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10 Answers That Make Your Startup Plan Investable

Startup Professionals Musings

What are your specific marketing and sales plans? You need to identify pricing details, sales channels, strategic partners and a customized marketing plan consistent with your industry and target segment. Technically, this is your exit strategy, usually a merger and acquisition (M&A) or initial public stock offering (IPO).

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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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Keep It Under Your Hat: Valuation Caps and the $650 Million Sale of MySpace for $125 Million

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The TL;DR answer to the stock option question is that MySpace options were cashed out at modest value at the time of the FIM merger, coming on the heels of the spin-out of MySpace into a separate subsidiary by parent company Intermix Media, with an infusion of new capital from Redpoint Ventures. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Investors Expect Ten Essentials in a Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 1991-2000. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. Take a look at the chart below. (It

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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

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Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.

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Ten Tips for an Investment-Grade Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Convince investors that you have lined up sales channels, strategic partners, and a viable marketing strategy. Competing with IBM, Microsoft, and other large companies should never be minimized.