Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 27, 2011

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. Polish the overall look and feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2010

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. Polish the overall look and feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away. Every good business plan needs an early section which sizes the total market opportunity, and then breaks down that total into the most relevant segments for your focus.

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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

MARCH 19, 2017

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don't confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. Polish the overall look and feel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2014

They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors. Every good business plan needs an early section that sizes the total market opportunity, and then breaks down that total into the most relevant segments for your focus. Peruse company reports from your business domain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2013

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 2, 2013

For my work, I am constantly working on new features for our business planning application as well as new layouts for our web sites. While sketching on paper is great, I prefer working in a wireframing app to sketch out my ideas. While Balsamiq isn’t free, it helps get my ideas on virtual paper quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2016

They don’t realize that business projections with no third-party validation have no credibility with investors, and smart potential investors will walk away. Every good business plan needs an early section which sizes the total market opportunity, and then breaks down that total into the most relevant segments for your focus.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

The backbone for my contribution to our effort is the best practices work “for practitioners by practitioners” that I have developed in the area of venture capital through the multiple articles and three white papers that I’ve written. The book has three parts and a total of 12 chapters.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

How successful would small business owners in the U.S. Here at Palo Alto Software, we are always interested in helping people succeed in business. Business owners are optimistic, and according to our poll, they’re planning to create jobs. say they are, if you asked them? The news was promising.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2018

Follow the right people, buy their books and ask them questions to get some clarity on your idea and business plan. Whitepapers are the crypto equivalents of business plans. Write a whitepaper. Bitcoin’s whitepaper started the conversation and helped the world’s first cryptocurrency get off the ground. Gather a team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The most successful startups work innovative responses to copy cats into their plans. They build response and recovery into their business plan. The business does not need people; it needs specialists, skills, and smarts. Don’t start unless you’ll survive imitation.” Hire performance.

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Gust

MARCH 9, 2014

It’s not uncommon for me to see a startup business plan “mission” to be the “premier brand” for their product, yet their marketing budget in the financials is trivial. This combination will almost certainly get your plan tossed by potential investors, who understand all too well the need and cost for marketing in today’s environment.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2014

By producing helpful content that inspires, informs and engages, we’re able to “demonstrate expertise by the content (we) produce, the ideas (we) showcase, the stories (we) share, and the people (we) attract” This in turn reduces the need to advertise to attract people to your business. Planning & Discovering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Technical (documentation, manuals, white papers). Need to develop an easy to read product manual or compelling white paper? Business Plans. Are you a technical rockstar but need help with a business plan for a cool new startup? Tap into our community of writers. Presentations. Books and eBooks.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

A great white paper by AGC Partners sheds modern light on this challenge, specifically how technology innovations are “incentivizing and enabling individuals to monetize their skills, time, and possessions like never before.” Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

First, through featuring these insights across the company's various marketing platforms - in its marketing and sales collateral, its white papers and case studies, in its email newsletter, and potentially in the its tag line and logo.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

In the event your site has been a little low on the visitor traffic end, this is a great way to spread the word about your company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I actually had a client who … they had terrible sales and marketing collaboration and the head of marketing said that it could take two weeks for sales to respond to an actual inquiry, not just someone downloading a white paper but someone contacting the company and saying, “Hey, we want to talk about your product, possibly buying it.”

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

Again, on our call I talked about the company I helped with their business plan template marketing. The “finished story” here wasn’t the obvious – a finished business plan. It was having raised money successfully with the polished and professional business plan. It was farther removed than that.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

After poring through stacks of reports, white papers and position papers, I’ve come to a couple of conclusions. Filed under: Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan , Business Model versus Business Plan , Teaching , Technology , Venture Capital. 1) They sure killed a ton of trees.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

From there, don’t hesitate to post blogs and articles, links to studies and white papers, etc., You can specifically follow those closest to your line of work, network with them, and see how they’re going about their specific tasks, hopefully providing you with some answers you may not have already had.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

and I wrote a white paper in Europe as well. DK: Within every business we have, every one of them can come up with new concepts that they want to sponsor. So we’re leading in on that. We’re having those conversations in the U.S., This is how we developed] everything that was originally part of what became Uber Eats.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

The thought that kept running through my mind as I read them was: “This information would be helpful if I needed to generate a huge business plan to impress a business-school professor.&# 27 Business Doctor on 08.23.10 Or Proctor and Gamble. Or Panasonic. on a five-page document.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Business software is different and shouldn’t be treated in the same way as B2C. lincolnmurphy is probably the expert on Freemium in SaaS and he wrote a brilliant white paper on the subject- you should check it out! at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. Justin #14 Eugene Mandel on 08.18.10

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Before I discuss this in more detail, I should fully answer your question: the main reason why general partners, particularly in venture capital, should legitimately limit the amount of information they disclose to their investors about their private investments is (1) competitive considerations, particularly for disruptive emerging technologies where (..)

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Our chosen problem was logic models , which are the non-profit equivalent of business plans. Copyright 2008-2012, Business Case Pro. Word sting" and "Lean White Paper" are trademarks of Business Case Pro LLC. But they will, unless you learn these unlean lessons. TAGS: Lean Startup , Fat startup.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Blog posts, white papers, case studies, and webinars are great vehicles for establishing your credibility and expertise. For example, a search for the term “LivePlan” reveals that search volume for our business planning software and business management dashboard has more than tripled in the last three years.

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