Wave Systems Corp. (fka WAVXQ)

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Wavexpress.

Notice the client is Wavexpress and not Wave. Progress Partners - Investment banking and strategic consulting services for Next Media. Any speculation?

Progress Partners client, Wavexpress, has partnered with NBC Sports and Microsoft to offer HD coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Windows Vista Media Center. To download the application and watch Olympics events, visit:http://www.nextmediaupdate.com/?tag=Wavexpress

Corporate Finance

Many high growth companies can benefit from external financing to accelerate growth. However, securing business financing can be a time consuming distraction from growing and managing a successful business. The Progress PathSM helps clients choose the right time to bring in investment capital as well as determine the right amount to maximize value. Progress Partners manages the process so our clients can focus on managing business operations.

Progress Partners helps companies find short and long term financing from both strategic and financial investors. In each instance, the goal is that the investor bring value beyond money. Progress Partners draws from an extensive network of relationships at every level of the investment community - seed, venture, private equity, mezzanine investors, and customized debt sources.

Key Activities:
• Identifying financing options and analyzing their relative costs and benefits
• Finding strategic investors
• Developing and coaching on the investor presentation
• Preparing management for the investor presentations
• Negotiation terms

Mergers and Acquisitions

When a company is ready to grow through acquisition, or achieve a liquidity event through a sale or other exit, Progress Partners helps clients develop and execute a transaction strategy. Obtaining maximum value on a sale, or executing a successful acquisition, requires a disciplined process to assure success.

Progress Partners’ integrated approach allows us to work in an M&A transaction, implementing our strategic planning and business development efforts, to significantly enhance exit values and business success for our client.

Key Activities:
• Analyzing the company to determine appropriate transaction opportunities
• Developing the appropriate materials to market the company to transaction partners
• Identifying and contacting suitable transaction partners (targets or acquirers)
• Assisting in the presentation of the company and developing the business case
• Negotiating terms, managing the closing teams and performing due diligence

Strategic Planning and Execution

Progress Partners helps companies chart a path to success. This process begins with an analysis of the potential paths and culminates with experienced advisors helping senior management choose a course of action, based on relevant risks and opportunities and an assessment of the company’s capabilities.
Progress Partners’ strategy work includes planning as well as implementation. Progress Partners works with early and mid stage companies to expand team capabilities in the short term and sources key talent to help companies internalize those skills in order to grow.

Key Activities:
• Market Analysis
• Scenario Planning
• Process Coaching

Corporate Development and New Market Product Assessment and Launch

Progress Partners’ Corporate Development program is about building value to validate technology and market acceptance through new business opportunities. Progress works with the company to land new clients, quickly accumulate referral customers, build business value through sales acceleration, and put in process a continued sales success strategy. This strategy includes identifying team members who can continue to implement the sales strategy over time.

Progress Partners offers an extensive network of executive level relationships and a proprietary customized lead generation process to effectively make potential reference customer connections.

Launching new products or expanding outside current markets to reach customers in new industries or geographic regions, has associated costs and risks. Progress Partners’ market assessment approach reduces the risk of new market selection and new market entry by providing market intelligence and direct exposure. As a result, multiple new market opportunities can be evaluated simultaneously, prioritized, and created with initial introductions for early success.

Progress Partners’ market assessment approach reduces the risk of new market selection and entry by providing both market intelligence and direct exposure.

Multiple new market opportunities can be evaluated simultaneously, prioritized, and opened with initial introductions and early success.

Key Activities:
• Analyzing in-market needs
• Guiding product revision process based on customer feedback
• Identifying and landing important partnerships
• Identifying and closing reference clients/customers
• Developing customized business development processes
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