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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

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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. That’s a lean business plan.

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Start With an Initial Assessment

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One of my business school professors used to refer to this process as finding out, “Is there a there there?”. My favorite is the Lean Business Plan , a collection of bullet-point lists and tables that lay out strategy, tactics, milestones, and essential numbers. The Lean Business Plan. The one-page business plan.

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How Investors Make Better Decisions: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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

David Teten

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. When they fund you, they know that they have to believe that you can also go out and sell the product. Are you saving them time? Are you saving lives?