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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. investors.”

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Compensating a consultant at start-up phase

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Professors Spot Future Entrepreneurs

Campus Entrepreneurship

Many business schools have entrepreneurial programs geared to those students, but sometimes a student who makes a mark might get personal attention from the professor outside of school. The day after the students graduated he sat down with them and helped them develop a business plan that evolved into Bizrate and Shopzilla.

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The REAL Story Behind Growthink

Growthink Blog

A lot of folks think of me as the business plan guy. And if I'm the business plan guy, when I started my company Growthink, you would think I would have spent a lot of time writing my business plan. You would think I would have developed a comprehensive marketing plan. And use that to get new clients.

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How to Start a Startup

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Another sign of how little the initial idea is worth is the numberof startups that change their plan en route. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Thats nonsense. Well, it doesnt.

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