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The South Park Development Group, E L V Motors, and Wabi Cycles are innovating to reduce emission, polluting vehicles in Los Angeles-NOW

South Park Development Group

South Park Development Group

-posted by Martin Cavanaugh Porter (CEO South Park Development Group) & Jeffrey Chung (CIO South Park Development Group)
The South Park Development Group has contacted: Bill Allen with the LA Economic Development Department, City Council Woman Jan Perry, Gail Goldberg, Los Angeles’ highly innovative city planner, Jaime De La Vega, Deputy Mayor for Transportation, and Veronica with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative in order to develop powerful, institutional support for high-quality, affordable, zero-emission vehicles: From scooters to vans that you plug in the wall and emit zero-absolutely zero emissions.
We will keep you posted regarding their response and follow-up as we have invited them to join with The South Park Development Group, E L V Motors, and Wabi Cycles (www.wabicycles.com) to:
1. Make Los Angeles more livable.
2. Bring New jobs to Los Angeles.
3. Promote fleet-sales to the city and county and to private institutions of fully electric, quality, value priced, zero-emissions vehicles.
4. Shore up the tax base.
Tomorrow ELV Motors and The South Park Development Group will begin a series of day-in, day-out bue sky sessions resulting in a foundational-partnership to assemble and distribute zero-emission scooters to vans in Los Angeles using D.T Los Angeles (South Park Los Angeles) as a ground zero hub for bleeding edge innovation.
What is on the table: The potential that E L V Motors will relocate their hq and plant to DTLos Angeles and that South Park Los Angeles will be used as an ideas incubator to prove the veracity and ingenuity of fully-electric scooters, vans, and cars.
Further that Wabi Cycles, an easy-to-use, top quality, value-priced cycle company, founded by Richard Snook, a thirty year cycle industry veteran (www.wabicycles.com) whose cycles are assembled and hq in South Park Los Angeles will become an important driver motivating people to take short-distance trips on safe, aesthetically pleasing cycles.
Finally that local stake-holders like Rasmus Lee with PRE Brokerage (and Hygge Bakery-which, in alliance with The South Park Development Group will be using a fully electric, zero-emission delivery van for their bakery) are willing to think so far out of the box to get this city moving again, through new, innovative agreements.
These stories must be told and what is so motivating is that important forces are moving with the Rasmus Lee, Martin Cavanaugh Porter, The South Park Development Group, WabiCycles, and E L V Motors, to improve the quality of life for the residents of Los Angeles.

Transformational Change: Daniel Scwartz C.E.O, of ELV Motors, Martin Cavanaugh Porter, C.E.O & Jeffrey Chung, C.I.O of Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC-The South Park Development Group Bring Zero-Emission Fleet Vehicles (from scooters to electric-plug in delievery vans)

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ELV Motors and The South Park Development Group

-posted by Jeffrey Chung  C.I.O & Martin Cavanaugh Porter with The  South Park Development Group

Downtown Los Angeles is congested, clogged, and crammed full of heavily polluting vehicles and ELV Motors and the South Park Development Group are working to forge a powerful partnership to in three stages:

The first stage: A centralized retail environment stocked with zero-emission vehicles from base line scooters to fully electric-powered, zero emission delivery vans and trucks- this week a small delivery of base-line vehicles was delivered to The South Park Sustainability Shop (which will not begin sales of the vehicles until a fuller, more comprehensive line is available to show-however, when that occurs, even as construction occurs, The Shop will begin selling product. In stages a graphics-repair department will open on-site to provide The Shop’s members (”anyone who buys from The Shop is not a client, a number, or a dollar sign: they are members of The Shop-valued, considered, and cared for.”-Jeffrey Chung, Chief Information Officer FLV LLC-South Park Development Group). Of note: The Shop will offer financing to qualified buyers.

The second stage: Forging alliances with city-wide stake holders (using South Park L.A as the core best-practice ‘green’ platform to test ideas) to move hotels, whole complexes, and the city itself to lease or purchase ELV Zero-Emission vehicles, transforming our cities’ green scape. Paradigm Change is often used in relation to this kind of goal setting.

This is more than that: This is Transformational Change. ELV-Motors and The South Park Development Group, will build South Park Los Angeles into the hub-ground-zero of bleeding edge innovation, lively, elan-filled innovators, glowing and challenging the guardians of the status-quo, the keepers of the rusting, creaking gates.

