Derrick Murphy ⋅ Douglasville , GA U.S. Army, Sergeant ⋅ 9 years served

Thank you everyone who gave me excellent advise. I am sorry, but My non profit is a hybrid an need start up funds in order to apply for federal & state grants for GOTV (Get out the vote) campaign. Also my non profit model have four stream of revenue, but in order to receive any revenue my non profit need the equipment 1st for operations. All I need is someone who will take a look at my business plan and believe in this new, innovating out the box ideal, help secure the equipment to make future progress.

Brian Roosevelt ⋅ Marshfield , MA IBM ⋅ 20 years experience

Derrick,

Got a biz plan? How much do you want to raise? lol Start-ups are awesome. I've done a few myself at different stages. One of the first start-ups I did was right after college with three other people called Team Campaign. In 1994, we built a GOTV technology using a relational database technology (big of the time) with a beautiful GUI where were able to use scientific methods of political science to send our candidate to the right homes for walking campaigns, identify issues in neighborhoods, know who votes and how frequent in election cycles, validate polling numbers, call the right voters, etc. My experience is that while we had a great technology and we were leading edge at the time, we found it hard to meet our revenue numbers from politicians and lawyers who didn't want to PAY for the technology. They loved using it but it when it came to writing a big check, they just didn't have the budget.

I've written a few business plans and some Angel investors will fund non-profits if it meets there social goals. There are also new hybrid tax status scenarios similar to non-profit depending in what state you file that might be more appealing to your business plan.

Don't lose track of new 'crowdfunding' options too which you can google on the web to raise small amounts of money from a broad set of investors. Crowdfunding is quickly becoming the new 'Angel' round because many of the new ideas tend to need just a few dollars to get going like an App so it makes perfect sense to have a market place where people compete to give you money vs. the other way around. Depending on how much you need to raise, this could be a great method. Hope this helps and Thank You for your service, its greatly appreciated!

bsr