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How and Where to Write About Technology in Your Business Plan

Up and Running

I’ll join in the due diligence for my angel group, test for myself, and develop my informed opinion. The detailed look at the technology comes during due diligence, not in the plan or during the pitch. For business owners, I recommend a lean business plan as a dashboard and GPS.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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New Lessons Learned from Berkeley & Stanford Lean LaunchPad Classes

Steve Blank

Our Stanford and Berkeley Lean LaunchPad classes are over for this year, and as usual we learned as much from teaching the teams as the teams did from us. Each year we learn how to move more of the Lean LaunchPad class logistics outside our classroom so teams have more time for in-class learning. Lean LaunchPad Teaching'

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No departments

Startup Lessons Learned

I was the junior guy on a project team; I was called in to do some technical due diligence for reasons that were obscure to me, because the team already had much more senior engineers assigned to it. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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How Much Funding Should You Raise?

Up and Running

Any investor will put their valuation on your business based on a number of factors, including looking at important metrics for your business, patents, or assets. Receiving more funding often means more due diligence and having to accept higher control provisions from investors. The primary issue is a technical one.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

Thus, one can say the concept of a “ lean startup ” existed in Asia far longer than in the Valley – it’s just that no one ever wrote a book about it. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics. Remember, it’s a two-way street – do your due diligence too.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. I personally use Salesforce.