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Links and Partners

Do you wonder when you link to a site why it is relevant? Sometimes I do. My goal with the links below is much like "Intel Inside", create a "Blueprint Inside" program. For readers, entrepreneur, investors and corporations, the Blueprint sets off a different language -- a language of exponential growth. In addition, when you reach out to someone, they don't always call you back. My goals with this section are two fold: to create a community of exponential business builders and to create a value set based on sharing and community.

To join this community journey, I would like for you to do 3 things:

1. Download the Blueprint overview and book cover by clicking here.
2. Write a page on your web site as to what the Blueprint means to you and/or how you are applying it.
3. Send the link for this page to david@blueprinttoabillion.com along with a short paragraph to accompany the link.

Venture Partners

OI Ventures
OI Ventures helps early stage technology oriented products achieve industry adoption, customer demand, revenue growth, and inventors returns. OI Ventures works with startups, corporate R&D groups, industry groups, venture funds and federal/state/local government to speed change in a world of Disruptive Innovation. Carter Williams, Managing Partner, was a director with Boeing Ventures and founder of the Chairman’s Innovation Initiative, where he led The Boeing Company's efforts to develop an internal incubator focused on new venture growth opportunities. Link to Blueprint perspective

Signal Lake Ventures
Signal Lake's mission is to generate significant capital growth through early stage investments in the broadband telecom and networking infrastructure being built for the global economy over the next several decades. Bart Stuck is the Managing Director of this firm. David Thomson serves as an advisor. Bart is a leader in applying the 7 Essentials to his portfolio of companies. Please see the Signal Lake Perspective for how this team measure and communicates progress.

Celtic House Venture Partners
Celtic House Venture Partners (Celtic House), a recognized leader in Canada's venture capital industry, specializes in early stage investments in high technology companies originating in North America and the United Kingdom. Andrew Waitman, Managing Director, has adopted the Blueprint Essentials into this firms strategy thinking. You will often find Andrew sharing the Blueprint at conferences or discussing the book with his CEOs. Please read November's letter.

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