Concurrently: Forbes Legacy Ventures will be working around the clock with ELV Motors to elevate the image, the branding, and the marketing of the entire package-from the vehicles, to the website, the direct mailers, the international email marketing campaigns, and the p.r campaigns.

The Third Stage: Using ‘lessons-learned’ in Down Town Los Angeles (painting a zero-emissions portrait in South Park Los Angeles) ELV Motors, Forbes Legacy Ventures LLC, and The South Park Development Group will take the systematized platform nationally and internationally (already there is growing interest in the ELV-FLV LLC model in South Korea).

Is this real? Is there heft and weight to this? It’s in motion already: Stage One has begun and the Principals of both companies- the c.e.o  of ELV Motors and the c.e.o of Forbes Legacy Ventures-The South Park Development Group are in discussion to tighten time-lines and engage in a series of blue-sky sessions, day after day in the upcoming week and month to follow to begin stage two and map out stage three.

a game changing c.f.o-the importance of having a great mentor in your organization

c.f.o as game-changer
c.f.o as game-changer

as c.e.o i deliberate, i engage in strategic thinking, and I develop the best strategy that should be implemented on behalf of my team, my clients, my family, and my community. most often, strategically, we are right on the money, backed by powerful tactical flanking executed by the team.

 i don’t always know how to handle everyone-i don’t always get interpersonal relationships right: i am burdened by the entirety of the enterprise-which is no excuse-i refuse excuses from others and will not accept one from myself.

but, i can become so engaged in the day’s affairs and so wrapped up in my own ego, that i can’t see the forest from the trees-and the trees are my team. trees need water and the chance to grow.

i became insensibly unable to deal with a member of the team because i could not, through my limited prism of life and business experience comprehend the true nature of that person’s character or abilities-and i gave up. my c.f.o did not. she saw what i did not: a biz developer, a hustler, a beehive worker-a passionate, unique individual whose life experiences, bound together into a quilt of embedded memory make her a valuable player to my clients, my team, and to me.

 my c.f.0, eve, worked with her and what i can see-early days-is an early spring of personal growth and business mojo. always listen in business, always look for the tipping point, which is to be found at the edges, not at the centre, at those moments when you should listen, and are not. effective=active=acting intelligently. that’s what i am beginning to see  in this person that the c.f .o is mentoring, and i am proud and grateful.

we may have a business development powerhouse on our hands in this young acolyte.

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green-organic boot-strap v.c funding in south park l.a: hope RIZE

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 15, 2009

south park los angeles: the world’s next great business incubator- a first step

Friday, May 15, 2009

 

the hopeRIZE fund:finding and boot strap funding GREEN-ORGANIC entreprenenuers

today, brett and I will be filing the securities and exchange paperwork for the hopeRIZE fund: moving toward solution-first round financing for young, dynamic, highly innovative future GREEN ORGANIC entrepreneurs: core component attribute: the startup(s) must be HQ downtown southpark l.a. within the four block LUNA-EVO-EVO SOUTH-FLOWER STREE LOFT schema.

we look forward to working with South Park stake holders to advance this goal.
-martin cavanaugh porter III and brett h tomich.
questions? you can email: info@southparkbusinessincubator.biz 
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50-for-500 club

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 14, 2009

we cannot remain locked in a disparate darkness of financial road blocks to innovation. 

the best time to innovate, invest, and grow is through a recession by supporting groundbreaking start up-entrepreneurs who often lack the ‘get in the door’ credentials to accelerate their product to market and reach the payback period to investors. 

the los angeles business war room round table must assist start-ups and on-going businesses receive a degree of credit from suppliers, obtain second rounds of financing, and have access to state-of-the art technology to leverage their innovation and bring their product or service to market. 

let us look at the present value, beta, efficiency frontier modelling through the lens: degree to which we can support an innovator succeed.

credit scores: one part of a whole- many individuals credit scores have taken a hit these last years and/or young men and women don’t have enough credit history to have an adequate score.

Let us move beyond the obvious in our collective thinking ”We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Einstein.

 lets also talk about: innovation scores (can product or service be brought to market or improved and be re-branded in short order with a reasonable expectation of success) and credibility scores (what is the individual’s relationship with his freinds and family like-this is a prime new way of balancing a potentially low credit score). full due-diligence adding criteria that allows for a more balanced view of the potential investment. 

