Areas of Our Consultancy

NSTC provides global Nanotechnology business intelligence & consulting services to industry & investors.

NSTC’s aim is to identify the trend early and size the market accurately. Connect the people that matter and guide the decisions that form the nanotechnology landscape and identify the Nanotechnology opportunities and areas applicable. NSTC also provide key information for investors, executives, analysts, consultants and govt. policy makers enabling them to understand and take advantage of the opportunities offered by this revolution.

NSTC offers a step-by-step approach for bringing nanotechnology research from the lab to a commercial enterprise. Depending on their current status and internal resources, Clients can select some or all of the following:

·         Competitive Positioning - to find a long term sustainable position that maximizes commercial potential

·         Validation of R&D - to focus research activities and protect intellectual property

·         Marketing - with complete marketing plans and communications programs

·         Operations Ramp Up - to evolve the research output from lab activities to mass production and related staffing

·         Financing - by raising funding for continuing research, marketing and operations

Our initiative will help medium & long-term Nano-scale research and development leading to potential breakthroughs in areas such as energy, chemicals, biotechnology, agriculture, medicine and healthcare, environment, information technology, national security, materials and manufacturing and Nanoelectronics.

The effect of nanotechnology on the health, wealth, and lives of people could be at least as significant as the combined influences of microelectronics, medical imaging, computer-aided engineering, and man-made polymers developed in this century.

NSTC's professional services range from helping you make key decisions to taking complete outsourcing responsibility for planning and implementation in the following areas:

a) Business Planning & Strategy

NSTC delivers customized strategies including complete business plans for ventures or corporate divisions. We advise specific actions for entering new markets, launching a product, raising money, or improving revenues to immediately improve your business. Our business strategy services include:

·   Development & diagnosis of optimal Business Plan & Strategy from consideration of multiple options

·   Package your technology venture and deal structure

·   Our business strategy services work with the organizations and the technology startup teams to plan their product and market roadmaps

·   Competitive market intelligence to find out competitors' products, services, strategy, positioning, etc. through primary or secondary research

·   Assess the technological, marketing etc. risk and controlling these risks

b) Financing

NSTC devises creative financing approaches that package technology ventures for specific investor objectives. We can provide you securing equity and other financing from private placements, banks, leasing firms and government sources. NSTC can help you with:

• How to write a business plan that wrap up technology ventures for specific investor objectives and to secure financing from private banks, leasing firms and government sources. NSTC will draw from a business plan to identify competitive strategy, products, technology vision, partners, organization, processes, patents, production approach, risk contingencies, and other strategic issues.

• How the venture is packaged to demonstrate future success and reasonable risk. This includes a clearly defined market opportunity, effective and protected technology that satisfies a commercial need, appropriate competitive positioning of the venture for future sustainability, a plan for producing the technology in high volume applications, and detailed financials showing how the investment will be spent. 
• NSTC will develop financial models for projecting revenue from product sales and technology licensing, and also include costs, income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow. This will be used to show the growth of a prospective investment, along with the sources and uses of funds. 
  
• How to obtain loans and/or leases from commercial and government sources for Project & Equipment Financing. 
  
• Identify key parameters and comparable transactions for company valuation. Broker technology, product lines and ventures for sale or liquidation. 
  
• Conduct in-depth business and technical due diligence on multiple dimensions of selected technology ventures, including market opportunity and strategy, technology, management, legal structure, financial strategy and valuation. Prepare diagnostics on troubled investments with detailed recommendations.

 c) Marketing & Communications

NSTC’s High end Technology marketing consultants have the technology depth and background to fully understand the value of your offering and your customer's purchasing criteria. We will supply you the vital information needed to authenticate product/service characteristics, improve revenue models, qualify acquisition targets, develop major sales opportunities, establish effective distribution channels/partners, and create a clear and convincing message to communicate to the market. This research is based on in-depth interviews with industry leaders, strategic customers and your competitors' top managers. 

·         NSTC does the Market Study to Find the opportunities in the market and position and package your offering. We develop sales and marketing tactics and identify business and distribution partners for you. We also calculate the required investment and expected return. 

·         NSTC develops the Marketing Plan for you to position and package your offering and to develop sales and marketing tactics. It also helps you to identify business and distribution partners. 

·         We develop your brochures, spec sheets, white papers, presentations, client stories, newsletter, mailers, prospectus content, technical articles, etc to pitch a clear and convincing message using the medium and presentation style best suited for each intended audience.  

·         NSTC can also help you in Web site Development by building up your web site's content, look and strategy that fulfills the needs of each perspective in the buying process, investors, media and partners.  

·         NSTC can develop bidding strategy and proposals that increase your chances of winning. 

·         NSTC can help you to launch a first-of-a-kind technology and to enter new markets. We can also help you if you are not satisfied with your current marketing results. 

·         NSTC contacts selected companies, presents your product to them and discusses the potential application. If the user is interested in the technology we organize the meetings for you and you just have to conduct further negotiations. 

·         NSTC finds out which products are of most use to the customer. Where are new groups of customers and fields of application to be found and what are the customers' requirements and what product-related demands are they making? 

·         NSTC can help you to sell your products and services and to find the right positioning for your offering. NSTC explains the benefits of your solution in a series of collateral and media that address the specific needs of each person in the buying process. Outputs include spec sheets for specifiers, white papers for technical evaluators, ROI calculations and customer testimonials for financial analysts, and other important documents, web pages, videos, magazine articles and ads.  

d) NSTC for Nanotechnology Start-ups

 All manufacturing companies, due to unavoidable commoditization, drive to continually renew their product line. Nanotechnology can help in modifying products to increase margins and desirability. Companies active in certain markets and serving familiar customers can continue their presence by improving their own products rather than be displaced by products of new players.

 NSTC can help the Nanotechnology Start-ups to find markets for new products enabled by nanotechnology advances. NSTC will help to assess competitive strength against current products and players. NSTC also helps to find out alliances, e.g., with major corporations who have market presence and manufacturing technology.

NSTC can help to search for resources to continue to flourish and grow revenues and generate profits from angels and venture capital firms, from major corporations seeking technical/product diversification and from government sources. 

Ø       Financial Interests: Angels, Venture Capital, and Commercial Lenders

·         Understanding the difficult to ignore enthusiastic activity

·         Looking for sound investments amid the gold rush

·         Requires deeper and broader cross-disciplinary expertise than other technology investments

·         Due diligence in investigating claims

·         Confirming the validity of applications and market interest

·         Verifying the time horizons for technical solutions and revenue generation

·         Identifying the show stoppers

·         Checking the reputation of start-up team members

·         Finding future team leaders and members 

Ø       Law Firms

·         Assisting in creating new intellectual property: technical due diligence

·         Verifying the novelty and utility of the inventions

·         Protecting Intellectual Property

·         Verifying interference and infringement

·         Mapping the competitive landscape for deals

·         Providing expert testimony

·         Qualifying risks, e.g., explosion, environmental and toxicological 

Ø       Government, Universities

·         Promoting regional employment growth

·         Validating the viability of new businesses in incubators

·         Seeking suitable alliances and favorable terms

·         Finding leadership and team members for spin offs

·         Generating interest on the part of future customers, corporate collaboration

·         Enhancing interstate and interdepartmental collaboration

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