North Star Funding Corporation

Vendor Support

We utilize our VendorSecure™ program to compliment your current sales process while taking on the burden and busy work required to secure financing for your customers so your sales reps can stay focused on sales. By working within your sales process we can help pre-qualify customers so your sales team knows what to expect when dealing with customers credit worthiness.

Vendor Benefits:

• Long amortization terms keeps payment low and qualifies for operating lease requirements
• Tier one credit rated customers get market competitive terms
• Challenged, structured and start up credits get approved
• Deal size are as low as $10k and up
• Pre-funding to vendor is from 50% to 100% of invoice amount
• Maintenance, service and warranty can be added to transaction and paid upfront in invoice amount

Customer Support

The objective is to present an ongoing resource by using our experience and knowledge of the ever changing leasing community in presenting the best options currently available with the following abilities:
Start Ups:

• up to $100k- Closely held smaller companies looking to start out in the industry.
• $150k to $5M- Diverse ownership of institutional investors, angel groups or spin offs.

Structured:

• $75k to $5M- Challenged or strained balance sheets of private or public companies looking to upgrade or diversify with product growth.

Operating Budgets:

• $100k to $15M- Financing structured as maintenance and service contract agreements.
• $100k to $15M- True Operating Leases designed to meet immediate monthly operating budget dollars with deferred principle pay off to meet allocated fiscal budget dollars.

App Only:

• $25k to $200k- Designed to leverage good time in business without full financial disclosure.

Sectors

• North America including Canada
• Municipalities

Global Transaction Criteria:

• Transactions $1MM US Dollars or above
• All asset class considered

Requirements:

• 2 Years Audited or Reviewed Financials
• Current Interims no older then 90 days
• If Publicly Traded must list on respected exchange and only Interims are required
• Equipment Quote

Countries:

• Algeria
• Austria
• Belgium
• China
• France
• Germany
• Hungary
• India
• Italy
• Luxembourg
• Morocco
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Spain
• Switzerland
• Turkey
• Ukraine
• United Kingdom

Gibrahn
Vice President National Sales
http://www.linkedin.com/in/gibrahn
877.377.5100 | 5758
858.875.6415 | fax
gibrahn.v | skype
gibrahn@northstarfundingcorp.com
www.northstarfundingcorp.com

Euler Hermes

Euler Hermes, a company of Allianz is North America’s largest and oldest provider of trade credit insurance (also called accounts receivable insurance). We offer both domestic and export credit insurance policies that insure clients against commercial and political risk in more than 200 countries worldwide.

Trade credit insurance is a financial tool to hedge against both commercial and political risks that are beyond a company’s control. Balance sheet strength is ensured, cash flows are protected, and loan servicing and repayments are enhanced.

A trade credit insurance policy also allows companies to feel secure in extending more credit to current customers, or to pursue new, larger customers that would have otherwise seemed too risky.

The protection it provides allows a company to increase sales to grow their business with existing customers. Insured companies can sell on open account terms where they may be restrictive today or only sell on a secured basis. For exporters, this especially can be a major competitive advantage.

Companies invest in trade credit insurance for a variety of reasons, including:

1. Sales expansion – if receivables are insured, a company can safely sell more to existing customers, or go after new customers that may have been too risky without insurance.
2. Better financing terms – in many cases, a bank will lend more capital against insured receivables, and may also reduce the cost of funds.
3. Reduce bad-debt reserves – This frees up cash for the company. Also, trade credit insurance premiums are tax deductible, but bad debt reserves are not.
4. Indemnification from customer non-payment
5. Expansion into new international markets

While indemnification is what most companies recognize as the main reason to purchase trade credit insurance, the most common reason to invest in a policy is because it helps them increase their sales and profits.

Maria Palomino is the sales agent representative focusing in working with Telecommunication companies given she’s worked with Cisco Systems and Xerox prior to Euler Hermes.  Please contact Maria via e-mail at maria.palomino@eulerhermes.com or by phone at 714-686-9695. Please feel free to visit our website to learn more about Euler Hermes at www.eulerhermes.us

The Texas based telecom company received an additional $400,000 in working capital.  Seth Block, Thermo Credit’s Executive Vice President stated, “We are very excited that we were able to increase All Access’s facility. They have exceeded their sales projections while running a first class operation. We are also pleased to be working with Gulf South in participating this facility and hope to do much more with them in the future.”

Lamar Carter, President of All Access said, “This concludes our third round of funding from Thermo Credit as they continue to support our domestic termination growth strategy at All Access Telecom. With the current tight capital markets, Thermo Credit has proven to be an integral part of our success since our inception in November 2009. We are very excited to be working with Gulf South on the increase of our facility. This round of funding will be instrumental as we venture to diversify our service offering with the launch of our 800 INTRUDER carrier service for 2012.”

Kyle Saucier, Fund Manager of the Gulf South Receivables Fund stated, “We are very pleased to assist in the growth of All Access Telecom and to participate in our first transaction with Thermo. We look forward to working with Thermo in the future and hope to help other businesses grow and expand through our partnership.”

Blue Beacon Capital

Blue Beacon Capital is one of the leading, private investment banks serving companies in the communications and technology industries.

We represent middle market and growth stage companies on mergers, acquisitions, exclusive sales, restructurings, private placements and fairness opinions.

We provide high impact strategic and financial advice to senior management and boards of directors always recommending ideas and strategies that we would pursue ourselves were we acting in management’s capacity.  We have an established reputation as a trusted advisor helping to devise and execute transactions that enhance shareholder value. We combine a broad network of relationships with deep sector knowledge and seasoned strategic advisory expertise to deliver a superior, senior level of service for clients who value experience, judgment, candor and insight.

