Beta-Rubicon, Inc - Assessing Technology

The Company

An Innovative Organization and Enterprise

Beta-Rubicon is an aggressive user of advanced communications, information, and management-facilitating technologies. These technologies, coupled with an open communication policy and egalitarian work practices, promote an unusual degree of efficiency that is to the ultimate benefit of our clients.
Responding to the Needs of Our Clients
Beta-Rubicon, Inc. serves businesses, investors, and government agencies that require comprehensive, in-depth assessments of the many factors involved in investing in and utilizing technology. Such information is essential for sound decision making in investment, mergers/acquisitions, IPO's, internal allocation of resources for R&D, or acquiring or upgrading technology-based infrastructure.
Beta-Rubicon, Inc. serves businesses, investors, and government agencies that require comprehensive, in-depth assessments of the many factors involved in investing in and utilizing technology. Such information is essential for sound decision making in investment, mergers/acquisitions, IPO's, internal allocation of resources for R&D, or acquiring or upgrading technology-based infrastructure.

Independent technology assessment should be used when one or more of the following occur:
Where there is a need for cost-effective, systematic analysis of complex technology issues
Where complexity of a technology being considered dictates a team-oriented approach to ensure a broad perspective and in-depth analysis provided by discipline specialists
Where a fast response is required and can only be assured through the dedicated efforts of specialists who are familiar with technology assessment and technology due diligence work
Where potential conflicts-of-interests must be avoided and where non-competition, objectivity, and partiality must be assured
Where it is necessary that confidentiality be secured by legally binding agreement and that the assessment product is exclusively the property of the Client
Where obscure or abstract technologically sophisticated issues must be translated into a form meaningful to investment and management decision makers.
Typical projects requiring technology assessment might represent investment levels from $250,000 to hundreds of millions, and some smaller projects will be necessary in circumstances where a somewhat less detailed technology assessment is adequate.

Companies or agencies with in-house technical capabilities may also require Beta-Rubicon's independent services to enable them to must avoid the impacts of hidden agendas or vested interests within their own organization. In addition, significant information that is typically difficult to assess internally in these situations may be more readily available in the open format provided by an independent Beta-Rubicon agent who obviously has no vested interests to promote.
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Therefore, Beta-Rubicon's client community includes:
Angel and venture capital investors, private client banking, business development consortiums, and research foundations are an obvious and significant client group. Many of these potential investors tend to be risk-adverse, and Beta-Rubicon can clearly define risks and may reduce the reluctance of these investors to support technology investment.
Private-sector enterprises investing internally in technology in the target range of $250,000 to $25 million are important clients. Beta-Rubicon can free the decision makers in these enterprises from dependence on sales and marketing claims.
Private-sector enterprises seeking substantial investment or a credible independent evaluation to support an IPO are a part of Beta-Rubicon's client community.
Agencies in our client community range from local school districts to local, state, and federal agencies. For example, local school districts are investing heavily in computer resources, including computer-aided instruction and information technology and typically have limited internal resources to cope with the complexity of these technologies. In contrast, many governmental agencies have internal resources but require the independent and unbiased service that Beta-Rubicon provides.