Thomas Wolfgram
Saint Paul, MN (USA)
Role(s):
Other
USA VALUES, LLC
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Startup
Location:
Saint Paul
Industry:
Technology/Web
Year Founded:
2012
Number Employees:
1-10 people
Business Stage:
Growth (not profitable)
Entity Type:
Limited Liability Company
Description:
My company, USA VALUES, LLC, is looking for $5,000,000 in small business funding in order to grow our advertising startup. (first step of funding is $2,000,000) USA VALUES, LLC is located in Woodbury, MN and is in startup phase. We are interested in angel and private equity financing. The funds will primarily be used for payroll, sales & marketing and social market development. Multi-location partnerships and affiliations required to grow rapidly in the nation through a license like model will require later staged investments. The company will grow to:
Year \Sales \ EBIT
5 years \ $25,000,000 \ $4,000,000
10 years \ $96,000,000 \ $20,000,000
Uniquely the company places USA Veterans into local business as a step within that design.
II The Elevator Pitch
Problem
Each year 2,000,000 kids show up behind the “C” curve for public education and 1,000,000 of those will be hopelessly behind (never a positive expectation) at the end of the 3rd grade. The middle courage to intrude from the bottoms up individually one size fits one is the key to a private sector ROI that changes everything. Middle courage needs the not so obvious first things first right the first time (FTFRTFT) thinking to work against the extremes in a social not political positioning. The fix is in, it is cheap, simple, no choice, can’t fail fun. But the fix (solution) needs to be twisted in the grassroots with Tom Sawyer Whitewash (work is fun) and freakonomic understanding of externalities. Our public systems and schools still teach many most at risk age 0-6 children the “old way”. The new money to transition this to current is being hidden from the grassroots by the “systems”. The new money is already in the "system".
Solution
We will twist the cheap, simple, no choice, can’t fail FUN FIX nationally and in the grassroots to cause the powerful decision makers in suburban and urban locations to Adapt High Quality FTFRTFT thinking to deliver 100% of the at risk children to kindergarten ready to read, count and understand positive direction. This will meet exactly the local school district requirement built into the continuous improvement process designed to pay for the 21st century Prek effort. Savings and innovation in the K-12 traditional effort district by district will result.
The effort to patch this requirement into the taxpayer and school districts and local government systems requires a local executive US Military Veteran in a private sector advertising media business owned at the “state level” by an online communications expertise. Importantly these will be private sector businesses giving rise to important business contacts at the local and state level. This positioning creates significant online and traditional influence over the use of FTFRTFT thinking.
There are many national and local organizations (1,000 to 10,000) that are on this point of earlier is better without the benefit of seeing it as a FTFRTFT High Quality issue. We will help those in the grassroots to decide to present, continue to present and use FTFRTFT to address the gaps in economics, education, emotions and ethics growth.
Size
Using Minnesota as an example; this is a $15,000,000 sales business with 13 locally operated territories based on the number of households. The nation has 60 state level territories the size of Minnesota. The internet is now providing international exposure to the concepts of FTFRTFT, ERSD-RA, PVofPE-Prek. Google them, and use twitter @tdwusavalues, @eeeeinndc and @usavalues to note the messages being used to draw attention to the draft positions of (URL removed) and (URL removed).
The at risk continuously entering the “system” creates a significant large attention growing market. Tighter federal, state and local budgets for the nation will keep the issues front and center locally and ultimately will ring the nation with the concept of generic FTFRTFT change.
One Sentence Pitch
USA VALUES, LLC is selling traditional positioning, messaging and advertising that additionally supports the unique public service message to moms (including those of at risk children) in the community that ready to read skills are critically important (first things first) to the success of the child, parent, K-12 schools and the community.