lose money for at least three years while we build traffic and develop our position for the long-term future.

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Our first class design and product quality are critical to our positioning as a dot-com company—we should be the best reviewed website in our category, and that will become the key to future sales. In the past, our design work and marketing has not matched our betterfunded competitor. However, the core experience for the children has always been better, and with a new design team and a round of financing, the InteliChild.com company is ready to grow with the market. InteliChild.com will distinguish itself from its competitor as a full learning center, rather than just a store front.

5.3 Development Requirements

Of course the development needs to match the overall business strategy as explained in the rest of the plan. This has to be an excellent site or we just haven't implemented. That involves both front-end and back-end strategies, as explained in the following topics.

5.3.1 Front End

Because InteliChild.com's target customers are all affluent, we have the luxury of using the latest technologies to impress the visitors with excellent design and animation. We plan to release the site entirely in Shockwave™ format as almost 90% of our visitors will already have it installed. We will carry on the colorful and extremely well branded design of our company literature and logo—the decisions on basic aesthetics will not get in the way. The site will have a colorful and intelligent design, taking the ad campaign and product art into an interactive medium on the Web.

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5.3.2 Back End TM

The InteliChild.com e-commerce site will be built on a three-tier structure. Driven by SQL TM servers andTMan IIS Web server backed with bandwidth, the site will be coded mostly in TM ColdFusion and ASP . We will be taking our registration databases live to be able to email updates on products and the website to customers. We will offer customers the option to take themselves out of the list. The information architecture will be based on four fundamental arenas—the free valuable information arena, the product detail arena, the final purchasing arena, and the purchase administration area. TM

TM

The purchase arena will require a Verisign certificate and a Cybercash connection. That TM will begin immediately because dealing with Cybercash can sometimes be a lengthy process.

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The entire set-up will be somewhat costly. We will need five servers, two for in-house reasons, and three for Web hosting reasons. Two of the Web host servers will be serving TM TM TM traffic through ColdFusion and ASP in cluster, and the third will be a dedicated SQL server.

5.4 Traffic Forecast

The traffic forecast is based on increasing sessions, increasing page views per session, and increasing orders per session. The bottom line called "sell-through" is the overall dollars in order per user session, an important indicator that should be increasing over time.

6.0 Strategy and Implementation Summary

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6.1 Strategy Pyramids

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6.3 Competitive Edge

6.4 Marketing Strategy

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Our key competitive advantage is the in-house knowledge base we have developed. Our competitor spends five to 10 times the amount of money we do out-sourcing to expensive companies for services we perform in-house. The TM same will take place withTMthe InteliChild.com website. We already have TM the SQL server and ColdFusion programming expertise, and we will be adding the Flash integration of these skills.

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6.4.1 Positioning Statement

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6.4.2 Pricing Strategy

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6.4.4 Commerce Strategy

6.4.5 Marketing Programs

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6.5 Sales Strategy

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Sales by Year

$5,000,000 $4,500,000 $4,000,000 $3,500,000 $3,000,000

Toys and Games

$2,500,000

Books

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Software

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The sales forecast in the following table and charts is based on increasing website traffic and increasing sales per unique user session. Sales are projected to rise from $569 thousand in 2000 to $6 million in 2001 and $25.8 million in 2002. The forecast obviously depends on traffic increase.

Sales Monthly

$300,000 $250,000 $200,000 $150,000 $100,000

Toys and Games Books Software

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2000 17,622 4,618 3,604 25,845

Unit Prices Toys and Games Books Software

2000 $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Sales Toys and Games Books Software Total Sales

$528,672 $92,368 $144,148 $765,188

Direct Unit Costs Toys and Games Books Software

2000 $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Direct Cost of Sales Toys and Games Books Software Subtotal Direct Cost of Sales

2001 61,250 17,500 17,500 96,250

2002 112,500 50,000 5,000 167,500

2001 $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

2002 $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

$1,837,500 $350,000 $700,000 $2,887,500

$3,375,000 $1,000,000 $200,000 $4,575,000

2001 $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

2002 $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

2001 $735,000 $140,000 $280,000 $1,155,000

2002 $1,350,000 $400,000 $80,000 $1,830,000

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2000 $211,469 $36,947 $57,659 $306,075

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6.6 Strategic Alliances

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6.7 Milestones The milestones graphic illustrates key implementation activities. The most important milestone to reach will be the design templates. During that time we will be putting together the back-end phases, and both milestones should be achieved at the same time. After that point, integration can begin between the back-end and the front-end phases. Our next milestone will be the beta release, followed by the full launch two weeks later.

