Business Plan Related Topics 
SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) it’s about measuring online influence and I’m big on metrics as a key element of business planning; 2.) At best I think business plan competitions are a waste of time.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 19, 2012
Business Concept The key first part of the conversation with a developer is having a good capture of the business more broadly. The business canvas model is a good short list. You might also have a business plan, marketing plan, financials, competitor analysis or other kinds of background document.
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SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development? billion dollar mistake.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 11, 2010
Tim Berry has a great post on Why I Hate Those Huge Market Numbers tells us that he doesn’t like to see business plans with multi-billion market numbers used as the basis for projections. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 9, 2009
Yes, a lot of these questions are partially answered in a business plan / presentation deck / marketing plan. This discussion always is at a pretty high level in initial conversations and then drills down from there. A lot of the product discussion feeds off the answers to this conversation.
SoCal CTO
DECEMBER 1, 2007
Then, I Review existing materials Business Plan Marketing Plan Marketing Materials Product Plan / Roadmap Current and Projected Financials Business Pipeline Team Member Bios / Resumes Current Metrics Roadmap Normally there are crude documents for each of these areas that can be quickly read / scanned.
SoCal CTO
MARCH 9, 2010
, Chase Norlin talks about the normal reasons that Founders / CEOs form advisor boards for early stage companies: Recognized industry thought leaders add immediate validation and credibility to the venture at a stage when there is typically none; Advisors can open doors, make introductions, and assist with strategy and business planning; Advisors add (..)
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