hello all, Well good news. I've made good progress on my business plan. The actual company outline/structure is really easy to write. However the marketing, research and competition portions have required tremendous amounts of localized research. This is a yet not realized market in my area so I'm having to write out several scenarios and then go through them with a fine tooth comb to find the most feasible, least costly but long term effective solutions. I'm also trying to minimize the costly trial and error process. To err is human, to err without forethought is silly.
I forgot how tedious writing one of these things gets. But I'm painting a portrait not a house. So little strokes. My biggest challenge thus far has not even been the figuring out my budget or financial concerns as it has been finding an adequate WVO oil supply to keep up with my propossed plant size (1000 US Gallons input per 24 hours period). Of the 50 or so restaurants I've queried in my immediate area none of them [net totals] cycle out oil fast enough to meet my needs. (Which is quickly narrowing down the restaurants that I patronize.) Vegetable oil gets to the viscosity of used motor oil quickly with heavy usage. I dont understand trying to stretch the oil (topping off old oil), it makes the food taste like soap after a while. I've written in an incentive program into the model that compensates restaurants for their WVO, but I'm trying to avoid that for the moment. However I may wind up resorting to it, if WVO quality is too poor. I'm continuing my survey of surrounding zones (about 15 miles radious from propossed plant sites) for the the highest oil consumption. This will ultimatly decide where I put the plant. Recovery and distribution figures are the most easily controlled cost in my current model. I may wind up moving the project closer to Washington DC as it has a much higher ratio of restaurants per square mile. In any case I need to get back to researching and writing my back-up plans for the model. If anyone is interested I can post a generic WVO business plan (outline). It's more or less a fill in the blanks deal. No single business plan is going to work for every business and it's definetly a living document. It's not a cut and dry plan, but it will get you going in the correct direction. cheers, cordain dulles, va From: "Pat McCotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [biofuels-biz] Quiet... Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 06:16:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [64.252.1.96] Received: from [64.211.240.232] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id MHotMailBD18157B002D400438CE40D3F0E85300126; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:17:52 -0700 Received: from [10.1.4.55] by fk.egroups.com with NNFMP; 13 Jul 2001 10:16:31 -0000 Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 13 Jul 2001 10:16:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 28104 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2001 10:16:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 13 Jul 2001 10:16:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hotmail.com) (64.4.23.222) by mta3 with SMTP; 13 Jul 2001 10:16:27 -0000 Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:16:27 -0700 Received: from 64.252.1.96 by lw15fd.law15.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:16:26 GMT >From sentto-3381553-252-995019391-ohwrd Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:19:47 -0700 X-eGroups-Return: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Apparently-To: biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jul 2001 10:16:27.0003 (UTC) FILETIME=[E05044B0:01C10B84] Mailing-List: list biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thank you for the kick. I just joined a couple days ago. I am walking, nay, running, to the archives right now to see if my questions can be answered concerning government regs in setting up a mini-refinery, taxation (I'm in Connecticut, US, and I see that UK does tax biodiesel) on sale of product, etc. I have talked to in power Democratic folks about it - "Biodiesel? What's that?" So, again, thanks for the kick. Pat _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
