Click Play to hear about PreFlight PowerTips™   About PreFlight PowerTips™ Welcome to PreFlight PowerTips™, a collection of audio tips to help entrepreneurs with personal insights from leading new venture experts from around North America. You'll hear examples and learn practical techniques from investors, corporate partners, lawyers, successful entrepreneurs, and others. PreFlight PowerTips™ tackle challenging questions that entrepreneurs face every day. It often helps just to hear what other start-up companies have done to solve a problem. Use PreFlight PowerTips™ as an "Instant Coach" to get ready to meet with a potential corporate partner or investor; to plan your funding or sales strategy; and to know what questions to ask your attorney that can save you time and money. Or you can browse through the tips to educate yourself and others in your company about starting and growing your new venture. You are Not Alone Being an entrepreneur is both difficult and often lonely. But you are not alone. PreFlight PowerTips™ packages the experience of new venture experts to save you time and is delivered with a personal touch through the power of audio. The goal of PreFlight PowerTips™ is to help entrepreneurs by providing practical information and coaching that guides you, challenges you, and encourages you as you pursue your dream. Available Versions of PreFlight PowerTips™ PreFlight PowerTips™ is available on the Internet with streaming audio, expert information, database searching, tip updates, and transcripts. In addition, you can get PreFlight PowerTips™ as an audio CD to take with you wherever you go. Host of PreFlight PowerTips™ The creator and host of PreFlight PowerTips™ is Rick King, the founder and president of PreFlight Ventures. Rick has 23 years of experience in new ventures and coaching entrepreneurs, and is an international speaker and workshop leader. He has started successful companies, worked with over 100 technology start-ups, and negotiated over 50 deals. Rick also worked at Hewlett Packard and Procter & Gamble, and has a Harvard MBA and a degree in chemical engineering. He has authored two guidebooks: "Making Money with Your Technology" and "The Art of Telling Your Story", and his work has appeared in major publications. To learn more about PreFlight PowerTips™, visit us at http://www.preflightventures.com or call 919-806-1166. PreFlight Ventures PreFlight PowerTips™ are created and produced by PreFlight Ventures. Based in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. PreFlight Ventures helps entrepreneurs and start-ups through corporate partnering, licensing, and acquisitions. In addition, we coach entrepreneurs and lead national workshops on "The Art of Telling Your Story", "Doing Smart Deals" and commercialization. Disclaimer The commentary and discussion provided in PreFlight PowerTips™ is presented as general information. The tips are not legal, accounting, or other professional advice. Information is edited to allowable space and does not represent the opinion, or position, of any company, firm, or employer. Copyright PreFlight PowerTips™ are the exclusive copyrighted property of PreFlight Ventures, Inc. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. Copyright 2005© PreFlight Ventures, Inc.