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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Exit strategy.

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Investors Expect Ten Essentials in a Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Exit strategy.

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These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable

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Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it assumes at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Exit strategy.

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Ten Tips for an Investment-Grade Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Many people seem to use the social network advertising model for revenue, but forget it requires at least 100M users and $50M investment. Marketing, sales, and partners. Describe your market penetration strategy, sales channels, pricing, and strategic partnerships. Exit strategy.

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How to Attract Talent to Your Start-up

www.inc.com

By Issie Lapowsky | Aug 6, 2010 Share ); Getty Related Articles The New Rules of Hiring Is It Legal To Use Social Network Data When Hiring? The referrals the company got, especially from vendors and external partners were, in Perraults words, "spot on," and the experiment was a success. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Entrepreneurs: Due Diligence on Investors is Smart

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Consider the person who finds a good-looking partner to take home from the bar at closing time, but then wakes up in the morning wondering “What did I just do?” Taking on an investor is like getting married – the relationship has to work at all levels. Check track record on the Internet and social networks.

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

David Teten

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.