Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2016
In my angel investor mode, I often find myself flipping to the “management” section of a business plan, even before I read the solution description and opportunity. It starts with having a vision and an ability to get the message across in your elevator pitch, in a written business plan and one-on-one with potential investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 26, 2020
As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. Description of the business entity you plan to form.
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Steve Blank
MARCH 8, 2011
We were positing that 20 years of teaching “how to write a business plan” might be obsolete. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.
SoCal CTO
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Refine your elevator pitch. Recruiting Startup Engineers Engineers are humans, we have bills to pay, families to take care of, friends that we want to spend time with, and on occasion indulge in the latest tech gadget. Here are a few perspectives on it: Building a sweat equity team You simply need to network.
VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
Also, make sure you practice your elevator pitch. If they invested in a competitor, there’s a chance that you’re business plan will end up on the competitor’s lap. You also don’t need a full fledged product to start doing pitching – sell your vision first. Business Plan.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 31, 2010
Have a game plan. When you are seeking angel investment or venture capital investment, you will need a strong business plan, but do you really need a business plan for your friends and family? Instead, you might consider a vision, strategy, and tactics plan. Have an exit strategy. His blog is [link].
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Your Executive Summary is your verbal elevator pitch. If you are an engineer, your vocabulary may include terms that are unfamiliar with the MBA investor. Thinking Aloud business plan executive summary Ralph Arnheim' But, crafting a good Exec Summary is very hard. Understand Your Audience.
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