What we do

Global Internet Advisors offers a range of specific advisory services to get your international expansion job done. Services benefit both early-stage companies as well as Fortune 1000 firms looking to globalize their Internet business efforts. Services include:

• International market definition and entry assessment
Taking the first step into international markets is daunting and frustrating.
Who to talk to? How will we get paid? How big is the opportunity? What is the best commercial structure? GIA has spent one hundred man years answering just these kinds of questions.

• Internet advertising & product marketing strategies
If you are a consumer or business-to-business company looking to develop new international markets for your products and services you have come to the right place. GIA principals have created Internet media strategies for firms around the world.

• Sales/Business Development
Revenue. Revenue. Revenue. We get it. We know the pressures you are under. We are not consultants who will charge you to tell you what you already know and not grow the top line. We are deal junkies and we understand that sales, licensing, and distribution contracts drive your business and give it scale. This is the GIA focus.

• Technology licensing
At the heart of any effective global Internet expansion is the ability to license intellectual property. Over the last 6 years GIA principals have licensed dozens of Internet technologies around the world.

• Start up guidance
All members of the GIA team have deep and broad start-up experience. We are comfortable with the risks and challenges of small companies looking to bring a good idea into the wider world.

• Joint venture negotiations
GIA principals have successfully negotiated equity joint ventures with some of the largest media and telco players in Japan, Asia, Europe, and Canada. We understand how to create value that is greater than the sum of the parts.

• M&A
Through our ears-to-the-ground global network GIA can find the companies that you want to buy for your expansion strategy. GIA finds these firms years before the rest of the world and before valuations make deals expensive.

• Executive recruitment
Success is built on great people and more than ever good management, governance, and relevant experience is demanded by the market. GIA finds and recruits key C-level and Board-level Internet talent anywhere in the world.

• Brand building
Will your brand sell well in other parts of the world? Are all the assumptions you make about your brand efficacy and identity apply in foreign markets? GIA principals bring the deepest pool of international Internet multi-brand building experience in the industry to bear on your brand-building challenges overseas.

• Legal
GIA counsel understands the intricacies of international Internet legal issues, including technology licensing, joint ventures, employment law, tax, and governance issues.

• Localization/Web site design
Speaking to an international market in its own language and cultural flavor is essential to effective market entry. GIA principals have overseen the localization of more Internet sites in more countries than any other group in the history of the Internet. We know what to do and who to do it with.

• Capital formation, venture financing
GIA principals have completed over $250 million in equity, debt, and convertible financings over the last 6 years. We understand how to structure complex trans-border financing deals. Through its sister company Global Seed Capital LLC and other global venture capital, private equity, investment banking, and angel investor networks, GIA has the ability to help finance strong Internet ideas. For more information, please see: www.globalseedcapital.com.