PTV's
Recent Success
Stories. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Technology Startup
Turnaround
Business planning and new market
development
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV created and implemented a strategy to sell
the market-ready technology solution of a Vancouver-area startup. PTV
designed all aspects of the reinvention of the business and all its processes.
|
|
|
|
|
Web Site Development
Business
New Market Ghost Key
and analysis
TOP ::
HOME
|
Designed the pitch and value proposition of a
web site development business based in the interior of BC. Pitch
included training and market definition questions. |
|
|
|
|
Small Business Web Portal
Advisory
Stakeholder map
TOP ::
HOME
|
Advised a partnership on aspects of stakeholder
position and interests.
|
|
|
|
|
Sulphur industry business
and financing plan
Business planning
TOP ::
HOME
|
Rewrote a business plan for a startup sulphur
operation in advance of financing.
|
|
|
|
|
Coal Sector Business
Development
Institutional and
government relations
TOP ::
HOME
|
On behalf of large coal purchasers, PTV is
developing agency agreements designed to result in the financing of large coal
projects. |
|
|
|
|
Business Development
Consultancy Marketing Focus
New Market Ghost Key
TOP ::
HOME
|
Advised on the pitch and value proposition of a
new mid-range business services consultancy based in Vancouver.
|
|
|
|
|
Agriculture Technology
Development Agreement
Government Relations
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV negotiated part of a government partnership
with an agriculture technology firm. The partnership was finalized
directly between the parties. |
|
|
|
|
Human Resources Solution
Institutional Sale
Institutional Relations
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV designed an institutional relations approach
for a human resources outsourcing solution. The PTV solution aimed at
developing a sale with a particular partner. |
|
|
|
|
E-business Planning and
Second-Round Financing
Internet Privacy Service: Financing
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV developed, from scratch,
the business plan for a successful Internet venture. The company
followed PTV's recommendations by focusing on its core business and avoiding
costly forays into other markets, and was profitable with over $2 million in
revenues and 15 employees as of that time.
The PTV business plan was
used to complete a round of financing.
|
|
|
|
|
Financing and Purchase of an Operating Business
Maple Leaf Adventures Business Purchase
TOP ::
HOME
|
The vessel Maple Leaf is a coastal icon - a true made-in-BC
success story. The 97-year-old vessel was recently purchased by Qualamish
Adventures Ltd (operating as
Maple Leaf
Adventures). Pacific Technology Ventures was instrumental in the purchase
planning stage and in building a credible shareholders' package. PTV's CEO
Cameron St. John is currently serving as Chairman of the new company.
|
|
|
|
|
Setting up a Venture Capital Fund
Business Planning
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV developed a business plan, which was adopted, for a
successful internet/high tech venture capital fund based in California and
funded in Australia. The fund was an early investor in anonymizer.com,
paypal.com, and a number of other internet success stories.
|
|
|
|
|
Infrastructure Project Development
Public-private Partnerships
TOP ::
HOME |
PTV works with overseas conglomerates interested in
investing in BC, particularly in projects requiring complex relations with the
Provincial government. BC's new Public-Private Partnership program is of
particular interest to these clients. PTV has given presentations to
executives from some of the world's most prestigious construction companies
and financiers on this issue.
|
|
|
|
|
Resource Sector Startup Planning
Institutional Relations and Financing
TOP ::
HOME |
PTV enhanced a plan for a mine tailings reprocessing
operation by finding an institutional partner and developing a message and
financing strategy to explain why the partnership should occur. Prior to
PTV's involvement, neither the startup nor the institution had considered
partnership.
|
|
|
|
|
Resource
Sector Business Planning
Purchase of Canadian Assets by Chinese Firms
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV was retained by a Chinese private-sector consortium to
represent it in finding bid partners for a major asset purchase in the
Canadian resource sector, and to value the assets.
|
|
|
|
|
Government-to-government Cooperation
Setup of Cooperation on Technology Transfers
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV was retained by the Canadian government to develop
strategic partnerships between various Asian and Canadian governments to
facilitate the transfer of technology and to provide strategic advice for the
benefit of businesses in the countries involved.
|
|
|
|
|
Resource Sector Channel Development
Exports of Paper Pulp to China
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV was retained by a Chinese private-sector trading company
to represent it to Canadian pulp mills. Long-term client relations were built
on the foundations that PTV has laid.
|
|
|
|
|
Resource Sector Channel Development
Exports of Low-Grade Dimension Lumber to China
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV is designing an end-to-end dimension lumber export
business based on low-grade waste lumber on Northern Vancouver Island. PTV
and its partners will take care of marketing, basic milling, and sourcing for
export to buyers in the Chinese construction industry.
|
|
|
|
|
Service-sector Venture Approval
Setup of a Western Venture in China
TOP ::
HOME
|
PTV enabled a big-five accounting firm to set up a large
wholly-owned foreign venture in the People's Republic of China. Chinese
government approvals for such service-sector projects are rare.
|
|
|
|
|
Import Channel Development
Imports of Tasmanian Leatherwood Honey to Canada
TOP ::
HOME
|
From 2001 to 2004, PTV
was the exclusive importer of Tasmanian Leatherwood honey to
Canada, and successfully developed the local market for this unique health food.
|
|
|
|
|
Institutional Partnership
Development
Developing a research partnership
with the Federal government
TOP ::
HOME
|
Represented a
Vancouver-based manufacturing company, a leader in its niche, in negotiations
with the Federal government for a research partnership.
|
|
|
|
|
Targetted Business Development
Implementation
Business-sector sales
TOP ::
HOME
|
Designed and implemented a
successful sales approach to a new niche for a Victoria-based business
services provider.
|
|
|
|
|
Small Business Valuation
Retail and business-to-business
manufacturing
TOP ::
HOME
|
Provided valuations on a number
of small businesses in preparation for purchase or in advance of pricing or
marketing strategic planning, including retail and manufacturing businesses.
|
|
|
|
|
Business Planning
Investor-readiness Preparations
TOP ::
HOME
|
Designed collateral, PowerPoint
presentations, and calculations aimed at soliciting investment for a logistics
and distribution business. The material was used to secure funding.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