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Table: Milestones

Milestones Milestone Design Template Back-end Phase 1 Integration Beta Phase 1 Back-end Phase II Front-end Phase II Launch Redesign Totals

Start Date 1/1/00 1/1/00 1/1/00 3/1/00 5/1/00 5/1/00 6/1/00 12/1/00

End Date 3/1/00 4/1/00 5/1/00 6/1/00 5/15/00 5/15/00 12/1/00 4/1/01

Budget $2,500 $10,000 $500 $1,000 $5,000 $2,500 $0 $35,000 $56,500

Manager Terry Sonny Leslie Leslie Sonny Terry Leslie Leslie

Department Front end Back end Management Management Back end Front end Management Management

7.0 Management Summary

Our producer, Sonny XXXX, will head the InteliChild.com project. This full-time position will oversee all activities for the project. Sonny interfaces with each partner and staff member. This places Sonny in the role of administrator and coordinator of development and marketing activities, but also requires him to implement training and individual development activities for each partner. We all recognize the challenge Sonny faces as an employee, coach, and supervisor. More sample text here, not useful for purposes of example, describing the people involved and the management structure.

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7.1 Organizational Structure

We need an agile organizational structure that recognizes the need for a smooth flow of ideas and implementation between sales, marketing, and website development. We can't allow the team to think as if these were separate functions. On the surface, however, we have the president dealing with three direct reports: admin/finance, sales/marketing, and web development. In fact we are not going to manage with a strict hierarchy, because we need to emphasize the team. Still, particularly as we grow in size, structure is necessary. We will want to preserve decision-making power, and the ability to act, rather than trying to do everything by consensus.

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7.3 Management Team Gaps

We agree that the most obvious weakness at this point is the lack of seasoned professional management with experience. This is what the investors call the "gray haired factor." We will be looking to add more experience to the team as we build our administrative and financial capabilities.

7.4 Personnel Plan

The following personnel plan details our plans for the ramp-up. We start with the four key founders; by the end of 2000 we should have 14 people, and 16 by the end of 2002. Table: Personnel Personnel Plan Production Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

2001 4 $35,000 $140,000

2002 4 $45,000 $180,000

3 $26,000 $78,000

3 $65,000 $195,000

3 $70,000 $210,000

General and Administrative Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

3 $37,000 $111,000

3 $42,000 $126,000

3 $50,000 $150,000

Other Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

5 $57,000 $285,000

6 $65,000 $390,000

6 $65,000 $390,000

Total People Total Payroll Expenditures

14 $540,500

16 $851,000

16 $930,000

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8.0 Financial Plan This is an Internet venture that, of course, depends on the developing financial prospects of the growing Internet world. To make it work financially, we need to increase valuation on schedule to bring in substantial additional capital. The following table defines the investment offering for investors. Specifically: 1.

The exit strategy is acquisition in 2003, valuing the company at more than $20 million.

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Equity plan and valuations at time of exit are detailed in the section that follows, "Exit Strategy." The plan assumes an ending valuation of $20 million based on market trends, with IRR of more than 100% for all investors.

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2002

8.1 Important Assumptions

The general assumptions are listed in the following table. Obviously these are detailed financial assumptions, trivial compared to the underlying critical assumptions, which include: 1.

2.

3.

Continued growth of Internet usage. We accept published forecasts that say 4% of the world's population presently uses the Internet, and that will grow to 11% by 2005. That's strong growth. No e-commerce disaster scenarios. We'll have no huge problems with credit card authorization, shipping, etc. Continued support of financial markets, which means continued rise in valuations of Internet companies, even Internet companies losing money. The increase in valuation is critical to our financial strategy.

