Prepare a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint presentation with speaker notes requesting initial funding of $500,000 to start and run a start-up company. The proposed start-up company could is a luxury Pet Hotel and your target location should be a city you are very familiar with.

Create the presentation in the following format, with at least one slide to cover each of the following areas:

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Executive Summary
• Information about the Industry
• Marketing Plan
• Competitor Analysis of 3 real competitors in your chosen market area. One slide per competitor.
• 3 Year Income Statement (Profit & Loss) Projections
• Include your 4 assumptions for why and how you will achieve your sales growth and identify 5 significant expenses and 3 investments you expect to incur to achieve your revenue goals.
• 3 Year Proposed Funding Schedule (Sources and uses of the funds received.)
• Break-Even Analysis - show calculations step by step
• Academic and Business References

Review the following scenarios and assumption, and explain how it impacts your decision to expand - allocate one slide for each bullet point ( 5) :

• After Year 3, the investors are interested in your company expanding to Finland internationally to possibly outsource labor or to reduce manufacturing costs. What 5 factors would you need to consider in making this decision ( quantify) ?
• What is the corporate tax rate in Finland, and how will that affect your decision to expand globally? (Use OECD Database or another resource to determine the corporate tax rate).
• The investors want to see a decision tree detailing the decisions you would make if you received $300K now and $200K at the end of three years instead of $500K up front.
• The investors would like your team to provide advantages and disadvantages of using debt financing versus selling company stock to raise capital for growth.
• Briefly explain the venture capital process. Does it make sense for your company to raise funds through venture capital?