Firebird International
20.01.2013 09:09
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NEW YORK, 2013-01-20 09:09 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Firebird International, co-founded by Russia and regional expert Matthew
Goldstein, announced today the opening of boutique business consulting service
operations in Boston and New York specialized in providing direct and third
party investment procurement, direct content and technology sales, and
fast-track patenting and registration in addition to a full suite of market
evaluation and entry services to media and tech businesses from start-ups to
conglomerates seeking to do business in Russia and the CIS in the most
efficient, streamlined, and profitable manner, under the guidance of its team
of energetic, ambitious, and extremely experienced consultants.
Firebird will work with a wealth of US and foreign of investors seeking to gain
access to the brightest and most marketable companies that wish to expand their
operations to this region of the world that has recently become a Shangri-La
for media and tech companies, with many major established brands opening
offices in the region and with investment, led by the Russian government,
flowing in the billions and consistent profits significantly higher than
anywhere else in the world. Firebird will, on a reduced and flexible combined
fee and commission structure commit, for clients it deems to be promising, to
extremely timely allocation of transparent capital for expansion and growth.
Its target clientele in this service and otherwise will be small and mid-sized
companies, many of which need assistance to fund expansion. Additionally, the
Firebird SEED program will directly invest $50,000.00 monthly in three
promising start-up companies meeting its criteria that are ready and willing to
launch simultaneously at home and abroad.
Matthew Goldstein, co-founder of Firebird, specializes in the direct sale of
content and technology licensing to regional firms, and localized brand and
marketing development, on behalf of US and European companies. He has worked
for over 15 years in this field as an agent, performing huge deals for major
companies. He has executed several ground-breaking technology deals, including
the creation and sale of the first working GPS network, for NAVTEQ, in Russia,
and conducted content sales for studios including Fox, National Geographic,
Disney, MTV, and Nickelodeon. Presently, Firebird already represents major
digital content provisioners and distributors and markets and sells its
clients' content libraries, which consist of over 100,000 hours of film,
movies, and music from over 100 studios. With Pricewaterhouse Coopers
predicting Russia to become the third largest consumer of content in the world
by 2015, Firebird is eager to continue amalgamating content to sell and is
actively seeking out unique and/or niche producers and studios to represent.
The company works according to established formulas for successful
international Russia and CIS-specific business development that it will use to
build its own brand. The company hopes to become known for being the most
efficient, affordable, dedicated and trustworthy partner in the market,
specifically for small and mid-sized companies; but also for companies of all
sizes and all budgets that are desiring to do business in Russia, the CIS and
Eastern Europe and do not know how or can not afford to move the mountains
needed in order to sell their products to a ravenous and exponentially growing
amount of businesses, across industries, which are eagerly seeking out
technology and content that they can not find easily and affordably through
established channels. Firebird will not just advise its clients with a
navigation map, but will actively participate, as necessary, to help in
performing necessary business development and helping to quickly initiate
long-term partnerships. It will also work with clients to operatively cut
through red tape in order to help them garner licenses, patents and
intellectual property quickly, with significantly less legal expense, with the
goal of helping them to avoid spending money and time that they do not have to
overcome regional bureaucracy and prevent it from inhibiting sales processes.
Although Firebird's specialization lies in media and mass-market technologies,
its Firebird ENS division, run by Vice President and security technologies
expert Sergei Yakovlev, is set up to cater to clients producing energy, nano,
and security-related technologies, all of which are extremely in demand at
present.
Yakovlev states, 'Right now, the government of Russia is the primary investor
in energies, securities and nano. This brings with it certain pluses and
certain minuses. We will attempt to work hand in hand with all regional
governments to the proper degree, and will seek out investment from them when
we think the company is a good fit, but we want to make market entry for our
clients more accessible, less about whom they know to begin with, how large or
small they are, and without mandates regarding their expected partners and
clientele. We will accept clients based on merit and marketability alone and
allow private investors and partners whom we work with equal access to develop
relationships with these companies, hoping to make the markets more accessible
and equitable.'
Thomas Hanson, Director of Business Development for Firebird, comments:
'We are looking to be provide everything necessary to make sure our clients are
able to jump over high buildings in a single leap. While certain
mega-conglomerates may have millions to waste before they start making hundreds
of millions, most companies are on infinitely smaller budgets and can not
afford to take on significant risk, if any at all. Likewise, we will be there
for the conglomerates who have spent themselves to pieces and seen little to no
return, but are ready to go about entry in a more rational fashion and give
themselves another chance to experience success equal to that of their peers.
So long as the product is relevant and the company well-structured we will be
there as much as we are needed.'
Firebird has launched its Web site and has already accepted its first clients.
About Firebird International
In addition to the services listed in the release, Firebird will offer
political and market risk analysis, qualitative and quantitative market
research, marketing adaptation and translation, content dubbing and
closed-captioning, localized HR and corporate training, local partner network
building, government relationship building and management, integration of local
payment systems, localized PR, creation of local R&D programs, merchandising,
co-branding, and events' support, as well as additional legal and real estate
services. It will take fees on a case-by-case basis, depending on its
evaluation of the company's promise and its financial situation, and, in some
cases, will agree to work with clients on equity-sharing agreements. When
taking on start-ups primarily for investment allocation reasons, to begin with,
which it will limit to three per month, Firebird will provide seed capital.
For more information, please call Firebird toll-free from the US at
1-800-593-4346 or, from the UK, at +44208588068. To ask questions via email, or
schedule an appointment to visit with us in either Boston or New York, please
fill out our contact form or simply write us at info@firebirdinternational.com.
If you are a start-up, seeking financing for development, please submit your
business plans to seed@firebirdinternational.com.
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Firebird International
US 1-800-593-4346
UK +44208588068
info@firebirdinternational.com
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