Archive for January, 2005
RFID Development Kit Update
By Harish Keshwani at 25 January, 2005, 10:22 pm
If you recall my post about RFID Development Kit blog, I had appealed to vendors about providing an evaluation kit. Anita Campbell from RFID-Weblog had posted similar appeal. I had also emailed to various vendors about the kits. Finally, I received one response. This vendor has agreed to provide the kit. Once I receive this [...]
Tips to Approach Venture Capitalists
By Harish Keshwani at 21 January, 2005, 10:23 pm
This is a continuation of my yesterday’s post.
Venture Capitalists are very busy people. It is always a good idea to rehearse your meeting in the privacy of your own office and time yourself while describing salient points about your company. That brings us to first tip:
Be prepared!
It is a well known fact that [...]
Business of Selecting and Approaching Venture Capitalist
By Harish Keshwani at 20 January, 2005, 10:33 pm
Now that the Business Plan is made, Vendors are selected, next step is to approach Venture Capitalists with a Business Plan and get some finance to get the business started. Ideally a real business would first get started with their own funds and with loans from banks or angel investors, but then we are not [...]
Vendor Analysis
By Harish Keshwani at 17 January, 2005, 10:01 pm
I have presented three vendor profiles so far. Next I will compare them and then select one as a primary vendor and other two as backups.
Features
Vendor One
Vendor Two
Vendor Three
RFID Sales (Annual)
$2,200 million
$1,500 million
$50 million
Tag Volume (Annual)
200 million
150 million
10 million
Transponders
125/134.2 kHz, 13.56 MHz and UHF
433.92 MHz
433.92 MHz
Readers Range
450 feet
250 feet
250 feet
Terms
Credit until project implementation
120 days [...]
Vendor number 3 Profile
By Harish Keshwani at 13 January, 2005, 9:11 pm
Profile: RFID VendorThree Inc. is a new entrant to RFID market and is looking to establish relationships with integrators. They have a reasonable production facility. Being new in market, they are willing to bend over backwards to provide best possible product, service and terms. Some risks are involved but I presume this feeling [...]
