HighTechSearch

Our Company: HighTechSearch was founded in 1982 as an Executive Search Company , because of its many client contacts which were accumulated over time. HighTech has been able to provide organizational consulting services, funding sources and business brokerage. The insight gained as an active member of the High-Technology industry we have been able to assist with private sourcing venture capital partnerships that provides entrepreneurs with the experience, resources, teamwork and vision required to turn new ideas and technologies into successful businesses.

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Working with Entrepreneurs :

High-Tech focuses on companies with unique, technology-driven products and services that address well-defined needs in rapidly growing markets. Specifically, we look for entrepreneurs whose companies have the potential to achieve a market capitalization of more than $50 million in five years. We know from experience that most successful companies begin with an entrepreneur, a technology and an idea.

For that reason, High-Tech prefers to assist in providing investment funds in the early stages of a company's development, from seed capital to second-round financing, where our experience and funding resources can make a strong contribution.

The broad areas that comprise HighTech's dedicated expertise are in the state-of the-art information, commercial and military electronics and Bio-medical/healthcare technologies.

Information Technology

HighTech's broad range of expertise in the information technology arena enables us to add considerable value to the portfolio companies we assist in acquiring investment funds. Our leadership and experience provides us with a significant array of contacts across the electronics industry to help entrepreneurs in their quest to build successful businesses with long-term value.

Our company targets both private investors and investment companies in information technology and focus mainly on three technological areas: Communications, software and semiconductors.

We believe that growth in the communications market continues to be fueled by the promise of worldwide connectivity provided by the Internet, and by the promise of interactive digital media. Software is a fundamental technology, much like semiconductors, and is the driving force behind new computer and communication architectures, in particular the Internet. HighTech sees opportunity by focusing on businesses that solve mission-critical problems by providing software-based middleware, tools, applications, and online services. High-Tech also believes there is opportunity in Internet-based online services that provide education and entertainment to mass market consumers.

Biomedical/Healthcare Technology

HighTech's history of funding sources in medical device and biopharmaceutical Technical arena has been broadened in recent years to include healthcare services and healthcare information systems. Our investment company contacts see a particularly high potential for investing in products and services that address unsolved chronic clinical needs, such as those faced by the ever increasing elderly population. We also focus on companies that are developing products with the capability to improve the outcome of catastrophic occurrences, such as strokes and cardiac arrests.

HighTech dedicates significant resources to building biomedical/healthcare companies in their early stages, working to incubate concepts from the bench to the bedside and transforming scientific and technical leadership into business success. In addition, we enable our healthcare partners to leverage the advantages of information technology by providing them with our unique expertise in understanding how to utilize enterprise software and communications tools to increase efficiency and patient outcomes.

Our Client companies are seeking people with very high ethics. People who take great care in their involvement with other human beings. People who are highly motivated, and that motivation should be to produce the finest company that anybody ever worked in. If they do hat, they'll prosper.

What HighTech Gives to Companies: HighTech offers much more than sources of finance. We also provide team building services, management and operations assistance, prestigious University incubator contacts, and the added value that springs from our many alliances and affiliations with industry leaders in the investment and technological community.

For more about HighTech's Resources, please read:

- Global Contacts

- Team Building

- Management and Operations Assistance

- Financing

- Incubation

Global Contacts

HighTech's extensive track record and experience has enabled us to cultivate a wide range of contacts to help grow the businesses in which we invest. These contacts include business and technical leaders throughout the industry who provide additional expertise that complements our core capabilities. Mindful that all business is based on personal relationships, we sponsor numerous events such as CEO dinners and specialized conferences that bring like minded companies and people together to help expand the horizons of our partnerships. By extending our services through these activities, we're able to provide our portfolio companies with value that goes well beyond HighTech itself.

Team Building

Building a qualified management team is one of the keys to carving out a competitive profile and developing a successful business. HighTech is adept at helping entrepreneurs to staff important positions in their new companies with people of the highest caliber. We've always maintained a strong focus on assisting with organizational strategy, CEO personal development, needs assessment, and the tracking, hiring and retaining of superior people for our portfolio companies.

