Business Model: Inversors' view

FSM CORP - Inversor's View The next Libre Software Boom: CAD  Reasons of our elect:  Specificied: architecture studies, civil  engineering, ... design in general Quick growth: not aceptable solutions yet +  GnuLinux growth Need of a company involved into the  development: OpenOffice.org, Eclipse, ... Good for community and marketeable 

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Business plan:  Phase 1: Market Conquer  Use the most quality present project to begin (ie  SagCAD) Make stable and usable the most used  functionalities Marketing: presence in CAD and Libre Software  events Entering in the core of most popular GnuLinux  distributions (Debian (and derivates), etc)

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Business plan:  Phase 2: Consolidate and growth  Support  New functionalities, maintenance  Loss leader  Autocad functionality, 3D side  Brand License  Training 

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Business plan:  Phase 3: Sell in top  Company viewed as the leader in Libre Software  CAD Business Plan profitable  Standar de facto  Involved with clients 

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Economic viability  2.5 Millions €  Inversion Sharing  60% Development => 1.5 Million €  20% Marketing => 0.5 Million €  20% Management => 0.5 Million €  25 € IT employee/hour (externalizated) =>  60.000 hours of development => 1500 weeks => 17 employees during 2 years

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Product and business plan:  CAD software, an the b.p. related yet  Business Model  Support Seller, Loss Leader, Brand Licensing  Development Process  SagCAD and its community => Ximian Model  License  Dual: GPL v3 for general purposes, and privative  for the Loss Leader Modules

FSM CORP - Inversor's View Who make us rich?  Autodesk: remove competitors and improve  their product into Gnu/Linux environment. Another CAD companies: the easiest way to  be introduced into CAD market. Red Hat and Canonical: to guarantee the  quality and support of the most used CAD tool. Public Administrations and University: make  donations to get interesting things to them.

FSM CORP - Inversor's View And if all goes bad...  Important contributions to Libre Software  Community A group of people earn money working for  Libre Software Projects Open the way to finally build a solid and  standard CAD tool ... and we can work in another quick growth  business yet: obituary services.

Business Model: Inversors' view

by Andrés Maneiro on Nov 12, 2007

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