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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

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Often, a business plan introduces a new technology that requires some explaining. On one hand, as a reader of business plans for investors, I see way too many business plans that ask a reader to wade neck-deep through technology to get to the business. It’s a business plan, not a term paper or thesis.

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How to use your business plan

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Bill Payne had a nice post on gust.com late last month titled Using your business plan , in which he lists the different forms or outputs people confuse with a business plan and sets each one into the proper use context. Do not hand investors your business plan when you first meet them.

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How to Land Funding From Angel Investors

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Finish your business plan. If you haven’t already written a business plan , start now. We recommend using a Lean Planning approach. You need a business plan for a few reasons: To help you estimate how much money you need. Use web search. Create your executive summary or one-page pitch.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

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We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. It’s all about making your business life easier, doing what works best, getting the best results by tracking what works and always improving.

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10 Preparation Steps to Win an Angel Investment

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are eliminated during due diligence. If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.

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10 Tips for Finding Venture Funding

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Don’t think for a minute that any serious investor would ever read a summary memo, or watch a pitch, much less read a business plan, when it looks like it’s being sent in bulk to multiple investors. That idea dates back to the 1980s when people imagined that VCs were looking at business plans coming in unsolicited.

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Top Ten Action Items For Angel Funding Success

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are eliminated during due diligence. If the founders are not experienced, find a couple of advisors from the business sector to fill the gap. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Prepare an investment-grade business plan.