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• River Incubator Program as a way to get started.The company noted that Elk River is a good place for it to set down roots because of its location on the way to northern Minnesota fishing and its proximity to the twin cities and the international airport in particular. Mr. Mark Wuollet is the designated manager for the North American operations. Mr.Wuollet is based in Golden Valley and is quite familiar with and strongly in favor of the Elk River location in general and the Elk River Incubator Program as the place to get started. Vilco intends to raise capital and should have a relatively easy pathway as fishing products tend to get funded in both bad economic and stock market cycles as well as during good ones. The company's founder/senior marketing manager joined Mr.Wuollet in a visit with Heidi Steinmetz and Dick Gongoll in order to familiarize them as community representatives with the technology that was demonstrated in a DVD on a computer. The website is currently only available in the Finnish language (see www.vilco.fi). Mr.Wuollet's telephone number is 763 544 1965. SeeBuddee, Inc.: Mrs. Jodi Kolstad Budde, Founder and President of SeeBuddee, Inc., is seeking capital to expand her business. She has a proprietary technology that enables one to read a large map easily in a palm sized optical unit that allows for multi perspective vision. Her first applications were for skiers to use on the mountain side in Utah during the Winter Olympics. Rather than unfolding and having a mountain ski map flap in the breeze or blow away, her product allowed the user to hold a'big map' in a flat convenient handheld optical viewer. She is presently pursuing Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR)federal funding for military • applications of this technology. Genesis has introduced her to Minnesota Wire&Cable of St. Paul; this company has entre to military and special operations purchasing departments of the U.S. armed forces.The technology could be deployed at the field soldier level and provide a convenient comprehensive orientation map for the solider in the field. She intends to utilize injection molders as contract manufacturers and has noted that the Elk River area has a good number of qualified companies in the area. Her main business would be design and develop new product applications leaving the manufacturing to third parties. After success in this field, she intends to go to animation companies such as Disney to work with them in the field of consumer entertainment products. Her website is: www.See.Buddee.com and her telephone number is 651 407 6020. She is presently located in her home in Hugo, Minnesota. SEO Precision, Inc.: Esther and Shawn Oehlke are the two founders of SEO Precision, Inc., of Crosby, North Dakota. The company has precision laser missile guidance systems components known as FSMs that can also be deployed for commercial lighting applications as well as other non military applications.The first non military application will be for farm implement lighting systems utilizing LEDs for the illumination mechanism in a novel configuration. Presently, the company is a qualified sub contractor for Boeing on classified military aerospace avionics assemblies. Shawn Oehlke worked in Albuquerque on projects at Sandia Labs and worked for about twenty years with Newport, a California based military aerospace contractor. 111 The SEO Precision needs to raise capital for its expansion plans and needs to be able to hire