FOR STARTUPS & INVENTORS
Statistics show that roughly 75% of all startups fail!

MACH 9 provides the essential expertise to bootstrapped serial entrepreneurs and venture-backed startups to improve your odd’s of being part of the 25% that succeed. Before you draw up your term sheet, contact us for a free, confidential consultation.

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The Path to Startup Success

GROWTH

Idea / Concept Development

  • Exploring feasibility of building ideas into new concepts and business models
  • Develop proof of concept prototypes
  • Business model development

Product & Service Development

  • Down-select concepts into products (roadmap)
  • Develop & validate the product
  • Pilot manufacturing development
  • Develop marketing & sales plan for launch
  • Market testing

Product Launch

  • Launch the product
  • Selectively scale manufacturing to meet demand
  • Build traction in the market until revenue pours in
  • Hire employees
  • Optimize product quality & performance

Market Validation

  • Launch the product
  • Selectively scale manufacturing to meet demand
  • Build traction in the market until revenue pours in
  • Hire employees
  • Optimize product quality & performance

Scaling

  • Scale manufacturing & production up
  • Increase market share
  • Beat out or out live the competition
  • Break even or start generating profits
  • Continue to build the organizational size & capability

Establishing

  • Continue scaling up manufacturing & production
  • Increase market share
  • Undertake M&A activity
  • Develop new products & services
  • Optimize the portfolio for sustainable growth
  • Put company on an IPO track
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BOOTSTRAPPING

  • Self Funding
  • Family & Friends
  • Angel Investors

ANGEL

  • Angel Investors
  • Grants
  • Incubators

SEED

  • Angel Investors
  • Venture Capital (Seed)
  • Incubators & Accelerators

SERIES A

  • Angel Investors
  • Venture Capital
  • Venture Funds

SERIES B

  • Investor Networks & Funds
  • Venture Capital
  • Venture Funds
  • Private Equity

SERIES C ONWARDS

  • Investor Networks & Funds
  • Venture Capital & Funds
  • Private Equity
  • IPO – Established Business

THIS IS WHAT WE DO FOR YOU:

MACH 9 Solutions can provide any or all of the following services for your business depending on what your needs are and where you are in your journey…

IDEA STAGE STARTUP STAGE STARTUP STAGE LATER GROWTH STAGE

Road Show and Investor Meeting Preparation

  • Overall market and opportunity assessment
  • Clearly identify the needs, wants, or problems to be solved and ensure consumers are willing and able to adopt and pay for a solution vs. competition
  • Concept and prototype development
  • Technical feasibility, scalability and COGS assessment
  • Portfolio strategy development to ensure sustained growth and improved valuation
  • Needed organizational and partnership capabilities to bring your opportunity to scale
  • Business plan & monetization modeling

Product Design and Development Services

  • Concept Generation
  • Industrial Design
  • Rapid Prototyping (3D printing and CNC machining)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Application Software Development
  • Manufacturing Process, Tooling and Assembly Equipment Development

Custom Test and Assembly Equipment Design & Fabrication

  • Product verification
  • Reliability testing
  • Manufacturing Assembly
  • Inspection
  • Processing
  • Testing and Sorting
  • Quality control
  • Datalogging

Prototype / Small Run Production CNC Machining & Fabrication

  • 4 Axis CNC Milling
  • Tool room CNC Turning
  • 3D Printing
  • Precision CNC Plasma Cutting
  • Mig and Tig Welding
  • Metal Fabrication
  • Powder Coating

Custom Test and Assembly Equipment Design and Fabrication

  • Product Verification
  • Reliability Testing
  • Proof of Process
  • Manufacturing Assembly
  • Part / Assembly Inspection
  • Processing
  • Testing and Sorting
  • Quality control
  • Datalogging

Licensing and Acquisition Due Diligence

  • Technical feasibility, scalability and COGS appraisal
  • Willingness, ability to pay and adopt vs. competition
  • Business plan & monetization modeling
  • Portfolio strategy development to ensure sustained growth or improved valuation
  • Organizational capability and bench strength assessment

Product Design and Development Services

  • Concept Generation
  • Industrial Design
  • Rapid Prototyping (3D printing and CNC machining)
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Application Software Development
  • Manufacturing Process, Tooling and Assembly Equipment Development

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