 

brett and I propose the  50 for 500 club to begin to provide direct, technical,branding, ongoing strategic advice and limited financial ‘boot strap’ assistance to one potential innovative, entrepreneurial  graduate from the USC Marshall School of Business through the South Park Business Incubator (a private business incubator, a business  unit of the South Park Development Group). much more to come about the 50 for 500 club in the days ahead.

 south park biz incubator (also called la biz incubator) would provide legal, technical, office, branding and marketing assistance (unlimited email marketing campaign blasts, free, best of breed website-on line ecommerce presence, viral-SEO marketing, business planning, and assistance in 2nd and third round financing) for the life of the start-up company, taking a 10% interest.

members of the 50 for 500 club in return for each member putting up a $500.00 stake in the venture, collectively own 10% interest.

it’s a new model: double down on the angel  investor model and drive innovation and the hopes of start-up businessmen and women.

the 50 for 500 club will be on the agenda  at the first war room round table.

questions? ideas? email: btomich@southparkbusinessincubator.biz or mcporter@southparkbusinessincubator.biz

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entreprenuer magazine blog posting on forbes legacy ventures llc-l.a biz incubator inc

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 14, 2009
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entrepreneur magazine’s blog has said of forbes legacy ventures llc’s model is that it is a hybrid v.c, branding, ecommerce organization both % -equity based and or fee based that is the first organization that seems to be flexible enough to provide concrete, universal solutions to small-medium businesses. they have integrated business consulting with v.c allowing small business access to technologically complex solutions and focused growth strategies at a very reasonable rate….”

forbes legacy ventures llc is so pleased to announce that they are being closely watched by business week , whole foods blog, and the real estate industry report: they are humbled-they feel it is thier duty to  live up to the accolades…..forbes legacy ventures llc- the south park development group-l.a biz incubator will endeavor every day, in every way to provide maximum value to its clients

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e-raod cycle, update 2

Posted in E-Road: zero carbon emission mode of transport by downtownlabiz on May 13, 2009

E-ROAD Update 2

the forbes legacy ventures team will be test driving the E-Road this sunday at, 2pm.

almost zero carbon emissions

seems perfect for downtown….we will keep you posted…

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korean airlines: downtown’s biggest booster-exemplifies korean business practice: the mentality of a warrior

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 12, 2009

Korean Air

Korean airlines: a developer? yup. the only player spending a billion plus to build downtown los angeles’ newest, biggest, tallest, most state of the art skyscraper.

go figure: investing through the recession.

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a better farmer’s market for downtown los angeles update 2(first posted in southparkla.com)

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 12, 2009

happily, a key and important stake-holder in our south park community has conditionally embraced the idea of a weekly farmer’s market for the community.

further, he has brought to the table some very forward-thinking, well thought out ideas, reorienting our own conceptions-essentially, significantly improving on them.

based on our chat, (this gentleman was very patient with us and gave wide berth to the overly energized c.e.o), we will continue to move forward with our plans to develop a weekly, organic, widely-ranged farmers market.

the stake-holder opened up for us the extent of the potential market-from FIDM north, to the California Hospital Med Center to the south, LA Live (Ritz-Marriott) to the west, and a vitalized, vibrant ‘edgy’ mix of lofts to the east.

the community thanks him-I certainly do.

we will keep you posted on this potential game changer: more community activity, more connectivity: bringing ‘neighborhood’ to steel towers and lifting quality of life.

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a workable model: moving beyond credit scores: the next model-innovation scores

Posted in Uncategorized by downtownlabiz on May 11, 2009

it is important that entrepreneurship at it’s most grass-roots level flourish.

banks are barely lending to small companies-even ones that have been established for awhile and have good credit.

a group of micro-angle investors  needs to develop a new model to pump-prime young, bright entrepreneurs in downtown los angeles based on four components:

1. efficacy of product or service: supremely simple, ingenuous, and highly marketable through a blend of marketing tactics: on line and on the ground-backed by powerful viral-seo-email marketing.

2. willingness of start-up entrepreneur to accept sound advice and follow workable plans, and systems.

3. non-monetized collateral: trust/commendations, and personal references.

4. understanding that % of ownership and/or % of gross will be retained for working shoulder-to-shoulder with them.

many young entrepreneurs don’t have enough of a credit history or/and for a variety of plausible reasons (the economy) have poor credit.

lets move beyond credit scores to innovation scores and develop a hybrid model of boot-strap financing in downtown l.a for businesses and start-ups with great ideas, good products, and a proven track record of treating people with decency and respect.

for more info on this please visit: www.revanchist group.com or/and LABWRBLOG.wordpress.com

thoughts? ideas? are you one of those entreprenuers or a potential micro-angel investor ($500-$1000) please email: info@southparkbusinessincubator.biz

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