Our senior team is comprised of proven, battle-tested investment bankers who formerly ran large industry groups at prestigious Wall Street firms.  Collectively, our team has completed hundreds of transactions representing over $75 billion of value over the past 15 years across the communications and technology sectors.

Our team has represented such companies as Bell Canada, PSINet, Teleglobe, Adelphia Communications, Savvis, Colt Telecom, Intermedia Communications, XM Satellite Radio, Digital Island, TRICOM, Focal Communications, Mpower Communications, AppliedTheory, Teligent, Speakeasy, New Global Telecom, NextWeb, TMC Communications, Excel Telecom, IDT, GLOBALINX, and a wide variety of smaller private companies.

The volume of business Blue Beacon Capital receives through referrals as well as follow-on assignments from existing clients attests to the success of the Firm.

For more information about our services, please contact Roger Valdovinos at 609.514.8500.

Silver Oak Advisors

Silver Oak Advisors’ founders bring over 40 years of Big 4 and Industry property tax experience. Silver Oak was formed to provide taxpayers in need of State and Local Tax (SALT) assistance. We are former Big 4 and industry experienced professionals with specific industry and/or property expertise.

Most firms are forced to use internal firm personnel for all engagements regardless if use of the professional is in the best interest of the client. Silver Oak recognizes this problem and has a team of the best SALT professionals with expertise in your industry and in the markets throughout the U.S. who work directly with our Directors to handle your SALT issues.

Today, the most sought after professionals in our business work for themselves in smaller practices and boutique law firms. Silver Oak works together with these firms to supplement our professional’s expertise in order to provide our clientele with the “best in class”. This gives your company the right professional with the expertise in your industry and in the markets throughout the U.S. where you need the assistance the most.

We are working Directors allowing us to provide a higher level of service at a cost effective rate, passing on the savings to you.

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Ben Bronston - Telecom Lawyer

Ben Bronston is a nationally recognized expert in the field of telecommunications law and regulation. For over 20 years, he has developed an extensive knowledge of legal and regulatory issues affecting telecommunications service providers, agents, VARs, TEM consultants, carriers, resellers and providers of new technologies, such as hosted PBX and other cloud services. He has provided advice and counsel to many of the most highly regarded agencies, consultants and service providers in the industry and was recently selected as the winner of the Telecom Association’s 2010 Member’s Choice award in the telecom legal category. Ben has served as a director for several telecommunications companies, including most recently a triple-play provider of satellite television, high-speed Internet and telephone services. Ben actively represents clients in the areas of agent agreements and negotiations; vendor agreements; and complex telecom transactions. Ben has the distinction of representing several of the industry’s largest master agents and cutting edge service providers. He is also a regular contributing author on channel issues for both Channel Partners Magazine and Channel Vision Magazine. He was a co-founder of a private venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to the communications industry and is a former member of the Channel Partners Advisory Board. Bronston is a summa cum laude graduate of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and Tulane Law School.

Ben Bronston has earned a reputation as being one of the most respected lawyers specializing in the telecommunications industry. Ben’s broad-based corporate and legal background, combined with extensive experience in representing telecommunications and technology companies, enable him to offer a unique combination of talent and experience to his clients.

For more information, please visit www.telecomlawyer.net or contact Ben Bronston at 713-778-1000 or bbronston@telecomlawyer.net.

HotLava Systems

HotLava Systems is a privately held company engaged in the design and manufacturing of innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Founded in 2003 and based in Oakland, California, HotLava’s customers include industry-leading innovators of network security solutions and Internet service providers throughout the world.

By reducing or eliminating congestion at the network interface, HotLava network adapters enable today’s powerful servers and workstations to deliver more productivity through increased port density and higher throughput. Based on world class components and drivers from companies such as Intel, every HotLava network adapter card is natively supported by virtually all operating systems.

HotLava network adapters are ideally suited for space-limited network appliances and servers, providing the maximum port density and network bandwidth required by demanding I/O intensive applications such as:

• Server virtualization
• Unified Threat Management appliances
• High availability, failover, backup, and redundancy
• Bandwidth intensive file transfer applications such as video and graphic design environments
• Traffic generation for server, switch, and router performance testing
• QoS load Balancing
• Link Aggregation
• Ethernet switch and server consolidation

With their high performance, low cost-per-port, and ease of installation, HotLava products offer the best value in multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet network adapters.

For more information on HotLava Systems, please visit http://hotlavasystems.com or call 1.855.HOT.LAVA (468.5282).

You may also reach HotLava Systems via email at hotinfo@hotlavasystems.com.

StrataScale

StrataScale offers innovative dedicated server and cloud hosting solutions to meet the IT infrastructure needs of businesses of all sizes.  StrataScale cloud computing environments are built on a world-class data center, with web portal access to a UI to manage and scale all of your resources in minutes.  Every StrataScale hosting environment is custom and scalable – backed by guaranteed uptime, features financial-grade security, and delivers 24×7 engineering support.  What StrataScale clients avoid is CapEx and IT infrastructure headaches, and what they get is agility, latest technologies, and peace of mind.

StrataScale solutions are enterprise-grade, affordable, highly scalable, very secure, and super reliable: great for businesses of any size, age, industry, geography.  StrataScale clients include a mix of large enterprises and SMBs, and a number of VAR channel partners.  Sectors served include health care services providers, game developers, E-tail companies, and SaaS developers.

Do you want to know more about The Cloud?  Please go to Free Cloud Hosting Guide to receive a cloud whitepaper.  How can we help you?  Please go to StrataScale.com, call us at 866.955.4519, or send an Email to jrichard@stratascale.com.

TMC’s Erik Linask speaks with ThermoCredit’s Executive Vice President, Seth Block