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Business Plan

Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Company Description 5 Financials 13 Management 15 Investment Highlights 16

Executive Summary
Mobile Cord provides enterprises with a software platform for unified mobile delivery of email, voice mail and messaging. Our software enables the enterprise to deliver an employees most important communication channels on any Palm, Windows CE, or RIM device. Mobile Cords value proposition is in the increased productivity of an enterprises employees and the increased manageability of multiple devices and the communication channels connected to these mobile devices. Mobile Cords flagship product Mobile Cord 1.0 helps enterprise IT departments address the desire of mobile employees to have a unified view of all their communication channels such as email, voice mail and instant messaging, while allowing the IT department to manage multiple types of devices interfacing with multiple software packages and communication channels. The growth in mobile devices and the increase in the amount of information flowing through an enterprises communication channels such as email and instant messaging presents an opportunity for Mobile Cords software. According to International Data Corporation (IDC), the number of worldwide handheld shipments is expected to increase from 8.1 million in 2000 to 18.9 million in 2003. In addition, IDC estimates that the number of email messages sent annually will increase from 2.6 billion in 2000 to 6.3 billion in 2003.MobileCords strength is in its strong R&D team, which has built a product in Mobile Cord 1.0, which is already in production. We plan on offering our product to a variety of industry verticals and have already implemented our solution in the Consulting, Financial, Manufacturing and Technology equipment sectors. Mobile Cord offers its product through a direct sales force. We are also beginning to build partnerships with IT Services and wireless service providers. In the first quarter of 2002, we are releasing Mobile Cord 2.0, which supports new convergent devices telephony and PDA capabilities such as Short Message Service (SMS) and the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP).We are continuing to execute on our business model with continued revenue growth and low operating expenses. Most of our revenue is derived from license and implementation fees that are recognized after our software has been implemented. In addition to our license and service revenue, we charge a monthly subscription fee on ape user basis that gives us visibility into future quarters. Assuming a capital raise is completed early next year, Mobile Cord could expand its sales and marketing to help revenue grow at a rapid pace. As of December 31, 2001 Mobile Cord had $700,000 in cash with operating and capital lease obligations over the next three years of $450,000.MobileCord, Inc. has no debt and has not drawn down on any credit lines.

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