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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Gust

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Manage human resources.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. The most successful of these businesses will still need venture capital to scale their businesses. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.

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Don’t Let Investors Conclude Your Startup Is A Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Manage human resources.

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8 Key Processes Distinguish a Business From a Hobby

Startup Professionals Musings

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Manage human resources.

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‘Out of Control’ Startups Fail on 8 Key Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Manage human resources.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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Eight Business Processes Every Startup Must Have

Startup Professionals Musings

Write down the key elements of your business plan very early, and keep it current as things evolve. This will include the first version of many critical processes that can be split out later, including market opportunity, requirements, product definition, business model, sales process, and organization. Manage human resources.

Startup 239