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Colin Hurd

Ames, IA

Founded and exited 2 successful Ag companies within 6 years. Completed licence deal with a $100 Mil plus agriculture equipment company. Sold second company to large publicly traded company. Was awarded Forbes 30 under 30 2019. Currently I serve on numerous startup boards and co direct a seed fund. Tons of experience with patents, contract negotiations, royalty deals, ag equipment sales and marketing, online sales and distribution, manufacturing and supplier management.
Have in depth knowledge and experience with large agriculture vehicle automation, Cloud computing, applied CNN machine vision, ag systems technology, GIS, GPS/RTK, IoT, telematics, mesh networking, advanced path planning and UAV's.
Can provide general expertise regarding all things start-up. including, Seed Funding, business plans, pitch competitions, business model canvasing, HR, recruiting, culture, Legal set-up, finance, grants, and presenting.

$5.00/min

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Start-ups Technology Agriculture Tech startups and entrepreneurship Manufacturing Business Strategy New Business Development Intellectual Property Mergers & Acquisitions Automation

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Agriculture, Food Production, Agronomy, Farming, Equipment, Investing

Over the course of the last 5 years I have developed and grown several agriculture companies which touched all aspects of the Ag industry. I have an extensive network of expertise and a lot of first hand knowledge. If you are in the Ag space and need contacts or advice I can help or put you in touch with people you can. If you are seeking capital for an agriculture related company I can also help. Lastly if you need to talk to Midwest farmers or service providers regarding a product or idea I can put you in touch with the appropriate people.

How to Actually Start and Grow a Company (No Generic BS)

I founded and exited 2 startups in 8 years so I know every challenge you face regarding starting a business from scratch and will not give you general non-specific advise. For example, are you hiring your first employee and want to have a list of everything you need to do to be prepared and how to do it? Grab a pen and give me a call. If you have have not idea on how to start a website or where to look for marketing help. I can give you a detailed list of steps to follow. Never managed engineers or software developers and want to know how to not screw it up? I can give you detailed experiences of where I did go wrong and how we changed it. Need a list of essential tools every startup should use or have? I will show you everything you need to get going. All of the resources and advice I will give are from first hand experiences not from research I have done or things I have heard from others. Most of my experiences began after struggling through tons of advise and opinions from people who did not know enough about actually running a start-up.

Agriculture Equipment Business Development

Have have over 10 years of experience in the agriculture equipment industry. I can advise on sales strategies I used to introduce a new product into the market and reach total sales of $1.5 Million within 2 years. I can also provide you access to a wide range of contacts I have in the industry from sales, technology, manufacturing, equipment dealers, and OEM's.

Intellectual Property, Patents, Licensing, Royalties.

I can provide detailed knowledge and first hand experience from a founder's and business owner's perspective of patents, trademarks, licensing deals, royalties, innovative joint IP development contracts, and the multi-year process you can expect and budget for. I am not an attorney so will not provide legal advice. I wish someone other than an attorney would have given me straight shooting easy to understand business advice regarding what to expect years ago when I filed my first Patent and signed my first licensing deal. I can also give some general ideas of best practices from a business strategy standpoint when it comes to IP and proprietary ideas.

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Colin Hurd answered

Where can I get a customized drone built?

Depending on the level of complexity that your drone will have there are plenty of places who will build them. One place that I know of is http://vision13.net/ (If you would like an introduction to them please let me know). However, if your drone is pretty simple you can often find kits from sources like www.diydrones.com which allow you to easily and simply build your own custom drone and it is very affordable!

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Wonderful insight from Colin – was very patient, transparent and open, too. Thank you very much for sharing your mind, Colin... it served as a very valuable starting point on my project!

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Greg

Greg Archbald Source: Clarity

The value I received for the time I spent with Colin far outweighed the price. Colin is a personable and articulate expert in AgTech. He understands the technologies, the business models and the industry dynamics. I highly recommend him.

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