If you suffer from anaphylaxis, you can help prevent a reaction from occurring by avoiding the allergenic substance. However, avoidance is not enough. You cannot predict the movement of a flying insect, or always know the ingredients of your food. Surprises happen and sometimes you cannot avoid the harmful allergen. In this case you need to be prepared to treat the condition with epinephrine as soon as it arises.
Medi-Life is seeking an investment of $2.7 million to enable the launch of this new venture and to fulfill its mission: to make self-care simple through innovations. The investment would yield in an ownership of approximately 20% with cash on cash return of 9 to 1. The net present value of this venture is between $21 million and $26 million
(see Appendix 8). The comparable EBITDA multiple valuations for the firm lead to a valuation of $16 million (see Appendix 8). The breakeven point occurs within the first year of production in Year 3 (2008) at 386,040 units recovering all the losses of the previous years.