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General Assumptions Plan Month Current Interest Rate Long-term Interest Rate Tax Rate Sales on Credit % Other Calculated Totals Payroll Expense Sales on Credit New Accounts Payable Inventory Purchase

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Table: General Assumptions 2000 1 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

2001 2 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

2002 3 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

$540,500 $76,519 $2,265,564 $417,296

$851,000 $288,750 $3,646,007 $1,463,480

$930,000 $457,500 $4,422,027 $2,075,280

8.2 Key Financial Indicators

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8.3 Exit Strategy and Financing Details of the exit strategy are included in two following tables: 1. 2.

The Investment Analysis table details how we expect valuation to proceed over time, linked in to the planned rounds of financing. The table included here shows how we plan to distribute equity and shares over time, and planned ending valuation of $23 million and investment yield for three rounds of investment.

Equity Shares and Investment Return

Seed Round 1 Round 2

Amount ($000) $500K $750K $2 million

Shares

Per share

Year

2003 Value

IRR %

1.5 million 750K 800K

$0.33 $1.00 $2.50

1999 2000 2001

$8.4 million $4.2 million $4.5 million

157 % 138% 126%

Table: Investment Analysis Investment Analysis

Start

2000

2001

2002

$532,750 $0 $0 ($532,750) 0% $13,020,565 178%

$750,000 $0 $0 ($750,000)

$2,000,000 $0 $0 ($2,000,000)

$0 $0 $22,880,000 $22,880,000

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20 5

20 5

$750,000 $0 $0 $3,830,000 $1,915,000

$2,000,000 $0 $0 $14,440,000 $7,220,000

$0 $0 $440,000 $22,880,000 $11,660,000

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8.4 Break-even Analysis The break-even analysis is a good financial indicator. We do show break-even with a sales level of about $265K per month, even assuming a fixed cost of $169 per month, which is high. Given those assumptions, we reach steady-state break-even in about December of this first year.

Break-even Analysis $50,000 $0 ($50,000) ($100,000)

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Table: Break-even Analysis

Break-even Analysis: Monthly Units Break-even Monthly Revenue Break-even

8,971 $265,591

Assumptions: Average Per-Unit Revenue Average Per-Unit Variable Cost Estimated Monthly Fixed Cost

$29.61 $11.84 $159,355

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8.5 Projected Profit and Loss Despite the present trend towards investors encouraging losses for website businesses, we believe that we can turn a profit by the third year. We also intend to reduce losses significantly in the second year, as shown by the following table. Nevertheless, the investment in on-line and off-line advertising is substantial, and the traffic justifies the loss.

Gross Margin Yearly

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Table: Profit and Loss Pro Forma Profit and Loss Sales Direct Costs of Goods Production Payroll Fulfillment

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Total Sales and Marketing Expenses Sales and Marketing % General and Administrative Expenses: General and Administrative Payroll Sales and Marketing and Other Expenses Depreciation Leased Equipment Utilities Insurance Rent Payroll Taxes Other General and Administrative Expenses Total General and Administrative Expenses General and Administrative % Other Expenses: Other Payroll Software & Equipment Total Other Expenses Other %

Total Operating Expenses Profit Before Interest and Taxes Interest Expense Taxes Incurred Net Profit Net Profit/Sales Include Negative Taxes

2001 $2,887,500 $1,155,000 $140,000 $98,250 -----------$1,393,250 $1,494,250 51.75%

2002 $4,575,000 $1,830,000 $180,000 $169,500 -----------$2,179,500 $2,395,500 52.36%

$78,000 $640,880 $444,400 $42,000 $20,000 $27,000 $90,000 $12,000 -----------$1,354,280 176.99%

$195,000 $673,000 $400,000 $38,000 $18,000 $30,000 $99,000 $13,000 -----------$1,466,000 50.77%

$210,000 $707,000 $360,000 $34,000 $16,000 $33,000 $109,000 $14,000 -----------$1,483,000 32.42%

