Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. Pick an idea, any idea.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

At the time, most startups were from the internet’s dot com side of businesses, as the outlook was bullish then. Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment. Angel Networks. Crowdfunding Sites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners. Business networking is key. Pick an idea, any idea.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Anyway, they passed on that, if I remember correctly turning their nose up at venture capital. :-) Yet, when Nils had launched Cellity, they came back to us to pitch this idea (together with Mangrove who had already injected seed money) and we eventually ended up investing shortly thereafter. Emporis This one is a bit of an outlier.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people? Are traditional investors really that great when you can leverage your social networks for cash? He quit his job to fulfill his orders and imagined starting a great new business from the seed money.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. An old standby for a good reason—your local Small Business Development Center is an excellent resource for information on a variety of business-related topics. See Also Bplans Small Business Loan Finder. Operated by the U.S.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Your business plan is ready. You want to establish a relationship here to gain access to their network at a later date.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

The tale of companies who created businesses out of brand new ideas is a rare one. And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. You can watch this video for some great tips on leveraging micro-influencers for your business.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? I have an idea years ago, and now it has became a business plan, I shall share my plan instead of original idea right? I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2010

Cisco and leading venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson have announced their second annual global business plan competition for college and university students. The two firms will award $250,000 to the firm that wins this years DFJ and Cisco Global Business Plan Competition.

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