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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

Up and Running

Identify any technology needs you may have (and whether or not you’re equipped to meet them) such as: High-speed internet with a reliable connection. Not only is it necessary due to the coronavirus, but it could potentially give you a strategic long-term advantage against current competitors and help you avoid massive overhead.

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How to Write a Business Plan for a Cannabis Company

Up and Running

The global market for CBD oils is expanding due to their medical efficacy. A number of cannabis tech companies have also begun to take advantage of the opportunity in the marketplace. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Technology.

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A 5-Step Plan To Assessing Your Business’s Sellability

YoungUpstarts

You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. Another important metric is churn. Few buyers will get excited about a company currently operating at a loss.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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How to Write a Business Plan for an Outpatient Medical Practice

Up and Running

If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Your funding ask and exit strategy, if applicable. Executive summary. Your operations plan.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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M&A or IPO?

Reid Hoffman

This week, I’d like to turn to the question of how current market conditions affect the approach entrepreneurs should take towards their exit strategy. It could be a user base, a dataset, a unique technology, or some combination of the above factors. That focus on short-term financial metrics is shortsighted.

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