$111,000 $0 $2,000 $9,000 $2,400 $500 $42,000 $81,075 $0 -----------$247,975 32.41%

$126,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $6,000 $3,000 $50,000 $127,650 $0 -----------$327,650 11.35%

$150,000 $0 $4,000 $15,000 $10,000 $10,000 $55,000 $139,500 $0 -----------$383,500 8.38%

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Cost of Goods Sold Gross Margin Gross Margin % Operating Expenses: Sales and Marketing Expenses: Sales and Marketing Payroll Online Advertising Other Advertising Collaterals Events Public Relations Website Infrastructure Miscellaneous

2000 $765,188 $306,075 $66,500 $45,845 -----------$418,420 $346,768 45.32%

$285,000 $390,000 $390,000 $25,000 $20,000 $20,000 ---------------------------------$310,000 $410,000 $410,000 40.51% 14.20% 8.96% ---------------------------------$1,912,255 $2,203,650 $2,276,500 ($1,565,487) ($709,400) $119,000 $8,333 $40,000 $90,000 $0 $0 $7,250 ($1,573,821) ($749,400) $21,750 -205.68% -25.95% 0.48% FALSE FALSE TRUE

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8.6 Projected Cash Flow As is to be expected in this kind of venture, the cash flow is supported mainly by new capital from new investment in the company. We've scheduled additional rounds of financing to make that realistic.

Cash $700,000 $600,000 $500,000 $400,000 $300,000

Net Cash Flow

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2002

$688,669 $39,856 $728,525

$2,598,750 $187,061 $2,785,811

$4,117,500 $376,645 $4,494,145

$0 $0 $400,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $750,000 $1,878,525

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,000,000 $4,785,811

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$182,665 $1,946,051 $2,128,716

$296,373 $3,447,113 $3,743,486

$372,503 $4,288,862 $4,661,365

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,128,716

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $3,743,486

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $4,661,365

($250,191) $243,809

$1,042,325 $1,286,134

$832,780 $2,118,914

Cash Received Cash from Operations: Cash Sales Cash from Receivables Subtotal Cash from Operations Additional Cash Received Non Operating (Other) Income Sales Tax, VAT, HST/GST Received New Current Borrowing New Other Liabilities (interest-free) New Long-term Liabilities Sales of Other Current Assets Sales of Long-term Assets New Investment Received Subtotal Cash Received Expenditures Expenditures from Operations: Cash Spending Payment of Accounts Payable Subtotal Spent on Operations

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Liabilities and Capital

2000 $243,809 $36,663 $111,221 $5,000 $396,693

2001 $1,286,134 $138,352 $419,701 $5,000 $1,849,187

2002 $2,118,914 $219,207 $664,981 $5,000 $3,008,101

$0 $2,000 ($2,000) $394,693

$0 $5,000 ($5,000) $1,844,187

$0 $9,000 ($9,000) $2,999,101

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Accounts Payable Current Borrowing Other Current Liabilities Subtotal Current Liabilities

2000 $319,513 $400,000 $0 $719,513

2001 $518,407 $400,000 $0 $918,407

2002 $651,572 $1,400,000 $0 $2,051,572

Long-term Liabilities Total Liabilities

$0 $719,513

$0 $918,407

$0 $2,051,572

$1,282,750 ($33,750) ($1,573,821) ($324,821) $394,693 ($324,821)

$3,282,750 ($1,607,571) ($749,400) $925,779 $1,844,187 $925,779

$3,282,750 ($2,356,971) $21,750 $947,529 $2,999,101 $947,529

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8.8 Business Ratios Our ratios, as projected here, are typical of the kind of growth company we project. The comparisons are based on SIC 5999, miscellaneous retail, which is obviously not an excellent match with our business... however, it seems as close as we can come because there is no data available on true Internet businesses. We do expect our gross margin and sales per employee to be much higher than standard retail.

