Why Orlando Clients Partner with BHVC

• Orlando Investment Grade Business Plans – 95% of our completed Orlando business plans are in front of our private equity investment syndicate within 3 months.
• Get funded – 65% of our plans obtained capital or were purchased. Our differentiation: VC contacts, track record and expertise. Less than 1% of all other business plans ever get funded.
• Value – We allow you to continue to drive your Orlando business forward. For most Orlando executives, raising capital is a full-time job. With Blue Horizon, clients focus on profits and we focus on the investors.
• Get what you pay for – Our business plans are not inexpensive. 30% of our clients partner with us after a less expensive consultant did not work out. Your time is too valuable!
• Venture Experts – Our venture consultants and partners are experienced entrepreneurs who have MBAs or PhDs from schools like UCLA, Harvard, Stanford, Thunderbird, MIT, CalTech, Chicago, and Wharton. We also have access to subject matter experts in market research, FDA/regulatory issues, financial modeling and in every industry.
• Efficient – The quality of our strategic advice is on par with a leading strategy consulting firm like BCG or Bain with savings of up to 50% due to a lower outsourced cost structure.
• Results – Our syndicate ensures that your business plans are reviewed by successful venture capital investors . From Angels to institutional private equity, we have helped most clients raise between $100,000 – $25,000,000.

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BankUnited plans three branches, including Orlando
BankUnited filed plans for three additional locations – including one in Miami and its first branches in Orlando. The Miami Lakes-based bank (NYSE: BKU) has had its sights set on the Central Florida city of nearly 186,000 people since September, when it opened an office there. With the branches, BankUnited could start conducting all types of banking transactions there. BankUnited’s May 19 application to the Office of Thrift Supervision said it planned to open branches at 44 E. Central…

Florida Hospital: No patient disruption after shooting
Florida Hospital Chief Administrator David Banks said May 27 that while the hospital is mourning after a transplant surgeon was shot and killed May 26, no patient disruptions will happen as a result. Dr. Dmitriy A. Nikitin, a multi-organ transplant surgeon, was shot and killed in the evening May 26. Police say 53-year-old Nelson Flecha, a patient, targeted Nikitin in a parking garage on the main campus and then killed himself. In a brief press conference May 27, Banks said the hospital is focusing on taking care of Nikitin’s family, its staff and patients: “Clinical care has to go on even in dramatic situations like…

PayPal sues Google
We told you this morning that Google has launched its new Wallet app, which lets people make payments with their Android phones. Now PayPal is suing Google, claiming former PayPal employees took proprietary information with them to Google, reports CNN Money. The lawsuit names two employees who took the stage at the Google Wallet debut. Google stock rose 0.5 percent today, closing at $520.90, while PayPal parent eBay saw its stock rise only 0.07 percent, to $30.68. By comparison, the S&P 500 gained…

BofA unit to pay $20M settlement
A division of Bank of America Corp. will pay $20 million to settle a lawsuit that accused it of wrongfully foreclosing on 160 service members by not checking on their military status. The U.S. Department of Justice filed the suit against BAC Home Loans Servicing, formerly known as Countrywide Home Loans Servicing. The complaint alleged that Countrywide did not consistently check the military status of borrowers on whom it foreclosed through at least May 31, 2009. The suit was filed in the Central District of California, where Countrywide was…

St. Johns Water Management District faces 26% funding cut
The St. Johns River Water Management District will be cutting its annual property tax collection by $85.3 million for the 2011-2012 fiscal year in accordance to a law signed by Gov. Rick Scott May 26. SB 2142, which requires the Legislature to annually review the preliminary budget and the authorized millage rate for each water management district, also sets the district’s ad valorem revenue 26 percent lower than the current fiscal year’s amount. The district is working on a tentative budget and millage rate to present to its governing board by July 14, according to Teresa Monson, a spokeswoman for the…