Raised $500,000 in seed financing for Arabella Romances magazine, recruiting/negotiating with angels and managing the legal process Built the company's editorial and advertising sales infrastructure, and relationships with printers, distributors, freelance contributors, fulfillment firms and consultants Wrote the company's business plan, a finalist in the Fall 2002 Roland Berger Competition Created the company's revenue model, including advertising, newsstand and subscription sales Developed a paid circulation of 10,000 readers for the magazine on a very limited budget Early version of business plan named as a finalist in the prestigeous INSEAD - Roland Berger European Business Plan Competition Drafted Private Placement Memoranda for numerous clients ranging from industrial machinery to Internet content Large variety of M&A, Equity, and Debt transactions for large clients, while an investment banker for Lehman Brothers