Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I first met Jeff about 8 years ago when he was finishing his first year at the Stanford GSB and was beginning to raise money for a business plan he developed for a secondary market ticket exchange.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

MAY 29, 2008

An entrepreneur will pitch their business plan to what they think is a group of angel investors and will get a number of follow-up calls afterwards, but they are pitches for services not investment interest. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. I think this sentiment has given angel groups a bad name.

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Professor VC

MAY 30, 2009

We held our annual business plan competition at San Jose State this month and first prize was $10,000. Ryan was actually working on another business plan for my class when he came to discuss this concept with me a few weeks before the business plan competition. Saturday, May 30, 2009.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My colleague, Anu Basu , Director of the Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship at San Jose State , recently completed a paper on this topic, "Does Experience Matter? I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Now that iControl has raised over $100M, this got me thinking back to our original business plan. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

As I am quoted in the article, it is easy to pick holes in a business plan. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. No companys future ever matches their projections and it is the assumptions and how the entrepreneur understands the market and sees the opportunity evolving that we care about.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

Evaluate Business and Financing Needs - We initially went out seeking $10 million in financing, but listened to the prospective investors and watched the market. Mid-way through the process, we took another cut at our business plan and built a model where $5 million would be sufficient to get us beyond breakeven.

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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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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

If I could have coffee with you sometime and talk either in San Jose or Palo Alto that would be great. I'd be happy to send you our business plan, exec summary, and ppt. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. And I can show you our working demo of our prototype.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. I say I’m going to help you with your business, but the first thing I need you to do is fill out this part of the business plan, and have it done within two weeks and then call me or email me when it’s ready. That ink smell.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 18, 2017

With a lot of uncertainty regarding immigration policy in the days ahead, we are really excited to be launching a Global Entrepreneur in Residence program at San Jose State, where immigrant entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to build their companies on campus. San Jose State is the first in California.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I have written countless products for startups including creating the internet kiosks at the San Jose airport you may have seen. Startups need to be nimble, because your business plan will never completely be what you set out to do. This means the first order of business is to get it to work.

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