Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2021

Uncertainty was a constant, sales and customer interest were wildly volatile and for many businesses, it became less about planning for the rest of the year and more about surviving the next few months. . My company, Circle 5 Books , which focuses on web and marketing copy, did not take much of an active stance on the pandemic.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

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. They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2015

Here’s how I sort through these different terms, in the context of angel investment, business planning, and business plan competitions. The business pitch. When I say pitch or business pitch I mean the short presentation startup founders make for angel investors or venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2012

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

Business Plan 244

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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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 26, 2012

An "elevator pitch" is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

In my view, the very fact that they feel that the technical development of a web startup is only worth a couple percent speaks volumes. Refine your elevator pitch. These “startups” are almost always mostly-non-technical founders offering 1-2% premoney for a “lead developer” position. That’s a pretty common experience.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Note that the tips refer mainly to web ventures. 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. Business Plan. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Gust

OCTOBER 11, 2011

An “ elevator pitch ” is a concise, well-practiced description of your startup and your plan, delivered with conviction and enthusiasm, that your mother should be able to understand in the time it would take to ride up an elevator. A good elevator pitch is not just for an elevator discussion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

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. They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Every entrepreneur should work first on his elevator pitch. The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. A different message everywhere is no message.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

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. They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Modern investors love to first read a two-page summary of your business plan, formatted like a glossy marketing collateral sheet, with text well laid out in columns and sidebars, and a couple of relevant graphics. You may have already found several articles, web pages, or books about writing the perfect executive summary.

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Elevator Pitch Viral Lead Generation Business Plan 138

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As you’re getting started and working on your business plan , you’ll need to look into and understand some of the specific requirements in your area: Obtaining business licenses and permits. Things you need to include in your business plan to get a bank loan. Getting a tax ID and understanding your tax obligations.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Day 5: Start ‘business planning’ not the ‘business plan’. Coming from someone who works for a company that makes business planning software , that may sound odd. The truth is, you’re going to do the ‘official plan’ a bit later, in week 2 when it comes time to sort out where your funding is coming from.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Even if your idea gets in the wrong hands, they will probably just get the high level “elevator pitch” which isn’t worth much anyways. bruce – i’m not saying you should publish your idea on the web (which is what my describing them on my site would amount to). ” chris. link] Bruce Colwin.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Here’s a 10 step complete guide for starting a consulting business from scratch. Fill in the business blanks. Build a web presence. Create a sales plan. Once you define your brand, you can begin to think about the vitally important details of actually starting and running a consulting business.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

60s elevator pitch). How will the business make money (what are the unit economics)? Many failing startups currently have shaky business plans, poor user interfaces and a lack of understanding that a jack of all trades (Model, View, Controller or, classically, db, web, program) may well be a master of none.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Every year, I spend a lot of time reading and judging business plans for business plan competitions. I have read some great plans and some not-so-great plans, but that is how it always turns out in any business plan competition. The idea of an “elevator pitch” is critical here.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2016

Writing a business plan can seem intimidating. You’re committing your great idea to paper and fleshing out the details of how you’re actually going to start and grow your business. For over 15 years, I’ve been writing business plans, reading plans for major business plan competitions, and raising money for startups.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

BlueHost : Simple and affordable hosting that’s ideal for anything from WordPress to full-fledged web apps. Elevator pitches and pitch decks. With Google Surveys, you can target users from around the web and get instant feedback on your business idea. Bluehost is an easy place to get online on a budget.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Right now, my business is just myself and a part-time employee who does support, testing, and product usability design. I intend to rewrite my internal 50-page business plan into an investors proposal. Refine your elevator pitch. where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? You simply need to network.

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www.quicksprout.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They are always refining the elevator pitch and searching for soundbites that resonate, trying to be more efficient at generating the hype that’s necessary. When I wrote my business plan, I made sure not to lie (embellish) to myself, partners and potential investors.

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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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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

He said that you need a reliable business plan, six months of cash on hand, and cheap labor. If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0 Eli abhay, Aaron Patzer said the most on this topic.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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