Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

The market and venture capitalists are looking for business, but with a continuing focus on proven business models. Here are some key action items that may give your business some visibility: Start with an investment-grade business plan. Practice every step, including the elevator pitch to get the first meeting.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

Here are some key action items that will give you some priority: Create an investment-grade business plan. This means build a plan that hits all the hot buttons; problem/solution, executive team, competition, business model, reasonable financial projections, and what’s in it for the investor. Line up a winning team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Mass mailing your business plan to every VC in the book won’t get you any credibility or traction. Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty. Get introduced via one of the social networks, or a professional organization, before you approach a VC with a business proposal.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Social networking. Social/Sharing. Elevator Pitches. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Mailing lists/groups. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Google Ads.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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