Please note: American Century Importing investing process only includes small high-tech startups and companies. We have no expertise in anything else.

Utilizing a Holding Company

By creating a holding company to both accept funds and provide flexibility buying/merging/licensing of promising high tech growth companies. We will not give money to new companies to do as they please. Our judgement is preferred. Our judgement creates a holding company for control and profits.

How it works

• We find, through research, compatible companies ready to grow and then purchase or integrate
• Possibly merge several companies resulting in greater efficiencies
• Provide all research to all internal companies
• Use common software and common accounting
• Eventually becoming part of a Manufacturing Village for long-term viability

Several parameters are important

• Is a small part the company makes that enables bigger products
• Is anyone else researching or developing a competing product or technology
• Are the originators capable of helping, but not responsible for growth
• What are current production methods
• Could important intellectual property be involved
• Could companies be merged
• Is the technology ahead of competition
• Could a larger company easily create the products seeming so original shortly before

We would need to

• Create an investment fund raising maybe 100 million US dollars
• Find the best people in our technology areas and pay them large amounts of money to work on making things work
• Get all the companies we work with a structured environment
  • Same legal structure
  • Same software to run a business including manufacturing and warehouse functions
  • Accounting structure for many purposes, including auditing and year-to-year comparisons
•  Determine if a good idea is now badly handled
• Determine the proper price and investment required for each business
• Be prepared to walk-away if the payback over a period of time is not acceptable
•  80 percent success rate easily balances out any losses
• Several groups with internal related products should be formed
• Central management office for accounting, legal, digital design and services, etc.
• Long-term success over several generations of administrations
• Eventually most of the early investments will be folded into a Manufacturing Village, part of the reindustrializing America project

Where will these small Techno firms be found

• The publications about the most interesting companies are readily available for free such a Nasa Tech Briefs, Fabricator, NED, and so many more
• Many are looking for investment but they maybe missing a communication channel
• Universities are full of people with ideas
• Ideas could arrive in America from anywhere around the world