Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 283

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.).

China 324

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 324

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 290

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.).

China 216

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 216

Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 182

Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 182

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

People ask me if they really need ANY business plan, unless they are looking for an outside investor. In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Do describe your intellectual property and “secret sauce”.

Business Plan 186

Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model.

Angel Investor 260

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 260

Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Define some intellectual property. File a patent and trademarks to show real intellectual property. They must amplify your “elevator pitch” to investors, as well as key points from the business plan and the financial model.

Angel Investor 179

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

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Intellectual Property 55

Intellectual Property Los Angeles San Francisco New York 55

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. As of the beginning of 2017, ffVC spun out Totem into a separate business.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

You show this by giving completely generic arguments to one line sentences from his post. social network/web analysis/etc. Hint: these arent real businesses. The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. Shocking, I know.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2011

I’ve written about these before, but since I see them so often, I thought it might be worth reiterating: “Business plans are for dummies.” Some startups think business plans are only for investors. In reality, you should do a business plan primarily for yourself, as it forces you to think through all the elements.

Sweat Equity 246

Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Viral Social Network 246

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

We can see numbers published about Pandora, Evernote, and MailChimp showing this pattern. He has a great stats page that shows everything from monthly revenue to the breakdown of users by plan type. at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. Again, this is basic business planning/sketching. (I

Software Review 78

Software Review Software Revenue Cofounder 78

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds. Meanwhile, the VCs surveyed indicated that their firms are only doing a few deals every six months and go through one hundred business plans to close one deal. Matt Look for the most current statistics to show that Up Vals will gain about 4%.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62