Gross Margin Monthly $160,000 $140,000 $120,000

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2000 0.00%

2001 277.36%

2002 58.44%

Industry Profile 6.30%

Percent of Total Assets Accounts Receivable Inventory Other Current Assets Total Current Assets Long-term Assets Total Assets

9.29% 28.18% 1.27% 100.51% -0.51% 100.00%

7.50% 22.76% 0.27% 100.27% -0.27% 100.00%

7.31% 22.17% 0.17% 100.30% -0.30% 100.00%

16.90% 39.30% 23.90% 80.10% 19.90% 100.00%

Current Liabilities Long-term Liabilities Total Liabilities Net Worth

0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%

0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%

0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 100.00%

46.00% 14.00% 60.00% 40.00%

100.00% 45.32% 251.00% 83.75% -204.59%

100.00% 51.75% 77.70% 23.31% -24.57%

100.00% 52.36% 51.89% 15.45% 2.60%

100.00% 34.10% 19.80% 2.60% 1.10%

0.55 0.40 182.30% 484.52% -398.75%

2.01 1.56 49.80% -80.95% -40.64%

1.47 1.14 68.41% 3.06% 0.97%

1.77 0.67 60.00% 2.60% 6.50%

2000 $54,656

2001 $180,469

2002 $285,938

Industry $0 0.00%

2000 -205.68% 0.00%

2001 -25.95% -80.95%

2002 0.48% 2.30%

2.09 39 12.00 7.09 20 1.94

2.09 111 4.35 7.03 503 1.57

2.09 143 3.37 6.79 579 1.53

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0.00 1.00

0.99 1.00

2.17 1.00

n.a n.a

($322,821) -187.86

$930,779 -17.74

$956,529 1.32

n.a n.a

0.52 182% 0.35 0.00 0.00

0.64 50% 1.41 3.12 0.00

0.66 68% 1.04 4.83 0.00

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Main Ratios Current Quick Total Debt to Total Assets Pre-tax Return on Net Worth Pre-tax Return on Assets

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Business Vitality Profile Sales per Employee Survival Rate

Additional Ratios Net Profit Margin Return on Equity

Activity Ratios Accounts Receivable Turnover Collection Days Inventory Turnover Accounts Payable Turnover Payment Days Total Asset Turnover Debt Ratios Debt to Net Worth Current Liab. to Liab. Liquidity Ratios Net Working Capital Interest Coverage

Additional Ratios Assets to Sales Current Debt/Total Assets Acid Test Sales/Net Worth Dividend Payout

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Sales Forecast Unit Sales Toys and Games Books Software Total Unit Sales

Jan 0 0 0 0

Feb 0 0 0 0

Mar 0 0 0 0

Apr 79 0 0 79

May 213 0 0 213

Unit Prices Toys and Games Books Software

Jan $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Feb $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Mar $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Apr $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

May $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Sales Toys and Games Books Software Total Sales

$0 $0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0 $0

$2,382 $0 $0 $2,382

Jan $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Feb $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Mar $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Apr $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Jan $0 $0 $0 $0

Feb $0 $0 $0 $0

Mar $0 $0 $0 $0

Apr $953 $0 $0 $953

Oct 3,043 761 761 4,565

Nov 4,314 863 1,079 6,255

Dec 5,753 2,397 1,438 9,588

Jun $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Jul $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Aug $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Sep $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Oct $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Nov $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

Dec $30.00 $20.00 $40.00

$6,384 $0 $0 $6,384

$8,844 $0 $0 $8,844

$18,306 $0 $0 $18,306

$40,740 $5,432 $0 $46,172

$58,716 $6,524 $13,048 $78,288

$91,296 $15,216 $30,432 $136,944

$129,420 $17,256 $43,140 $189,816

$172,584 $47,940 $57,528 $278,052

May $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Jun $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Jul $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Aug $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Sep $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Oct $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Nov $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

Dec $12.00 $8.00 $16.00

May $2,554 $0 $0 $2,554

Jun $3,538 $0 $0 $3,538

Jul $7,322 $0 $0 $7,322

Aug $16,296 $2,173 $0 $18,469

Sep $23,486 $2,610 $5,219 $31,315

Oct $36,518 $6,086 $12,173 $54,778

Nov $51,768 $6,902 $17,256 $75,926

Dec $69,034 $19,176 $23,011 $111,221

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Personnel Plan Production Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

