mike knapp

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Composer Cats and Opera Mice, LLC

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Location: Aspen
Industry: Entertainment
Year Founded: 2011
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Growth (profitable)
Entity Type: Limited Liability Company
Description: Composer Cats and Opera Mice, LLC is a children's' entertainment company. Our market is educational toys and books for ages 2 to 7 placing us precisely between Baby Einstein and American Girl, the two most successful independent start ups in the industry's history. Concept: 13 classical composers and 13 operas in which all the composers are cats and the opera troupes are mice. Each Composer Cat and selected Opera Mouse is a 10 inch plush with a musical chip for sale separately. Each Composer Cat and Opera Mice troupe has a full size, hard cover, dust jacket book in full color, telling an exciting story about the Composer Cat based on the life and work of the composer. This great fun and educational - the most toy and book for the buck in these tough economic times. Market: Parents and family of children looking for the most entertaining toy and book as well as educational. It helps fill the void left in schools and provides the most value for the buck. The market is $32,000,000,000 annually and has not fallen significantly during the recession. Marketing Plan: Direct internet sales are perfect and are the highest margin sales. Cooperative marketing ventures with symphonies and orchestra are an easy start. The joint email campaign will allow the purchasers, a targeted market, to purchase online. We have started a network of Moms for Mozart who will sell for commission at home parties. The toys and books are excellent for the school and home school market. Retail outlets and/or large box stores are a second tier step. Viral internet sales are also a first line target using the various social medias to create demand. Projections. We expect to gross $60,000,000 in year five and grow faster afterwards. Interactive Internet: Our interactive site will sell livning books for download or CD as well as music downloads to the MP3 players in the next generation plushes. One time downloads and permanent downloads of the books will be available. Articles to add to the play time will be available, like our pop up stage. The Interactive Internet is a monster profit center as the product, once produced, is virtually cost free. Company value; The company owns all the IP, protected by copyright and Trademark. The cost value is over $1,000,000. Status: The company has fully produced and manufactured the first plush and Book with CD known as Mozart Cat. You may see them or buy them at mozartcat.com. Figaro Mouse is produced and ready for manufacture and the corresponding book, The Barber of Seville, is in production now. The CDs are narrated by the international Maestro James Conlon of the L.A. Opera and Philharmonic. Current Sales: Composer Cat Mozart Book, Cd and plush is for sale on line at mozartcat.com. The products are also on sale in many iconic venues such as The Kennedy Center, The Met, The New York Museum of Art, the Julliard School of Music, the L.A. Phil and Opera, Tattered Cover in Denver and several other chosen independent book stores and many other venues. Capital Need and Uses: The capital request is $2,000,000 to be used for inventory, sales staff and promotion. Composer Cats and Opera Mice is a company already operating in production and sales. The products will be sold in every media platform from toys to interactive website to television specials and series (a Christmas special is arlready written) and all internationally as the subject matter is popular in Europe, Asia and South America. Our story is much bigger than this note. Kindly call or write: knappfirm@aol.com or Mike at: 161 581 3613.