Discovery Driven Growth - Tools
Hello there - in response to requests to access some of our electronic tools, I’m posting the instructions here while we wait to get them up on the Discovery Driven Growth web site.
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Instructions for Obtaining BareBones Real Options and Monte Carlo Tool from CameronAssociates.biz
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1. Visit the Cameron Associates Website.
2. At the bottom of the form on this web-page, be sure to tick “Tick here if you are a participant in a Cameron & Associates training program”.
This will ensure that you receive a trial version of the software with no additional payment.
3. At the top of the form, tick the following options:
- BareBones Real Optoins Tool
- Monte Carlo Tool
Choose a 45-day trial License Duration in all cases.
4. Fill in your remaining details on the form, and then
click the “Proceed to Price Page” button at the bottom
of the form. The price page should show a price of zero dollars.
If you see a price greater than zero dollars, press the
Back button in your browser, and ensure that you ticked
the checkbox entitled “Tick here if you are a
participant in a Cameron & Associates training program”
on the form, so that you obtain the software at no charge.
If you receive a “Security Certificate Error” warning after
clicking the “Proceed to Price Page” button at the bottom
of the form, please ignore the warning and choose the red option
“Continue to this website”
even if your web-browser warns “(not recommended)”
5. You will be emailed activation instructions within 2 minutes.
If you do not receive the emails from
cameronassociates.biz, check your spam filter.
6. Download the software from the download links provided
in the confirmation emails you receive. If you do not
receive the confirmation emails, you can find the software
here:
You can download the above files into *any* folder on your machine.
To extract the downloaded software:
- For Monte Carlo: simply unzip the Monte_Carlo.zip file, and the
Monte_Carlo.xls spreadsheet will be accessible in the folder
you unzipped to (usually you will find the Monte_Carlo.xls
spreadsheet under a subfolder called “/Monte Carlo”, under
the download folder you used).
- For BareBones Real Options: unzip the
BB_Real_Options.zip file.
Then double-click on BareBones Real Options Installer.msi which will install
the software. The software will be installed into:
“C:\Program Files\Cameron Associates\BareBones Real Options”
Look for the spreadsheet file file called “BareBones Real Options.xls”
in that folder.
7. After you have extract the downloaded files,
open the Excel spreadsheets.
If, for BareBones Real Options, you cannot find the Excel spreadsheets, look in
“C:\Program Files\Cameron Associates\BareBones Real Options”
If you receive an error relating to Macros not being enabled,
see the instructions for Macro activation in the TROUBLESHOOTING
section below. Similarly, if you click on buttons
in the spreadsheet and they do nothing, it is probably because
you do not have Macros enabled - again, see the instructions
under the TROUBLESHOOTING section below on how to enable Macros.
9. Be sure you are connected to the internet before you attempt this step.
Once you are sure you are connected to the internet,
press the “Renew Licence” button in the spreadsheet,
and feed in your username and password on the left
under “Automatic Renewal” on the left of the
“License Renewal/Activation” window that popped up.
Your username and password are the username and password
you chose when you registered on
cameronassociates.biz
To find the “Renew License” button:
- For BareBones Real Options, the “Renew License” button is a hyperlink titled “Activate/Renew”
at the top right of the spreadsheet, in cell F1.
- For Monte Carlo, if you are running Excel 2003,
the “Renew License” button is on the right of the
floating toolbar.
- For Monte Carlo, if you are running Excel 2007,
the “Renew License” button is on the “Add-Ins” tab,
at the very right of the “Add-Ins” ribbon.
If you believe are connected to the internet, but you
still obtain an error message when attempting to activate
using the easy “Automatic Renewal” section on the left of the
“License Renewal/Activation” window, then follow the
“MANUAL ACTIVATION” steps described under TROUBLESHOOTING below.
9. For more information on the installation process please
read the tutorial documents located in the folder where you
extracted the software. If you cannot find the folder
where the software was extracted, either check in
C:\Program Files\Cameron Associates\
or download and extract the software again.
10. If you wish to purchase paid 1-year licenses of the software,
priced at $250 per tool, per year, follow the instructions
above, but choose “1 year” license duration and do
*not* tick the checkbox entitled “Tick here if you are a
participant in a Cameron & Associates training program”.
Payments are accepted via PayPal using any major credit card.
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