Zero Emission Vehicles for Los Angeles: From theory to fact.

Zero-Emission Vehicles brought to you by ELV-South Park Development Group

There has been lots of rhetoric about bringing true sustainable-vehicles to Los Angeles that are affordable, can be financed,  and are fleet-ready.

Our Mayor has talked about L.A becoming the Greenest city in the U.S.

ELV-The South Park Development Group is  pleased to announce that the move toward full sustainability( for example the city, Los Angeles companies and organizations can purchase or lease all-electric, zero-emission fleets from ELV-South Park Dev Group: A local, South Park Los Angeles, HQ Sustainability company.

The shark now has teeth: Doug Schwartz, Jeffrey Chung, and Martin Cavanaugh Porter have burned their bridges, put their resources, energy, and time to begin a zero-emission freindly pilot-program in South Park L.A (a zone in Downtown Los Angeles) backed by a full fledged showroom, repair center, and customized graphic (wrap) department.

All Los Angeles, all it’s power-brokers, and stake-holders who have deluged us with thousands of words talking about  zero-emission vehicles now have an option: to use them, lease them, and lease/purchase fleets of them, turning the tide in Los Angeles-makin our city greener. better, and more livable.  For more information please call 213-261-1949 or email: JChun@FLVLLC.COM

short-sales & foreclosures in downtown los angeles: the right investment strategy

 Buy now: The marginal savings you think you will gain by waiting for a further dip in property values that may accrue to you will be offset by rising interest rates and other variables.

The tide will turn-our President is pump-priming the economy and his policy ‘hand’ is gaining finesse. We will move away from this recession within three-five years. We won’t see exponential growth like we did before because the commodities markets will remain unstable for decades to come as China and Korea gain colonial footholds in Africa (to fuel their endless need for non-renewable resources, advancing a strategy of economic warfare three hundred years in the making-which they are winning) and the next great oil grab gains momentum.

From recession, we will move toward decades of starts and stops-until sustainability entrepreneurs are able to develop truly added value products and services with enough built in efficiencies and sell these products and services within a reasonable pricing structure (we are a long ways from that paradigm).

Today, The South Park Development Group-Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC met with a dynamic, interesting, and bright lady (Lila Feingold…much more about her in the coming days and weeks) who has a deep and comprehensive understanding of real estate and human behaviour. She put on the table a definitive scenario that leads me, as CEO of The South Park Development Group and FLV LLC to three conclusions:

1. The South Park Development Group will accelerate the development of our network with certain developers, brokers, and investors and develop a comprehensive ‘buy-in’ plan regarding taking equity interest in not just projects we are developing in South Park Los Angeles, but also South Park Los Angeles properties themselves through our league of like minded business allies.

2. Lila Feingold has her pulse on future trends and she should be viewed by any serious real-estate investor or home-buyer as powerful point-person with one’s best interests in mind (she’s a dynamo).

3. Peter Drucker was fundamentally correct when he proffered these thoughts twenty five years ago: Almost everyone is wrongheaded in their approach to business and business development-the old axiom “that if you build it, they will come…” is, in the world of business as valuable as toilet water.

If you plan it, if you brand it, if you systematize it, personalize it,market it, day in, day out, beta test your products and services with rigor, budget for it, test all your assumptions and be open to being wrong about everything and then, with rapidity, adapt and change, and have that certain indefinable mix of passion and intensity, and brilliance, then, maybe, just maybe they will come.

-Martin Cavanaugh Porter III

out of the car, onto the bikes: the sustainable wave

the next wave-sustainablity

there are more and more cars in the u.s. than ever. a lot of people are driving their cars to do something as simple as going to the grocery store or returning a dvd. but how awesome would it be to be able to bike to those places or use your zero emissions electric bike to go to work? not only would you be doing the environment a great big favor, but you also would be saving yourself a lot of money and getting the exercise that everyone needs.

here in downtown l.a., it’s pretty easy to find parking, but majority of the time you have to pay. but if you started biking, you wouldn’t have to worry about all that. as more people start to take up biking, i can visualize bike racks on every street and bike shops opening up all around the southpark neighborhood just because of this up and coming trend.

how could we encourage more people to take up biking (besides the environmental and money factor)? i think customizable bikes will grab peoples attention. just think about walking into a bike shop, telling them exactly what you want, and then having them design it for you. everyone likes it when you can customize your own personal items… because it’s unique.

so peddle to the max.

more than just design.

i recently joined Forbes Legacy Ventures as a graphic designer. and every day i come to work, i realize how much there is to learn. it’s more than just design. it’s also business. and i now know how much business and design go hand in hand. good graphics can make good business and vice versa.

i was given this amazing opportunity to work on a variety of projects, but not only that, i also have the opportunity to work directly with the c.e.o. and because of this, i am able to learn so much more than just sitting behind a cubicle and being stuck in the farthest corner of the room. at least, that is the stereotype.

currently, i am working on Forbes Legacy Venture’s website. trying to keep it simple. clean. and to the point. letting people know what we do as a business and what we are capable of doing with graphics. because again, it’s more than just design.

a game changing c.f.o-the importance of having a great mentor in your organization

c.f.o as game-changer

as c.e.o i deliberate, i engage in strategic thinking, and I develop the best strategy that should be implemented on behalf of my team, my clients, my family, and my community. most often, strategically, we are right on the money, backed by powerful tactical flanking executed by the team.