Jan 0 $2,500 $0

Feb 0 $2,500 $0

Mar 1 $2,500 $2,500

Apr 1 $2,500 $2,500

May 1 $2,500 $2,500

Sales and Marketing Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

1 $3,000 $3,000

1 $3,000 $3,000

1 $3,000 $3,000

1 $3,000 $3,000

1 $3,000 $3,000

General and Administrative Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

1 $3,000 $3,000

2 $3,000 $6,000

2 $3,000 $6,000

2 $4,000 $8,000

2 $4,000 $8,000

Other Personnel People Average per Person Subtotal

2 $5,000 $10,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

Total People Total Payroll Expenditures

4 $16,000

8 $34,000

9 $36,500

9 $38,500

Jul 3 $3,000 $9,000

Aug 3 $3,000 $9,000

Sep 3 $3,000 $9,000

Oct 3 $3,000 $9,000

Nov 3 $3,000 $9,000

Dec 3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

3 $3,000 $9,000

2 $4,000 $8,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

3 $4,000 $12,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

5 $5,000 $25,000

9 $38,500

12 $47,000

14 $55,000

14 $55,000

14 $55,000

14 $55,000

14 $55,000

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Mar 3 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Apr 4 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

May 5 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Jun 6 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Jul 7 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Aug 8 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Sep 9 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Oct 10 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Nov 11 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

Dec 12 10.00% 10.00% 25.00% 10.00% 0.00%

$16,000 $0 $33,205 $0

$34,000 $0 $63,265 $0

$36,500 $0 $82,012 $0

$38,500 $238 $128,488 $1,906

$38,500 $638 $118,334 $4,154

$47,000 $884 $138,953 $4,522

$55,000 $1,831 $191,353 $11,107

$55,000 $4,617 $220,809 $29,615

$55,000 $7,829 $255,632 $44,162

$55,000 $13,694 $304,713 $78,240

$55,000 $18,982 $335,020 $97,075

$55,000 $27,805 $393,781 $146,515

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Total Sales and Marketing Expenses Sales and Marketing % General and Administrative Expenses: General and Administrative Payroll Sales and Marketing and Other Expenses Depreciation Leased Equipment Utilities Insurance Rent Payroll Taxes Other General and Administrative Expenses

15%

Jun $8,844 $3,538 $5,000 $2,295 -----------$10,833 ($1,989) -22.49%

Jul $18,306 $7,322 $9,000 $2,610 -----------$18,932 ($626) -3.42%

Aug $46,172 $18,469 $9,000 $3,630 -----------$31,099 $15,073 32.65%

Sep $78,288 $31,315 $9,000 $4,610 -----------$44,925 $33,363 42.62%

Oct $136,944 $54,778 $9,000 $6,565 -----------$70,343 $66,601 48.63%

Nov $189,816 $75,926 $9,000 $8,255 -----------$93,181 $96,635 50.91%

Dec $278,052 $111,221 $9,000 $11,588 -----------$131,809 $146,243 52.60%

$3,000 $5,000 $0 $2,000 $0 $0 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$14,000 0.00%

$3,000 $17,900 $0 $0 $0 $0 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$24,900 0.00%

$3,000 $22,000 $11,535 $0 $0 $0 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$40,535 0.00%

$3,000 $26,100 $23,535 $10,000 $10,000 $3,000 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$79,635 3343.20%

$3,000 $29,535 $34,435 $0 $0 $3,000 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$73,970 1158.68%

$9,000 $36,735 $39,835 $0 $0 $3,000 $3,000 $1,000 -----------$92,570 1046.70%

$9,000 $46,335 $44,335 $5,000 $10,000 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$130,670 713.81%

$9,000 $63,135 $50,735 $5,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$143,870 311.60%

$9,000 $81,135 $54,235 $5,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$165,370 211.23%

