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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page…………………………………….………1 Table of Contents…………………………………….2 Executive Summary…………………………………...3 Industrial Analysis……………………………….……5 United States……………………………………..8 India……………………………………………..9 Germany……………………………..…………12 Technical Analysis…………………………….…….15 Market Analysis……………………………….…….25 United States……………………………………27 India……………………………………….…..30 Germany………………………………….…….33 Manufacturing and Operations………………..…….38 Feasibility……………………………………….…..42 United States…………………………..……….43 Germany…………………………….………….45 India……………………………………………46 Key Personnel……………………………………….49 Bibliography………………………………..……….54 Appendix…………………………………………….57

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STRENGTHS OF THE BUSINESS PLAN ! ! ! ! !

High yielding nature of the bacteria species Cradle to cradle design Availability of bacteria Availability of capital Already available markets for expansion

WEAKNESS OF THE BUSINESS PLAN ! Culturing bacteria that is potentially useless for other purposes OPPURTUNITIES OF THE BUSINESS PLAN: ! Employment ! BIODIESEL providing efficient car usage compared to fossil fuels ! Providing an alternative to crops that are currently being used to produce biodiesel THREATS TO THE BUSINESS PLAN: ! Unavailability of bacteria ! Culturing bacteria that is not useful for other purposes ! Distribution costs of transportation from manufacturing units to retail and distribution centers (distance from field to outlets)

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Hey Joshua Improta, This is Balajee VenkatRaman from Bangalore, India. I have registered for GCA and I'm one of your International Team Mates. Glad to be your Team Mate. I am known to Aswin as we study in the same school who is likely to be our Mentor. I along with Nikhil (my Country team-mate, who is my classmate) are happy to part with you throughout the journey of GCA 2008-09. Kindly do mail me when you will be online so that we can discuss (either in your Standard Time or in Indian Standard Time) so that we can discuss about the project. We do have some ideas and we shall share ideas bringing out the Best. Keep In Touch. Let me know when you will be online. Waiting for your reply as soon as possible. "Hope For Winning The BEST" Regards, Balajee VenkatRaman

Hey, I do not necessarily know what time will be good for me, because of soccer. When will you be available? ;<" "

Regards, Joshua

October 5, 2008: Aswin to the Team Hey , Just mailing to check in how things are going with your project. I haven't heard from you in a while and thought i'd check up on your progress and assist you with any help that you might need. Please let me know if you or your team is facing any help and i'd only be glad to help! Keep me updated on your progress every week . -Regards, Aswin

November 1, 2008: Nikhil To Aneesha Hey, First of all,welcome to the team.The entire team is delighted to have you with us so swiftly after Somer left.Josh tells me that he has already written to you giving you the jist of our team.My country teammate Balajee and I would also,however,like to know what we need to know about you.Firstly where are you from...and other required details would also be helpful. If you have any problems regarding any issue you can contact either Josh,Balajee,Aswin or me. Nikhil

November 12, 2007: Nikhil To The Team

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How's everything going?Josh,I'm hoping you've made progress on the STEM explorations...and give Aneesha a low down on what the two of you are supposed to be doing as well. I would like to have a conference call with all of you on Sunday,the 16th of November at 8.00 p.m. IST(which is around 10.30 a.m in the United Sates).We need to proceed with the team building exercises and STEM explorations,something I'm sure you are all aware of.Aswin will be there as well,so he can run us through the finer details regarding everything we are supposed to be doing.And whatever happens DO NOT miss this conference.In case of any problem report to me at the earliest. Looking forward to meeting all of you on Sunday! Nikhil

November 12, 2008: from Aswin to the Team

Hey , I wanted you guys to take a look at this - when you open the link - look to the left side (the dropdown menu) and read all those balances that they are talking about ...... i want one of you to have a clear understanding on all of them that apply to your project. http://www.globalchallengeaward.org/team_tools/globalresources.html -Regards, Aswin

November 12, 2008: between Balajee And Aneesha Hey, This is Balajee VenkatRaman your international team-mate. I live in Bangalore, India. And once for all welcome to our team-"Simple Thoughts". Do kindly introduce yourself. I hope you are in touch with Joshua Improta. Nikhil and I are classmates. Kindly do introduce ;R" "

yourself. Regards, Balajee VenkatRaman Hello, I am very happy to join a committed team as well, because I left my other team because of a lack of a commitment. I am from New Jersey, USA where I have lived practically my whole life. I was involved in an extremely rigorous competition from 6-9 grade, where I was involved with Science Olympiad, a national organization. Our school won first place in the entire USA, for our competitive events, of which I participated in Ecology, Meterology and general Biology. Science is a passion of mine, and that was why I decided to join Global Challenge in the first place. However, this is my first year doing this, and I haven't done STEM explorations before. I would really appreciate it if you guys could fill me in as to what I need to do. Thanks Aneesha

November 13, 2008: Aswin To The Team

Hi , I have a good news for you guys - the thing that spoke about the limit of pages that each document should be has been scrapped - you guys can do that document for however long you guys want it to be - I am looking for a minimum of 3 pages atleast on each document but i'm sure you have way more than that to write ..... hopefully - See you at skl toms then ! -Regards, Aswin

November 18, 2008: from Aswin- to Team Hey guy , Just thought I must give you a heads up before you guys land up in any trouble .... - if ;J" "

you're password is still 'gca' for e-folio ....... then you must change it ASAP before uploading anything to the e-folio so that there are no members from other teams who alter/delete your work .... So please change it ASAP ......

-Regards, Aswin

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