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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

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. Establish technology as a differentiator, when it is.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. Each quarter you should review your model.

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Diverse Lead Firms

Austin Startup

645 Ventures 645 Ventures makes deeply-researched investments in institutional Seed to Series A rounds for exceptional companies who demonstrate stellar early results in the areas of market validation, product differentiation, team strength, and brand narrative.

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The Customer Development Manifesto: The Startup Death Spiral (part.

Steve Blank

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The new VP of Sales reviews the sales strategy and tactics that did not work and comes up with a new sales plan.

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Where are the opportunities for machine learning startups? [guest post]

VC Cafe

What might these technologies do? Ravn Systems automates the (repetitive, boring) review of documents in legal workloads; Bitproof’s Peter is an AI legal assistant that can request signatures, generate contracts and notarise documents; and Premonition.ai Well, to take the legal profession as an example.

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

This is going to be BIG.

You may decide that where you are now compared to where you'll be in three months isn't a good time, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that you're not a tech entrepreneur in the office of a venture capital firm. That's kind like when people meet in *those* sections of Craigslist tell you they've never done this before.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). link] Lean Startups Blog – rants and raves from the startup trenches. I agree completely.

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