$9,000 $95,535 $58,335 $5,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$183,870 134.27%

$9,000 $105,135 $61,885 $5,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$197,020 103.80%

$9,000 $112,335 $65,535 $5,000 $0 $3,000 $12,000 $1,000 -----------$207,870 74.76%

$3,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $500 $2,000 $2,400 $0 -----------$8,850 0.00%

$6,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $2,000 $5,100 $0 -----------$14,050 0.00%

$6,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $2,000 $5,475 $0 -----------$14,425 0.00%

$8,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $2,000 $5,775 $0 -----------$16,725 702.14%

$8,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $2,000 $5,775 $0 -----------$16,725 261.98%

$8,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $2,000 $7,050 $0 -----------$18,000 203.53%

$12,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$26,200 143.12%

$12,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$26,200 56.74%

$12,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$26,200 33.47%

$12,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$26,200 19.13%

$12,000 $0 $0 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$26,200 13.80%

$12,000 $0 $2,000 $750 $200 $0 $5,000 $8,250 $0 -----------$28,200 10.14%

$10,000 $2,000 -----------$12,000 0.00% -----------$34,850 ($34,850) $0 $0 ($34,850) 0.00%

$25,000 $2,000 -----------$27,000 0.00% -----------$65,950 ($65,950) $0 $0 ($65,950) 0.00%

$25,000 $2,000 -----------$27,000 0.00% -----------$81,960 ($86,460) $0 $0 ($86,460) 0.00%

$25,000 $10,000 -----------$35,000 1469.35% -----------$131,360 ($134,510) $0 $0 ($134,510) -5646.93%

$25,000 $2,000 -----------$27,000 422.93% -----------$117,695 ($118,578) $0 $0 ($118,578) -1857.42%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 293.98% -----------$136,570 ($138,559) $0 $0 ($138,559) -1566.70%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 142.03% -----------$182,870 ($183,496) $0 $0 ($183,496) -1002.38%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 56.31% -----------$196,070 ($180,997) $0 $0 ($180,997) -392.01%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 33.21% -----------$217,570 ($184,207) $1,667 $0 ($185,874) -237.42%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 18.99% -----------$236,070 ($169,469) $1,667 $0 ($171,135) -124.97%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 13.70% -----------$249,220 ($152,585) $1,667 $0 ($154,252) -81.26%

$25,000 $1,000 -----------$26,000 9.35% -----------$262,070 ($115,827) $3,333 $0 ($119,160) -42.86%

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Apr $2,382 $953 $2,500 $2,079 -----------$5,532 ($3,150) -132.23%

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Mar $0 $0 $2,500 $2,000 -----------$4,500 ($4,500) 0.00%

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Feb $0 $0 $0 $0 -----------$0 $0 0.00%

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May

Jun

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Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

$0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0

$2,144 $0 $2,144

$5,746 $127 $5,873

$7,960 $452 $8,411

$16,475 $770 $17,245

$41,555 $1,389 $42,944

$70,459 $3,317 $73,776

$123,250 $6,330 $129,580

$170,834 $10,957 $181,792

$250,247 $16,514 $266,761

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $2,144

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $500,000 $505,873

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $8,411

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $17,245

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $42,944

$0 $0 $200,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $250,000 $523,776

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $129,580

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $181,792

$0 $0 $200,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $466,761

Jan

Feb

Mar

$1,645 $18,894 $20,539

$2,685 $54,217 $56,902

$4,449 $66,669 $71,118

Additional Cash Spent Non Operating (Other) Expense Sales Tax, VAT, HST/GST Paid Out Principal Repayment of Current Borrowing Other Liabilities Principal Repayment Long-term Liabilities Principal Repayment Purchase Other Current Assets Purchase Long-term Assets Dividends Subtotal Cash Spent

