Idea Napkin No. 1

1. Me:  I am a nonprofit leadership and management minor with over ten years experience in management and sales. While designing this idea rough calculations express that this idea is viable for myself part time with hiring of three of more part time employees.  Because much of the work can be done via email and online wholesale ordering the job can be done during down time, for the most part.  That makes this venture suitable for off hours times.
2. What I am offering to customers?  My proposed idea is to establish a nonprofit entity to offer computer science purchasing consultation to other nonprofit firms. The firm would research, and negotiate, wholesale hardware and software prices in relation to needs of hiring nonprofits.  
3. Who am I offering it to?  Nonprofit firms that may not have the resources (time, money, knowledge, etc.) to research the purchase of computer information hardware/software.   
4. Why do they care?  Unlike private firms the day to day operations of nonprofit entities is not necessarily financial growth.  Although financial growth is a concern for nonprofits, their primary goals are focused on the issues the nonprofit addresses.  Therefore, nonprofit information technology will often times fall obsolete due to lack of capital infrastructure investments.  This lack of infrastructure is not due to any financial mismanagement, it is simply the nature of the beast that nonprofits will often put a large amount of their resources towards those they serve.  When nonprofit technologies fall obsolete they fail to be able to compete, with private firms and other nonprofits, to their full potential.    
5. What are my core competencies?  As mentioned earlier my minor is nonprofit management and leadership which gives me a core understanding of this specific sector.  This minor has allowed me to work with many nonprofits across the country, thus, establishing a base network to begin marketing with.  I also have almost five years of sales experience in wholesale natural resource commodities. The natural resource part will be mostly irrelevant in regards to this firm, the wholesale sales experience gives me an insight into how wholesale acquisition operates.  

I feel as though all of these pieces fit together nicely.  Because most can be done remotely no brick and mortar site will be necessary.  The overhead will consist of human resource fees, specialized sales software, and possibly light marketing expenditures.  I do, however, feel as though the most complicated part will be to establish the purchasing relationships needed to secure wholesale pricing.