Gust
JUNE 19, 2012
Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. Tim Berry , Founder, Palo Alto Software. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue.
Gust
JULY 15, 2012
For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive. The Advisory Board’s objectives and focus.
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Gust
APRIL 27, 2014
Software Development Process via Wikipedia. Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Develop your business plan.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 27, 2014
One excellent way to do this (with a good bit of help from the experts), is to create a draft business plan using LivePlan from Palo Alto Software. Gust is used by over 1,000 angel investment groups, accelerators, business plan competitions and support programs to manage their applications.
Gust
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
In most of the events that I’ve participated in, that the appearance of a business plan contest is to some extent illusion. It’s not just a one-time pitch or plan contest. They’ve heard multiple pitches, poured over business plans, talked to customers, and looked at the legal work.
Gust
AUGUST 12, 2012
Why is it that most of the business plans I see are really product plans? I define a product plan as a detailed description of your product or service, with a bit of business thrown in at the end. A business plan is a detailed description of your business, with a bit of product description thrown in near the front.
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