4:8 Four Eighths Ventures

A symbol of America's best traditions.

Four Eighths Ventures, Inc.’s principal activities include information technology development and commercialization, online learning, as well as e-commerce projects and joint ventures.

Four Eighths also serves as a business incubator in order to foster and launch fledgling business ventures providing software-as-a-service and technology-enabled services.

Four Eighths supports its subsidiary business activities with financing, management oversight and strategic planning.

Capital Management

We work with entrepreneurs, business owners, executives and boards of directors to manage financial resources, attract capital, and grow shareholder value. We advise boards and company leadership on corporate growth, cost reduction, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, optimal capital structure.

Enterprise Cost Management

We work with executives and management to reduce costs and improve cash flows without drastic budget cut-backs or sales or profitable capital assets. We develop enterprise-wide cost reductions through organizational restructuring, tax minimization planning, leveraging IT, and implementation of shared services strategies.

We work with the clients to determine which current products and service lines are profitable. Armed with this information, we tailor a plan that may include refocusing streamlined operations on core competencies, reorganizing inefficient operations to assure greater profits, terminating inefficient service or product lines, or selling whole divisions to free up capital for core operations.

Strategy & Leadership

Four Eighths Ventures works with entrepreneurs, business owners and executives to define, articulate and support their agenda and to successfully implement various strategic initiatives.

Our focus includes:
• Organization change and renewal
• Capital management
• Strategic communications
• Effective decision making

Information Technology

We integrate information technology services and management into our holistic business solutions. We structure IT to support and enable business growth in keeping with the organization’s global business strategy to drive improved efficiency and effectiveness.
We have the skills and experience to help businesses and organizations maximize the return on their IT investment. Our capabilities to support this agenda span four areas:
Mergers & Restructuring
 

We understand that mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations reorganizations, divestitures are key events in the life of a business. We help clients formulate strategies for corporate growth through strategic acquisitions or investment by private sources of capital. We work with clients at the beginning of a deal by developing a rationale for the deal and by screening potential candidates. During negotiations, we advise clients about the financial terms of the deal. Post-closing, we work with clients to integrate an acquired business into the client’s existing company.

Organization & Change

It is not enough to have a great business plan, product and business strategy. Organizations often underperform when the demands of daily operations keep management from implementing a company’s strategic vision. We design customized organizational models to efficiently and effectively deliver on shareholder expectations and customer needs.

We custom tailor an operating model to:
• Minimize overhead and administrative costs
• Empower leadership by competent managers and executives
• Define a chain of command and decision making processes, coupled with accountability
• Ensure proper communication within different departments of an organization, and by managers and executives

Emerging Technologies

Four eighths Ventures helps emerging technologies emerge. We have the real-world experience to deliver a precision tailored solution for leveraging your intellectual property (“IP”) or assisting you to develop and commercialize your IP. Four Eighths brings years of experience in leveraging IP, improving corporate image, and web marketing that will enhance the appeal of your business to prospective buyers, and ultimately resulting in a higher return on your investment. We devise and implement strategies to preserve and protect your IP assets and innovations, and all ancillary rights to control the use of the IP. Once your IP is developed and protected, Four Eighths works with you to commercialize the IP to create revenue for you.

Business Ventures

Four Eighths Ventures partner with entrepreneurs and startup executives as consultants and co-developers to build innovative, efficient and organized companies.
 

In addition, Four Eighths Ventures develops and operates its own private, in-house business ventures. Four Eighths Ventures support our own in-house business ventures with financing, management oversight and strategic planning.
 

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