Management and Operations Assistance

The High-Tech team has substantial experience in offering management and operations assistance to our startup company clients, many of which are staffed primarily with technical personnel who may require support in these areas. We tailor our assistance to meet the specific needs of early-stage companies, helping with financing strategies and mergers and acquisitions. We assist in managing such facets as technology assessment and licensing, product definition and differentiation, research and development, regulatory and manufacturing issues, and sales and marketing. Equally important, we know how to assist entrepreneurs in managing short-term, tactical issues while continuing to maintain a focus on long-term, strategic goals.

Financing

Customarily, our sources invest in a company in its early stages of development, usually in the $2 million to $5 million range. We typically function as the facilitator during initial and future rounds, when additional capital is required and the opportunity has proven itself as a viable investment. In these capacities, we help entrepreneurs to obtain their total funding requirements by working with investors, co-investors, lending institutions, leasing companies and investment .

Incubation

High-Tech is well known for a unique incubation process designed to help develop ideas from the ground up, often well in advance of the inception of a new company. In some cases, incubation entails securing facilities and staff support to help establish a new enterprise. In addition to with the basic essentials that every company needs to operate effectively, our approach to incubation enables entrepreneurs to work directly with HighTech's staff partners, and to take advantage of the wealth of management, marketing and strategic counsel they provide.

Evaluation

To make a decision about a new opportunity, we must evaluate the idea, the technology, the markets and the people. We believe the key is direct contact with entrepreneurs. If the concept and market are promising, HighTech will meet with the entrepreneurs to discuss the company's funding strategy and operating plan in detail. At an early stage of discussion, we may involve an outside consultant who is expert in the specific technology or target market area. We will talk frequently with the management team to understand the depth of its motivation, goals and capabilities, and to develop a greater understanding of the technology, markets and products under consideration. We will also check industry and personal references provided by management.

Business Plan

If a business plan is available, we review it carefully, and it is often the starting point for our evaluation. An effective business plan should be a working document rather than simply a sales tool, and should clearly describe the technology, products, market opportunity, strategy, operations, management and financials. If no plan has been drafted, we often provide significant assistance in developing the plan. In the final stages of evaluations, HighTech's staff makes a decision together.

HighTech's strategic focus always has been on technology driven opportunities created by people who are visionaries in their field whose ideas are a beacon for the future. We are looking for entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists with proprietary technologies that address rapidly growing markets. Products or product development strategies should address specific and well defined market needs, with strong differentiation and barriers to entry. Ideally, we look for entrepreneurs whose companies have the potential to achieve a minimum market capitalization of $50 million in five years. Our clients usually prefer to invest in the early stages of a company's development, from seed to second round. We focus predominantly on seed opportunities because our experience and resources can make the strongest contribution here. We believe each opportunity is unique, so we weigh criteria according to the specific proposal. We know from experience that most successful companies begin simply with an entrepreneur, a technology and a vision.

Our goal is to help start and help new companies to grow, not merely launch products. We believe working with high caliber people is the key to building a superior business. While a proprietary core technology or highly distinctive product/service line and rapidly growing markets are critical, the factor High-Tech weighs most heavily is the people behind the idea. Our clients look for individuals with exceptional technical and leadership skills, and the dedication and vision to achieve their goals.

Each investment decision is a mutual one that marks the beginning of a long, close relationship between an entrepreneur and a venture capital firm. The entrepreneur should look for a firm with a history of leadership and success, which can best be measured by the success of other companies with which the firm has worked. The breadth of service and support a firm can provide should also be carefully evaluated.

Further, in today's accelerating and expanding technology marketplace, an international network of contacts has become increasingly critical. We believe HighTech sets the standard in all of these areas. Just as HighTech will evaluate the people behind the idea as carefully as the idea itself, so too should the entrepreneur make a careful evaluation of High-Tech client companies, in addition to the resources and capabilities we can provide. The entrepreneur should look for a genuine commitment to the kind of partnership that nurtures a young company: a partnership with empathy as well as expertise. We believe that the relationship between HighTech and the entrepreneur must be based, above all, on mutual trust, mutual confidence and mutual respect.

Information:

HighTechSearch.Net, Inc.

c/o Al Minutoli, CEO

Delray Beach, Fl. 33482

E-mail: staffing@hightechsearch.net

Phone: (561) 496-1657

Fax: (561) 496-1657