Patent ID: 8255306
Filing Date: 2012-08-28
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computerized method comprising: identifying a plurality of businesses which have achieved a selected financial performance target of $30 million to $70 million in annual revenue; identifying financial revenue growth rate statistics for each of the plurality of businesses to screen for exponential revenue growth companies, based upon data for the identified businesses obtained from financial databases; determining exponential revenue growth trajectory curves from the revenue growth rate data for the identified businesses using a computer, to identify an inflection point in the revenue growth trajectory curve for each business that is indicative of where annual revenue is in the range of $30 million to $70 million; determining an exponential equation defining a maximum curve for a mean 4 year trajectory of revenue growth to $1 billion in revenue, and an exponential equation defining a minimum curve for a mean 12 year trajectory of revenue growth to $1 billion in revenue, using a computer; and screening target businesses that have at least $30,000,000 in annual revenues based on the revenue growth rate data for the identified businesses, wherein screening comprises identifying an inflection point in the determined revenue growth rate trajectory curve from which the business's revenue growth can be normalized, and selecting target businesses, based on the revenue level and revenue growth rate data for each business, by using a computer to determine which of the identified businesses have revenue growth rate trajectory curves that fall within the bounds of the minimum and maximum curves for achieving a forecasted revenue growth to $1 Billion in revenue within a predetermined timeframe of between 4 and 12 years from the time of the inflection point in the businesses' revenue growth trajectory curve; and outputting a list of the target businesses selected by the above screening as having above-average potential to achieve a selected financial performance target of $1 Billion in revenue within the predetermined timeframe.