Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, missing crucial deadlines for finishing the business plan, or drawing hockey stick profit projections can repel potential investors. To help students and startups, I have compiled a list of reasons business plans are rejected or given a low grade. Of course, there are obvious reasons that business plans fail.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Hockey stick” shaped growth projections. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2007. A priority list with three to four items is focus. A priority list with 20 items is certainly not strategic, and rarely if ever effective. The more items on the list, the less the importance of each. It was revised in 2018.

Business Plan 128

Business Plan Hockey Stick Lean Dilution 128

Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

The objections range from "its hard", "nobody believes them" to "all hockey sticks look alike". To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007.

Silicon Valley 35

Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

Occam's Razor

MAY 31, 2016

Then as I grew busy after the first book, Web Analytics: An Hour A Day was published, June 2007, I started writing once a week to keep the quality high. Selling it recently to Simplilearn was a thrill, we are all so excited for the hockey stick growth that we expect MM to have now. Oct 2009, I started writing every other week.

Analytics 60

Analytics Hockey Stick Web Hungary 60