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14 Entrepreneurs Share Their Views on Writing a Business Plan or Not

Hearpreneur

#5- Yes, to adapt to market changes Photo Credit: Sammi Jaeger It's helped our three Founders stay on the same page, project our roadmap of growth, and provide clarity on our goals, strategies, and financial projections, making it easier to communicate our vision to all of our stakeholders and clients. Thanks to Michael E.

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The 10 Questions I Didn’t Expect to Be Asked by Investors

Up and Running

I was expecting to be asked about my team, market segments, financial projections, go-to market strategy, exit strategy, etc. 3 : How do you track trends in your market? 7 : What will your market look like in five years as a result of using your product or service?

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[Interview] Ed Rempel, Certified Financial Planner, Founder Of Unconventional Wisdom

YoungUpstarts

One piece comes from experts who tout a correlation between the economy’s performance and what it spells for the stock market. Another revolves around the long-term returns of stock market – which are far more consistent than conventional wisdom might suggest. Most are focused on their business, but do not have a clear exit strategy.

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10 Answers That Make Your Startup Plan Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors are looking for a concise description of your product or service without technical jargon or fuzzy marketing terms with value quantified in customer terms. How big and growing is the total market and your target segment? They like billion-dollar markets with double-digit growth rates.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) car market. Who was he?

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Dragons, Bootstrapping and Women in Tech

Up and Running

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.