Strategic Partner Funding:
What about contacting all the manufacturing companies you will utilize parts for both the Water Whiskers and the Surface / Subsurface. Form a strategic partnership and solicit funds from them. You are essentially becoming there sales and marketing teams.
Potential Partners:
Equipment Manufacturers
Produce Growers
Beverage Industry (sugarcane, wines, beer, fruit drinks)
Educational Facilities (colleges, vocational or trade schools, STEM schools)
Partners may already have:
Allocated funds for R&D
Allocated Funds for green initiatives
Allocated staff hours to initiatives
May have space available (office and or manufacturing) designing, assembly, storage,
Allocated materials, parts, equipment, and land to R&D and green initiatives
Companies may have greater abilities and resources to write off these expenses
Dole is using its position as one of the world's largest providers of fresh fruits and vegetables to make the planet a healthier, happier place in 2015 with "Get Up and Grow!
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Strategic Partnership Agreements:
Shared acknowledgment and links on website
Website: Logo and link on all websites
News Articles: Companies named and or logo
Blogs: Companies named and or logo
Marketing: Companies named and or logo
Proposals: Companies named and or logo
Specifications: Proprietary
What will help Strategic Partners Understand
Make it real to them
Show potential Strategic Partners Products and logos
Show Potential for growth in industry
Dole full implementation =
10k acres =
800k WW =
30million Oatey Parts sold
Show staged growth and thought out process
Modeling w Oatey parts
Test Cycle state 10 units
Small Cycle 100 units
Large Cycle production 10k units
PARTS DRAWINGS:
Having diagrammed drawings (almost like Ikea) that call s our mfg parts and numbers may help for some initial funding.
MFG PARTS LIST:
Spreadsheet with all the mfg parts listed for your tech. Something they can list and see 27 Oatey parts and 38 linear feet of Acme tubing, etc.
TESTING MODEL NUMBER AND DRAWINGS:
Provide parts mfg with estimated number of units for a test run.
Example: Dole will allow us a test site with enough room for 10 units. That’s 270 Oatey Parts and 380 Linear Feet of Acme Tubing.
POTENTIAL SMALL WORKING MODEL NUMBERS AND DRAWINGS:
Provide parts mfg with estimated number of units for a test run.
Example: Dole grants us a small model run site with enough room for 100 units. That’s 2700 Oatey Parts and 3800 Linear Feet of Acme Tubing.
POTENTIAL IDEAL WORKING MODEL NUMBERS AND DRAWINGS:
Provide parts mfg with estimated number of units for a test run.
Example: Dole entire fields approval for full scale implementation with enough room for 100,000 units. That’s 2,700,000 Oatey Parts and 3,800,000 Linear Feet of Acme Tubing.