Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

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. It’s all about making your business life easier, doing what works best, getting the best results by tracking what works and always improving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Others will work hard on a business plan, and then mail it indiscriminately to every potential investor they can find on the Internet. Attached is a copy of my full business plan for your review.” I don’t have a business plan, but the technology is disruptive.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. .” So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. With which other investors?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2012

After struggling to create your business plan for months, every entrepreneur likes to think that their document is inspirational and will reach someone who is smart enough to see the brilliance of the idea, intuitive enough to recognize their business acumen, and enthusiastic enough to offer the money required to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? Otherwise you’re a stock picker, which in this business isn’t a good thing. So I stand by my well-read Quora post of why I don’t attend demo days. It’s a Demo Day thing.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

will be presenting 16 new startups at its Demo Day on 21 August at Orpheum Theater. ” Find out more about Start Co’s Demo Day here. Events & Happenings accelerator program Demo Day incubation program Memphis Start Co startup' Memphis, Tennessee-based nonprofit venture development organization Start Co.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. Demo Days Versus Lesson Learned Presentations. Everything depends on a demo, presentation and speaking style.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 24, 2023

Services are trickier, but some early demos work well. There are many barriers that can hinder your progress, and these include the following: Getting too excited and trying to launch without a solid business plan. Don’t Forget the Business Plan Of course, you cannot hope to get anywhere without a business plan.

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Gust

JULY 18, 2012

Following the huge success of the Gust-DEMO scholarship earlier this year, Gust and DEMO have teamed up again to offer Gust start-ups a full scholarship opportunity for DEMO Fall 2012. The recipient of the Gust-DEMO Scholarship will have a chance to launch their product to some of the most innovative people in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Most VCs love demos. Demos help them learn more than they could from any document, especially about their interest in the product. We believe the demo, a prototype, or an alpha is far more important than a business plan or financial model for the very early-stage company.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “Here’s how smart I am, and isn’t this a great product, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the story of a team’s 10-week journey and hard-won learning and discovery. . – while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches. After Office 2.0

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

There was a time when anticipating your target demo was more or less guesswork. You would have to gather anecdotal information and just hope your business adjustments resonated with your clientele. Write a business plan. You can download a free Lean Plan template to help you get started.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

In reality, it is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of the business and the team. Some entrepreneurs do very little to prepare for due diligence, assuming all the talking has already been done, and the business plan and results to-date tell the right story. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 30, 2013

By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News Ten companies pitched perfectly at the inaugural Austin Techstars Demo Day before a packed house at the Austin Music Hall Tuesday afternoon. No one read from a script or even flubbed a line.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2019

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

When writing your business plan , consider that customer relationships begin the moment a consumer learns about your company. Each discussion should end with a clear next step with the potential customer, such as another call, a demo, or a training session. Build and define relationships. Show your value.

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SiliconHills

MAY 2, 2015

By LAURA LOREK Reporter with Silicon Hills News Cerebri perfected its pitch, built its network and solidified its business plan during Longhorn Startup, said Bri Connelly, its CEO. The original team behind Cerebri won the inaugural IBM Watson University Competition in January.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

True story : In the early days of Palo Alto Software we had a website demo of Business Plan Pro that gave people an experience related to the interface of the software, but wasn’t a full implementation. Of course we took the demo down, and quickly. It didn’t save the work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Maybe you'll even get a wobbly demo. It sounds simple: The average cost of acquiring a customer is $C (advertising, sales, support, doing demos) and the lifetime revenue you get from that customer is $R, so if C < R you have a business. Cue sound of cicadas buzzing. (Or

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SiliconHills

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

All of the companies spent the summer with the Austin Technology Incubator shaping their ideas, honing business plans, working with mentors and business partners and testing their marketplaces. “It It speaks to […] The post Nine Companies Pitched at ATI’s SEAL Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

By the end of the 20th century, case studies and business plans had reached an evolutionary dead-end for entrepreneurs. The Rise of Business Schools – Management as an Occupation. The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

Unlike traditional demo days or Shark Tanks which are, “here’s how smart I am, please give me money,” a Lessons Learned presentation tells the teams’ stories of a 10-week journey of hard-won learning and discovery. We just finished our 5th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. It Started with an Idea.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

I finally had a brainstorm, and started writing a business plan. We’ve put together a detailed, confidential business plan; a high-powered Advisory Board; and a pool of funders eager to get this launched with the right team. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. A nonprofit?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

For investors, an executive summary of your plan is appropriate. For customers, a sample, demo device, or at least a brochure will solidify the message and your readiness to deliver. I recommend that a good elevator pitch is not just for riding with someone in an elevator.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

I finally had a brainstorm, and started writing a business plan. We’ve put together a detailed, confidential business plan; a high-powered Advisory Board; and a pool of funders eager to get this launched with the right team. . We build a basic deck together and ideally a simple demo. A nonprofit?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

In a business plan, key questions are answered in an executive summary. The answers inform investors so they can understand what they’ll learn and decide whether to read the rest of the plan. Your playbook doesn’t have to be as formal as a business plan, but it’s worth approaching the introduction in a similar way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2017

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 25, 2014

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it. What does it take to get from that demo into your engineering group, to be delivered as a product into your existing sales channel?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. I'm sure their Summer Camp demo day will be the first time a lot of VCs have set foot in the thriving outer borough. Unfortunately, there wasn't much actual tech being built in 55 Broad.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2015

You could include a brief product demo that shows off your technology, or more details about your smart and efficient business model that you might not otherwise have had time for. If you start from the heart of your pitch—the one minute version—then each longer iteration allows you to provide more detail expanding from that point.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

They approach key potential investors way too early, trying to talk their way up the hill, with no supporting business plan, and before they have a support team around them. Don’t try to talk and demo your way up the hill. Keep your big guns, the business plan and financial model, in your holster but visible for backup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac. Something Profound Engineering gave us a demo of the prototype board and software and asked, “Do you guys think we can sell a few of these boards?” We must have made them play the demo twenty times. My first IPO at Convergent.

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