Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Financial forecast and metrics. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Later you will want to come back and create a proper sales forecast, cash flow forecast, and expense budget. Circle back and create a more detailed forecast.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Financial forecast and metrics. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Financial forecast and metrics. See where your cashflow bottoms out.

Business Plan 186

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Hippoland

JANUARY 29, 2016

These are some things I wouldn’t include in an email deck include: How many people you are hiring Financial projections / forecasts These are hypothetical – the number of people you hire could change, and if an investor thinks you should hire 5 sales people instead of 4, you shouldn’t let that be what stops you from getting a meeting.

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Tim Keane

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. OVP Venture Partners) My own take on this is that a business plan with a bottom up forecast demonstrates an understanding of the potential market that investors love. 

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

I am here to talk about LivePlan and give you some big picture information on business planning, forecasting, how to really kick your business off in the best possible way. Budgeting and forecasting, it’s not rocket science. You can’t forecast. I don’t know how to forecast. Good morning.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

A sales forecast. It will also help you when it comes time to write your business plan, especially if you’re pitching an angel investor or a venture capital firm – they will want to see there’s a market for your idea, otherwise, it won’t scale as rapidly as they need it to in order to make a return on their investment.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « Power of Angel Investing in Milwaukee | Main.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. « How do you present your venture to an investor? When you get to the point in the discussion where projections are relevant, there is a drill-down method here used by virtually every investor.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

Your MVP’s success will be a key component of your investor pitch deck. Angel investors and VC funders are truly investing in your good idea, but your passion and commitment are important too. You can try to fake them, but don’t—remember that it’s an investor’s job to verify that they’re solid. Demonstrate your passion.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Email readers, continue here.] Metrics and management: What might be the first indication the company will not be able to achieve its goals and objectives? On the flip side of success, which companies or individuals are most likely to want to buy whatever is left of the company if it is unsuccessful?

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Some cities, such as Portland, Oregon also have what Patrick calls “beer angels”—private angel investors who understand the beer business and invest in select breweries and cideries. Metrics: Know your numbers. Friends and family are the most common backers, and many startups bootstrap.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Metrics availability. Angel vs VC? -

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