Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. With which other investors?
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. With which other investors?
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APRIL 13, 2011
It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. On the Startup Visa Program. Are Pitch Decks becoming obsolete? But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. investors.”
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 13, 2013
I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. So I did that kind of stuff. It was all technical.
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OCTOBER 15, 2016
On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 21, 2014
Have they done a business case on the expected benefits? Did they do a major training program? Have sales bonus plans based on more than just sales targets. Perhaps having renewal rates with a good bonus spiff, have a component of MBO tied to usage performance metrics or spiff certain milestones like business plans.
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