After you have completed the submission, TVA will deliver written feedback within 30 days.  This 10-12 page analysis details the strengths and weakness of your company and provides recommendations for improving your business concept.  The SCORE report provides you with:

1. Feedback on how investors will think about your deal.

2. Detailed comments on what steps are needed for your company to be "fundable".

3. One or more TVA qualified consultants or resources that can help fix identified problems. 

4. TVA's expert resources will bring you back to us after your have resolved those concerns and allow you to move forward in the TVA process.

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Once you have had the opportunity to digest the report, TVA will review it with you. This telephone or in-person session will be used to get a better idea of the overall business concept, address issues raised in the Score Report, as well as identify next action steps.

Each report contains two major scoring elements and you will receive the following charts that graphically demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of your value proposition.

1)       An overall SCORE identifying the current “fundability” of your company.  This is a determined by totaling the weighted ratings for each critical aspect of the company with heaviest emphasis on management.  These weightings change depending on the development stage of the company and its dependence on intellectual property.

2)       Radar graphs comparing these key aspects for your company on twelve key indicators to a standard and to your peer companies.  A sample of each is shown below for an early stage company.  This company scored in the 65^th percentile (707 points out of a possible 1,200) and is not yet ready to be introduced to funding sources.  It is TVA’s experience that companies scoring in excess of the 70^th percentile would be of interest to professional investors.  The higher the score, the more investors that will be interested and the better the terms available to the company.

The top 20% of applicants, those considered viable for funding, are invited to make a live presentation either in person or via video conference to and receive feedback from an audience which includes the TVA Partners, Angels, Venture Capitalists, consultants, investment bankers and business experts.  Your presentation may be simulcast to our partners and affiliates in other locations which may include major corporations and universities.

The program is simple.  During the first 10 minutes of your Deal Review presentation you will address 4 basic questions about your company.  During the remaining 20 minutes, our audience will politely ask questions about your company, focusing on these issues.  The four questions are.

• What is it that you do?
• How do you do it and how are you unique?
• Who believes in you?
• How do you make money?

The benefit to you for presenting in this fashion is that it gives your company instant exposure to a wide audience of potential investors, partners, mentors, and consultants - all of who may be able to help your company.  TVA’s experience with 100’s of companies is that the many minds at the Deal Review meeting help us refine our evaluation of your company and accelerate the funding process.

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