 i don’t always know how to handle everyone-i don’t always get interpersonal relationships right: i am burdened by the entirety of the enterprise-which is no excuse-i refuse excuses from others and will not accept one from myself.

but, i can become so engaged in the day’s affairs and so wrapped up in my own ego, that i can’t see the forest from the trees-and the trees are my team. trees need water and the chance to grow.

i became insensibly unable to deal with a member of the team because i could not, through my limited prism of life and business experience comprehend the true nature of that person’s character or abilities-and i gave up. my c.f.o did not. she saw what i did not: a biz developer, a hustler, a beehive worker-a passionate, unique individual whose life experiences, bound together into a quilt of embedded memory make her a valuable player to my clients, my team, and to me.

 my c.f.0, eve, worked with her and what i can see-early days-is an early spring of personal growth and business mojo. always listen in business, always look for the tipping point, which is to be found at the edges, not at the centre, at those moments when you should listen, and are not. effective=active=acting intelligently. that’s what i am beginning to see  in this person that the c.f .o is mentoring, and i am proud and grateful.

we may have a business development powerhouse on our hands in this young acolyte.

beyond commoditization of customers: from customers to members, from members to members of your tribe.

green-organic boot-strap v.c funding in south park l.a: hope RIZE

Friday, May 15, 2009

 

the hopeRIZE fund:finding and boot strap funding GREEN-ORGANIC entreprenenuers

today, brett and I will be filing the securities and exchange paperwork for the hopeRIZE fund: moving toward solution-first round financing for young, dynamic, highly innovative future GREEN ORGANIC entrepreneurs: core component attribute: the startup(s) must be HQ downtown southpark l.a. within the four block LUNA-EVO-EVO SOUTH-FLOWER STREE LOFT schema.

we look forward to working with South Park stake holders to advance this goal.

-martin cavanaugh porter III and brett h tomich.

questions? you can email: info@southparkbusinessincubator.biz 

50-for-500 club

we cannot remain locked in a disparate darkness of financial road blocks to innovation. 

the best time to innovate, invest, and grow is through a recession by supporting groundbreaking start up-entrepreneurs who often lack the ‘get in the door’ credentials to accelerate their product to market and reach the payback period to investors. 

the los angeles business war room round table must assist start-ups and on-going businesses receive a degree of credit from suppliers, obtain second rounds of financing, and have access to state-of-the art technology to leverage their innovation and bring their product or service to market. 

let us look at the present value, beta, efficiency frontier modelling through the lens: degree to which we can support an innovator succeed.

credit scores: one part of a whole- many individuals credit scores have taken a hit these last years and/or young men and women don’t have enough credit history to have an adequate score.

Let us move beyond the obvious in our collective thinking ”We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Einstein.

 lets also talk about: innovation scores (can product or service be brought to market or improved and be re-branded in short order with a reasonable expectation of success) and credibility scores (what is the individual’s relationship with his freinds and family like-this is a prime new way of balancing a potentially low credit score). full due-diligence adding criteria that allows for a more balanced view of the potential investment. 

 

brett and I propose the  50 for 500 club to begin to provide direct, technical,branding, ongoing strategic advice and limited financial ‘boot strap’ assistance to one potential innovative, entrepreneurial  graduate from the USC Marshall School of Business through the South Park Business Incubator (a private business incubator, a business  unit of the South Park Development Group). much more to come about the 50 for 500 club in the days ahead.

 south park biz incubator (also called la biz incubator) would provide legal, technical, office, branding and marketing assistance (unlimited email marketing campaign blasts, free, best of breed website-on line ecommerce presence, viral-SEO marketing, business planning, and assistance in 2nd and third round financing) for the life of the start-up company, taking a 10% interest.

members of the 50 for 500 club in return for each member putting up a $500.00 stake in the venture, collectively own 10% interest.

it’s a new model: double down on the angel  investor model and drive innovation and the hopes of start-up businessmen and women.

the 50 for 500 club will be on the agenda  at the first war room round table.

questions? ideas? email: btomich@southparkbusinessincubator.biz or mcporter@southparkbusinessincubator.biz

entreprenuer magazine blog posting on forbes legacy ventures llc-l.a biz incubator inc

flvllc.com

entrepreneur magazine’s blog has said of forbes legacy ventures llc’s model is that it is a hybrid v.c, branding, ecommerce organization both % -equity based and or fee based that is the first organization that seems to be flexible enough to provide concrete, universal solutions to small-medium businesses. they have integrated business consulting with v.c allowing small business access to technologically complex solutions and focused growth strategies at a very reasonable rate….”

forbes legacy ventures llc is so pleased to announce that they are being closely watched by business week , whole foods blog, and the real estate industry report: they are humbled-they feel it is thier duty to  live up to the accolades…..forbes legacy ventures llc- the south park development group-l.a biz incubator will endeavor every day, in every way to provide maximum value to its clients

e-raod cycle, update 2

E-ROAD Update 2

the forbes legacy ventures team will be test driving the E-Road this sunday at, 2pm.

almost zero carbon emissions

seems perfect for downtown….we will keep you posted…