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $20,539

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $56,902

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $71,118

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

$9,357 $85,784 $95,141

$8,229 $128,149 $136,378

$9,434 $128,470 $137,904

$14,234 $149,593 $163,827

$17,507 $192,335 $209,842

$21,376 $221,969 $243,345

$26,829 $257,268 $284,098

$30,197 $305,723 $335,919

$36,726 $336,979 $373,705

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $95,141

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $136,378

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $137,904

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $163,827

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $209,842

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $243,345

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $284,098

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $335,919

$0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $373,705

($92,997) $252,445

$369,495 $621,939

($129,493) $492,447

($146,582) $345,865

($166,898) $178,967

$280,431 $459,398

($154,518) $304,880

($154,128) $150,752

$93,057 $243,809

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Pro Forma Balance Sheet Jan $473,462 $0 $0 $5,000 $478,462

Feb $416,560 $0 $0 $5,000 $421,560

Mar $345,442 $0 $0 $5,000 $350,442

Apr $252,445 $238 $953 $5,000 $258,636

May $621,939 $750 $2,554 $5,000 $630,243

$0 $0 $0 $499,000

$0 $0 $0 $478,462

$0 $0 $0 $421,560

$0 $0 $0 $350,442

$0 $0 $0 $258,636

$0 $0 $0 $630,243

Jul $345,865 $2,243 $7,322 $5,000 $360,431

Aug $178,967 $5,471 $18,469 $5,000 $207,908

Sep $459,398 $9,983 $31,315 $5,000 $505,697

Oct $304,880 $17,348 $54,778 $5,000 $382,005

Nov $150,752 $25,372 $75,926 $5,000 $257,051

Dec $243,809 $36,663 $111,221 $5,000 $396,693

$0 $0 $0 $502,167

$0 $0 $0 $360,431

$0 $0 $0 $207,908

$0 $0 $0 $505,697

$0 $0 $0 $382,005

$0 $0 $0 $257,051

$0 $2,000 ($2,000) $394,693

Accounts Payable Current Borrowing Other Current Liabilities Subtotal Current Liabilities

$0 $0 $0 $0

Jan $14,312 $0 $0 $14,312

Feb $23,360 $0 $0 $23,360

Mar $38,702 $0 $0 $38,702

Apr $81,406 $0 $0 $81,406

May $71,590 $0 $0 $71,590

Jun $82,073 $0 $0 $82,073

Jul $123,833 $0 $0 $123,833

Aug $152,307 $0 $0 $152,307

Sep $185,970 $200,000 $0 $385,970

Oct $233,414 $200,000 $0 $433,414

Nov $262,711 $200,000 $0 $462,711

Dec $319,513 $400,000 $0 $719,513

Long-term Liabilities Total Liabilities

$0 $0

$0 $14,312

$0 $23,360

$0 $38,702

$0 $81,406

$0 $71,590

$0 $82,073

$0 $123,833

$0 $152,307

$0 $385,970

$0 $433,414

$0 $462,711

$0 $719,513

Paid-in Capital Retained Earnings Earnings

$532,750 ($33,750) $0

$532,750 ($33,750) ($34,850)

$532,750 ($33,750) ($100,800)

$532,750 ($33,750) ($187,260)

$532,750 ($33,750) ($321,770)

$1,032,750 ($33,750) ($440,347)

$1,032,750 ($33,750) ($578,906)

$1,032,750 ($33,750) ($762,402)

$1,032,750 ($33,750) ($943,399)

Total Capital Total Liabilities and Capital Net Worth

$499,000 $499,000 $499,000

$464,150 $478,462 $464,150

$398,200 $421,560 $398,200

$311,740 $350,442 $311,740

$177,230 $258,636 $177,230

$558,653 $630,243 $558,653

$420,094 $502,167 $420,094

$236,598 $360,431 $236,598

$55,601 $207,908 $55,601

$1,282,750 $1,282,750 $1,282,750 $1,282,750 ($33,750) ($33,750) ($33,750) ($33,750) ($1,129,273) ($1,300,408) ($1,454,660) ($1,573,821) $119,727 $505,697 $119,727

($51,408) $382,005 ($51,408)

($205,660) $257,051 ($205,660)

($324,821) $394,693 ($324,821)

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Appendix Internet Sample Business Plan

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