We are funding an additional EURO 500 Million into
Zfere Holdings Inc. (www.zfere.com) personally; we think
they are going to be “bigger than Ben Hur! “
(As we say here in Australia)
Zfere seeks to redefine the term “social commerce” and has
developed some serious technology to do so. Through their
“walled garden” community that integrates 16 social media
networks with Zfere’s remarkable tools to dramatically and
exponentially expand a users interaction capabilities.
Zfere executes where the existing companies in the ecommerce
and social media industries continue to fail. In short, we
feel Zfere actually lives up to the promises we’ve all heard
about instead of just adding to the “hype”.
While everyone else in the industry is talking about
“building brand” and “contact opportunities”, Zfere actually
addresses the most crucial part of a transaction; facilitation,
or as Steve Vanderbol, Zfere’s CEO said to me “you know you can
pitch all day but if you can’t close then you’re not in business
or at least for very long. We realize this and spent a
considerable amount of time building tools and applications
that help people find what they want and assist businesses
close the sale.”
Proof positive about how confident they are about their processes
is seen in their revenue models. Using Zfere’s system, and technologies
advertising is free as are most of their “member” products;
Zfere just takes a small commission on each sale.
What I liked about their business model was its simplicity:
Contact, Inform, Stimulate and Facilitate. How they do it is a
marvel of technology and intuition. With focus on the establishment
of community and bringing virtual friendships into the real world we
live in, they developed a wide array of tools, packaged elegantly
into software systems designed from a blank sheet to work in the
mobile environment.
Interestingly Zfere’s management team had this insight almost a decade
ago and started working on their technologies. When only just recently
the players in the consumer products and Internet industries started to
admit this. So much so, even one of the fathers of the PC said that
“the PC is dead and tablets are the future”.
Zfere’s management intends to use our investment platform to prove
the power of social interaction and its community concepts. The
company plans a limited IPO in Frankfurt, as well as capital provided
by EPF and debt providers Zfere intends to be the first company to see
its growth from main street as much as Wall Street.
The company is much more than a penny stock and remarkably the management
team is conservative often looking at their true value based upon hard
asset valuations instead of speculation. Their approach to the company’s
future is realistic and refreshing. The management team is focused on
long term success and their track record shows it.
Our agreement with the company is to provide growth capital focused on
acquisitions activity. With this in mind, Zfere has designated several
targets to us that they expect to acquire quickly over the next few months
and has disclosed other areas where they require assistance.
They seek strategic relationships and opportunities in the following areas:
1. Commercial Banking contacts for accounts / money management / credit facilities
in USA, EU, Japan and Caribbean
2. Communications network (wire and wireless) including data centers in
EU/Africa/Russia/South America and Australia
3. Consumer banking contacts for payment system/ money management to meet local
regulatory issues in each operational jurisdiction (globally)
4. Wireless device manufacturers (consumer products)
5. Wireless transmission equipment manufacturers (network)
6. Broadcast media production companies
7. Media companies (news, music, mass media)
8. News Agencies (globally)
Please contact us via email donovan@epfundspc.com if you know a good candidate.
Also please be advised, Zfere is not looking for investment opportunities outside
of these areas at this time.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/zfere-holdings-announces-equity-funding-and-roll-out-of-mobile-products-2011-09-12
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zfere-secures--100-million-in-equity-funding-125736063.html
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