I am always motivated...
You would be hard pressed to find someone more so...
I hear(see) a lot of talk on here... mine included...
BUT... Back in reality (no offense)...
Limitations are always ever present in any potential "venture"...
and I am sure all of us here know that limitations can be overcome if desired enough...
Anyway...
What I am starting to hear... and perhaps I am over stepping by assuming...
but I am starting to think i am getting a "clearer picture" of "the answer" or response... that you may be searching to see here...
Exactly what "answer" is needed here treasurediver ?
Are you waiting to hear the word "investor" in this business plan ?
Correct me if I am wrong... ? <
Good questions. I will try to answer.
We are talking about a business here.
How do you build a business?
You start with a plan.
So, let's say the plan is “we want to build a profitable enterprise that makes it's profits from the shipwrecks.”
Right away we see a few key words: enterprise, profitable, shipwrecks, profits.
Why do we mention profits twice? Because it is the most important part.
Then we look at the challenges:
How do we make a profit?
To know about profits, we need to know about the cost.
The cost is in short:
Logistics
Equipment
People
Capital (yes, capital has a cost)
Then we look at how we are going to cover this cost.
Do we plan to sell something? Yes, so we need to do market research to find out how the market is for our products.
Let's say we find that there is a high demand in the market for our products, so we can make a good guess of the value of our products.
So we subtract the cost from the revenue and we get a bottom line.
Does the bottom line look good? If yes, we continue. If no we go back to the beginning.
Now we look at how we are going to actually implement the plan.
How are we going to raise the capital? By presenting a solid business plan to an investor.
As we are looking at several million in capital, we know that investors on that level are not stupid. They are going to ask a lot of questions and if we do not have the right answer, they rekon that we do not know what we are doing and therefore the risks are too high. No investment.
So? what are the questions going to be?
Management, who is going to manage, details.
Does the working team cover all the necessary expertise?
Product, can we produce it?
Marketing, are the numbers that we present real?
What are the other risks? Weather, seasonality, hurricanes, political unrest, wars, fluctuations of the economy, etc.etc.
If we have done our homework, we have solid proof for all our answers. The investor rekons it is a good investment and puts up the money.
This, in brief is how you start a business.
If you want to know more about business plan, ask miss Google, just click on the link <
https://www.google.ch/search?source...usiness plan&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.22530j0j8
So what am I looking for on this forum? Obviously not an investor, wrong place for that.
What we have on the forum, are mostly people who have an interest or passion in diving and shipwrecks. There are very few people who have actually ever seen an old undisturbed shipwreck as it looks on the ocean floor. There are very few who know how to recognize an old shipwreck on the sidescan or magnetometer readout.
How many know about preservation of the artifacts that have been exposed to several hundred years of sea water?
How many are capable of recognizing an encrusted silver coin or silver bar when it bites them in the hand? Or on the remote camera? How many know how to differentiate a silver bar from a zinc anode?
There are many different talents needed for a successful shipwreck business.
I am looking for these talents.
