Ray W Nettleton LLC Entrepreneur

04/20/07

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For start-up companies and entrepreneurs seeking to start a company:

Consulting Services:

  • New product conception & market/performance analysis

  • Critical design reviews

  • Patentability analysis and preliminary patent drafting

  • Evaluation of technical & marketing concept, business model

  • Advising on technology & engineering choices

  • Advising on production/distribution partners

  • Preparation of RFIs, RFPs, evaluation of tenders, procurement negotiation

  • Evaluation of intellectual property, patentability, prior art and competitive approaches

  • Technical input to Pro Forma business plan: capital and operating expenditures

  • Assisting in production of Investment Memorandum and Road Show presentation

  • Road Show participant before investors during fundraising phases

  • Early-phase (pre-operations) CTO role

  • Board member

Relevant Experience:

 

  • Invented the first CDMA cellular telephone system, patented 1978.  Client: Purdue Research Foundation.

  • Invented a covert airborne 60GHz voice modem using FFT for Doppler tracking in flight. Client: Litton Amecom

  • Invented an early "smart tag" for field-powered labeling (RFI) of goods and containers. Client: Litton Industries

  • Co-founder of Formus ($1B valuation); one of three authors of the Formus business plan, as the technical representative

  • Evaluated and advised on choices of wireless technology for multiple startups. Scores of sources evaluated from startups to Fortune 500.  Clients: Clearwire, Formus, WisperTel, Wireless Spectrum Technologies, MCI, several confidential clients also

  • Linked up start-up companies with supply and distribution channels. Clients: Vesuvius, Formus

  • Driven many procurement cycles; RFI, RFP, tender evaluation, for wireless equipment and operational services.  Clients: U S WEST, Formus, MCI

  • Advised startups concerning validity and protection of intellectual property.  Clients: Vesuvius, Wireless Spectrum Technology, Sindhara Supermedia

  • Capex / Opex modeling for: Booz | Allen | Hamilton, U S WEST International, MCI, Meridian Communications, Formus, United International Holdings

  • Contributed technical sections of Investment Memoranda - Seed, A, B, C - for Formus Communications

  • Participated in A, B, C round road shows for Formus Communications

  • Startup-phase CTO for Formus, Sindhara Supermedia, Meridian, Wireless Spectrum Technologies

  • Board member of Sindhara Supermedia, Meridian, Wireless Spectrum Technologies, APAC

     

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