3DBD - Your Strategic Growth Partner

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Your Strategic Growth Partner

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What Would You Do with

a Major Cash

Infusion?


What Are Your Most Urgent Strategic Needs?

Opportunities Afraid to Miss

Competitive Threats

Key ProjectFunding

Best Value Enhancer

How Long Will The Window Stay Open?


What if we could help you achieve your strategic goals …

… without the huge cash infusion ...(money is scarce and expensive)

… and more quickly …(timing can be everything)


What if we could help you achieve your strategic goals ….

… without the huge cash infusion ...(money is scarce and expensive)

… and more quickly …(timing can be everything)

… through strategic initiatives thatdrive growth and value?


How Best to Address Your Strategic Needs?Initiative Pros Cons Timing Costs

Do nothing Easy Stagnation Miss windows Huge lost opportunity

Organic Growth Familiar Slow In-grown

Gradual, slow Can be expensive

Enhance Operating Efficiencies

Free bottom-line gain

Modest impact Gradual, slow Modest

Acquisition/Merger

Fast,Leveraged

Management drain;

Integration risks

Moderate to fast Expensive

Financing Fast Expense Relatively fast Can be expensive

Licensing & Technology Transfer

Fast,Leveraged

Can be complicated

Relatively fast Modest

Alliances/JVs Fast, Leveraged

Need to manage exit

Relatively fast Modest


Why Alliances?

Often the fastest, most cost-effective way to fill a strategic gap.

• Cut time-to-market using existing resources• Save development costs• Leverage core competencies• Speed learning curve• Avoid having to “invent new wheel”


Are you resource constrained?Is There Too Much to Do / Not Enough Time?

Understaffed to Reach Goals• Reluctant to Hire Back Fixed Costs• Looking for Variable Cost Solution

Market Pressures Profits• Need to Ramp Up Profitably• Increase Customer / Market Competitiveness

Business Development Boost• Need to Accelerate Growth• Improve Profit from Current Assets


Our Passion Helping companies flourish via strategic initiatives designed to create

and accelerate growth.

What We Do Plan, develop, implement and manage strategic initiatives to leverage key competencies, fill strategic gaps, seize opportunities and defuse competitive threats.

How We Serve

As outsourced global Business Development and CFO resources for companies of all types - emerging, private equity, publicly traded, and offshore.

Who We Are Highly-experienced business development, technology, and financial professionals with over 70 years of combined experience helping companies grow through strategic developments.

How We Add Value

By helping your company leverage core competencies into activities that drive success in profitable growth areas to enhance business vitality and valuation.

How We Help Companies Grow


A Flexible Resourcefor Strategic Growth

Contract for just what you

needZero added headcount

Variable (vs. fixed) cost

StrategicInitiatives

Strategic Goals

Even if you’d like to build alliances yourself …… do you have the bandwidth?

… the experience?… the focus?

… the connections?

Let us be your as-needed Business Development department or CFO

Or supplement and complement your Biz Dev and CFO team

Tailored compensation


Springboard to Growth

Business Development Services to grow your company through strategic alliances, joint ventures, licensing and tech transfers, acquisitions and divestitures.

CFO Services to achieve your strategic growth, profitability, cash-flow, capital-raising, and valuation goals.

Shareholder Value

You already have most of what

you need

Core Competencies

and what partners may

want

Enhanced success in high-growth, high

return areas

Strategic initiativeslaunch success & growth


Your Strategic Growth PartnersKent Larson, Principal - Business counsel & strategic development professionalKent has been engaged by technology-oriented companies -- both as an attorney and as a business development professional – to help build and manage strategic business arrangements, intellectual assets and technology transfers.

Bob Keller , Principal - Business Development ExecutiveBob Keller has been engaged by technology-oriented organizations -- as a business development professional, as an attorney, and in other high-impact roles – to help build and manage strategic relationships.

Mark Borman , Principal - CFO / Board Member / AdvisorMark ‘s comprehensive CFO competencies help you achieve strategic growth, profitability, cash-flow, capital-raising, and valuation goals. His career ranges from startup, private equity, IPO to publicly traded companies.

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Business DevelopmentGrow through strategic alliances, joint ventures, licensing and tech

transfers, acquisitions and divestitures CFO Services

Facilitate the achievement of strategic growth, profitability, cash-flow, capital-raising, and

valuation goals

Operations ConnectionsExtensive network of CXOs, direct reports and consultants to drive

growth and valuations by increasing sales, profitability and

cash-flows

Funding ConnectionsNationwide network of investment & commercial bankers to provide growth advisory services & fund

organic/strategic growth initiatives

Your Strategic Growth Resource


Deep Connectionsto Accelerate and Fund Growth

Nationwide network of investment / commercial bankers• Provide growth advisory services & funding• Organic growth initiatives, M&A transactions, equity / debt offerings, and credit lines

Extensive network of CXOs, direct reports and consultants• Operations, R&D, finance, sales, marketing, HR, and IT • Drive future growth and valuations by increasing sales, profitability and cash-flows

Accelerate with 3DBD’s Network


Project Examples Business Development Services CFO Services

Strategic alliance involving exclusive in-licensing of pioneering technologyDevelopment of licensing relationship with North American partner for European controls companySearch for and development of licensing relationship with North American partner for European software developerMonetization of intellectual property assetsMulti-product, strategic development and licensing agreement coupled with a strategic investment

$4m equity investmentDevelopment, transfer and licensing of high performance electronics technologyStrategic alliances involving Indian, Japanese and European technology companies M&A stock deal valued at $280MStrategic in-licensing and equity relationship involving a major medical research institution Research and development contracts with agencies of the US Government

Achieve strategic growth, profitability, cash-flow, capital-raising, and valuation goals

Accelerate strategic, operational and financial initiatives

Increase operating, cash-flow, working capital efficiencies

Capital Raising/Valuations

Financial/Strategic Planning

Business/Competitive Analysis

Due Diligence ReviewsInvestor/Bank Relations


Key attributes and differentiatorsWhile there are many business consulting firms, very few have all these traits:

• Emphasis on growth through external relationships

• Multi-dimensional (“3D”) background and perspective – in business, technology, financial, legal – critical to strategic success

• Broad-based perspective, from “big picture” to the “details”

• Capabilities covering complete range of business development activities

• Focus on success in all time frames – immediate, short-term, medium-term, long-term, exit

• Global orientation and experience

• In appropriate cases, willingness to share risks/rewards via flexible compensation

A Passion for Helping Companies Grow

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… How can we help drive growth for you?

3DBD Principals have worked on deals that havegenerated hundreds of millions of dollars of value …


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3DBD - Your Strategic Growth Partner