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Adam Malofsky

Cincinnati, Ohio

Materials, manufacturing, polymers, chemicals, green & clean, building, auto, equipment, CPG, 3D printing, assembly, food, aero, packaging, medical - from concept to exit, raised $100 million in a 25 year career, engaged a trillion in annual rev firms, fortune 50, Angel, Private Placement, VC, alliances, joint ventures, joint development, product development, commercial development, organizational development, facility development, etc...over $2.5B in annually sold products

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Fundraising & Exits

Multiple areas, strategies and approaches - dilutive, non dilutive; single angel, angel group, private placement, corporate, corporate strategic, alumni VC; customer, prospect and supply chain sponsorship, ecosystem sponsorship, partnerships, joint developments, alliances; exit driven funding derived from the latter - organization build v revenue v tech dev v tech validation v joint ventures.

Over $100mm in capital raised and another $200mm in leveraged partnership capital, resources and capabilities.

Pitch Decks & Presentations

Expert at pitches, from one liners through to decks, verbal exchanges, and the like. Record was $7mm in 90 seconds from one slide. Deep training, deep VC, angel, private investor, fortune 50, strategic corporates, suppliers, customer prospects, regulatory and government, military, etc...

Over $100mm raised, over $200mm in strategic resource access and joint developments and assessments, including Fortune 50.

Idea and Business Model Development

Ideas come from understanding deeply understood, abstracted needs, their context within existing and emerging or decking trends of all kinds and then abstracting solutions and business models.

This allows for one to then develop a list under varied scenarios of the critical what must be trues for success that lead to product specification facilitating effective idea and then business model development.

In the end we’ve got a great idea and know exactly, in ranked order, what needs to be done and the targeted most efficient ways to move forward. That’s the pitch and how you win.

We are always exited to work with folks to get there quickly and to avoid the multiplicity of iterations too many encounter. You don’t want to waste your own time and money but you also don’t want to waste other folks either. We can show you how, collaboratively

Business Planning, Models and Strategy

From ecosystem abstraction and needs evaluation to abstracted specifications through to tangible business idea conception, development and vetting and validation, can assist and coach in insuring resources efficiently lead to top line winning products and services that are clearly winners that rapidly attract prospects, customer and partners that lead to rapid, appropriate, fair investment at varied value inflections through to exit. It’s all about needs and context from the various stakeholder perspectives, and that’s not simply the obvious customers and competition - especially for investors. It’s all about de-risking opportunities to improve profitability, growth and the inherent value of time to each audience.

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Adam Malofsky answered

Pitch Decks: Where can you get the most design bang for your buck?

First, forget the software, the apps, the consultants. It’s silly, to be candid. It’s the message, it’s simplicity, it’s validation and powerful differentiation expressed as simply as possible. My record is $7mm in 90 seconds on one slide. One. Ignore the hype. Please.

The best bang for your buck is to buy the series of books by Jerry Weissman on Amazon, starting with Oresentibg to Win and view all of his videos on YouTube.

https://www.amazon.com/Jerry-Weissman/e/B001H6N238%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Realize, no pitch deck will help if you do t know your own pitch, business, differentiation, have prospects, customers, etc... the folks you pitch too likely have seen thousands and if you think spinning logos, fancy graphics will help you’re done before you started.

Five slides - that’s it. Starting with the one line wow, pitch that pulls it all together - the business case, the idea, the completion, the validation.

Can we help with that? Yes. We’ve raised $100mm and much much more than that the other way - through leveraged, validating resource laden relationships with simple, elegant pitches starting with those one liners.

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Pitch Development

Graphic Design

Raising Venture Capital

Adam Malofsky answered

I´m currently looking for a consultant who can support me in reaching out to investors to close our seed round this summer.

The first thing is what is your startup? What’s do you have? The pitch, the idea, the model, the team...in others no one unless they just want to get your mo eh can help you here blind about the startup.

So pitch the folks here first. If you’ve got something good, powerfully differentiated with protection, any kind of validation plus support in your ecosystem - not just prospects but their customers as well buying in, suppliers, etc..,, then it’s far easier to get help on resources.

Notice what I said - resources. Do not ever make the assumption to go by the book. That’s wrong. The best ideas almost always attract resources - sponsoring cash, facilities, research, supply and prospect support, customers customer support. Many times you can go very far without ever needing to raise formal capital and especially from angels or VCs. The more you need that the sooner, the more likely you are less validated, not vetted or that you are inna complex, longer time and resource intensive venture.

To the former, in manufacturing, devices and materials and allied services across medical, CPG and industrial markets, we help with the finer strategy, the deals and the appropriate reach through to connections, pitching, planning and formal if needed fundraising and debt financing.

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Equity Funding

Raising Venture Capital

Adam Malofsky answered

What is the number one thing a startup founder can do to ensure a seed stage investment?

Have a customer for your customer who want the product with your stuff in it badly along with that initial prospect. You can demo and pitch and present stuff all you want. If you’ve got that kind of market interest depth and validation, you’ll get money assuming the right projected business model. Realize they can replace you - they can’t replace an invalidated idea.

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Raising Venture Capital

Venture Capital

Adam Malofsky answered

How can I find a co-founder on a very limited budget?

Why do you want one? What is your business?

Sometimes, rather than a cofounder, what are really looking for are advisors, mentors.

On the other hand, if you have an idea, but clearly need to add folks, you are going to have find someone who will fit and may want you, if you are that bedding of skill, to step aside from a professional point of view.

Then there’s simply resources. In that case it’s cash, capabilities.

In all cases, you not an earn in versus just a sudden loss of equity and or control. Could be over years and accelerated by achieving milestones and or actual cash and other resources.

Happy to have a deeper discussion, but without business knowledge, knowing who you are and what you are doing, not much can be advised honestly beyond what I just elucidated.

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Investments

Start-ups

Entrepreneurship

Adam Malofsky answered

What are people's experiences with using recycled plastics in their manufacturing?

As materials and especially polymer experts, we’ve worked on dozens of recycled plastic products.

The key first is what your product is and finding the right firms to source from relative to the desired performance and other requirements.

Often, the best strategy with said supplier regards protyping and it testing materials at low to ever increasing percentages. Far easier to begin with increasing content than 100%.

Next, post industrial recycled is far more reliable and consistent in composition, performance and quality. Post industrial are the defective parts, trimming, over molding and other scrap left over from day making a part or a product at a factory. The volumes can be huge and while many recycle their own, some find it easier to collect it and sell it to a third party for reprocessing.

Post consumer is different and usually the contamination means it’s going to repurposing, day bottles to plastic lumber or hidden furniture parts often with lower performance requirements.

As a close, color is often an issue and so most are made black and then are used in hidden parts again or coextruded for example with the outer color as desired and the interior is recycled.

Happy to help.

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