Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. And, I think but can’t prove, both were business failures. 10 Things I Look for When Reading a Business Plan. This seems like a good point to summarize here what I look for in a business plan. . It’s not a research plan, it’s a business plan.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I had a similar feeling recently when I spoke at an event and was asked some questions about business plans. You see, I have written hundreds of articles on business planning over the past decade, so I figured I had nothing knew left to write. How important is the business plan? REQUIRE a business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon''s initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2013

Organized by the National University of Singapore (NUS) Entrepreneurship Society and aimed at encouraging youth entrepreneurship, Start-Up@Singapore started in 1999 as a business plan but has now grown to be much bigger.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, as a potential investor, I regularly see business plans that lead with pages on the technology, and only abstractly relate to customer value and improving the total customer experience. Improve the whole customer experience, as well as the product.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

At Calxeda, Freund will lead strategic market planning, market requirements, positioning, launches and market development efforts to support Calxeda’s business plans. Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

Your “Business Plan” will touch on every aspect of the business, and financial projections will suggest how much in “seed” and “working” capital will be required to get your idea off the ground and make it thrive. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups. Tim is the originator of plan-as-you-go business planning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

VC’s don’t want to run your business but they do want a say in the major decisions you might make including executive hires, compensation, M&A, major expenditures, etc. I then covered how to access a VC including: Most VC’s have a “submit your business plan&# place on their website. Don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

But the word is out on Reuters that LinkedIn, Twitter, and maybe even Facebook are looking hard at going public this year, so all of a sudden the IPO option is back in business plans again as an exit strategy for startups. In 1999, there were 486 IPOs nationwide; just 10 years later, in 2009, there were only 63.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. The book has three parts and a total of 12 chapters.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

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. back to August 1999.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle. Looking back, that was a special moment.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP. How to Incorporate. Franchises.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. His first piece for ReadWriteWeb - Social Revolution: Crowdsourcing for Change - addressed the idea of using crowdsourcing techniques to collect ideas for a “Business Plan for U.S.A.”. Accelerators are also booming.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 18, 2010

What I found most interesting about this deal was that nearly ten years ago Growthink wrote a business plan for an online pawn shop. If you would like help developing a professional business plan for your company, Growthink has developed business plans for more than 2,000 clients (who have raised $1 billion since 1999).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Should you require a full-blown business plan and what to look for. Previously, he was the co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Arrowhawk Capital Partners, an investment company and the Vice President of Strategic Business Development and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Golden Pond Healthcare, Inc.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

With an out-of-this-world business plan. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2010

Most entrepreneurs "blast" their business plans to hundreds or thousands of VC firms. Growthink developed Click Forensic's business plan). It's the same system we use for Growthink clients (who have raised $1 billion since 1999). but they get no meetings, no term sheets. and no funding.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

Josh started Jupiter Communications which during the mid-90s was the go-to research firm for market growth numbers for every startup business plan.    As a VC, you couldn't believe them, but it didn't stop every entrepreneur from using the hockey stick projections in their business plans. 

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. The sock puppet’s most notable appearance was in an eyebrow-raising $1.2 million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. Even a sock puppet knows that.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

I’ve seen several cycles in the market since I first started venture investing in 1999, and I believe there has been no greater potential for wealth creation in the sector than there is now. If you doubt that, take a look at the following chart I spotted on Twitter today: I’m long term bullish on technology which is why I run a venture fund.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

Up and Running

MARCH 18, 2013

I answer these same exact same publishing questions every day like it’s 1999. I actually started a book-publishing company in my college dorm room in … 1999. The judges then asked me some questions about publishing. No problem. Get comfortable, why don’t you? Not joking. I’m an OG.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. Worse, the publisher had no plans to publish the novels as mass market paperbacks. Believing 100% in the potential of these two books, I recruited a great team of key individuals and put together a business plan. Thanks to Mike Samson, crowdSPRING. #3

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. Targets selected” figure indicates number of business plans received. [v] v] Number of business plans received. Create opportunities, instead of waiting for opportunities to appear. Also published in Forbes.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

One of my pharmacy contacts was looking at this business model in 1999, and asked for my input,” Thorkelson said. “It Because there’s more to life as an entrepreneur than you can get by focusing on one arena, Thorkelson expanded his business interests into real estate. You also have a lot of business interests.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

One thing I know is that the combined business turned out a lot better than Peter Thiel's original business plan for infrared beaming of electronic payments over Palm Pilots that I unfortunately passed on investing in 1999.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

. - 500 Hats , July 30, 2010 Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 Customer Development Checklist for My Web Startup – Part 1 - Ash Maurya , February 16, 2010 How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups (..)

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