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Startup Slide Deck: What to Include for your VC Presentation

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by Eric | Jan 12, 2011, 9:16am EST

The other day I had the opportunity to watch a full hour long presentation by Mark Suster on how to communicate and present to a VC. His presentation was excellent, packed with lots of good info regarding everything from, “how to dress” all the way down to “how to answer questions.” BTW — How did [...]

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Startup Funding: What Exactly Not to Say

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by Eric | Sep 2, 2010, 7:00am EST

Funding a startup is tough business.  I have written in the past lots of articles on what to say as well as what to include. Additionally, I wrote a piece back in Feburary entitled: “Startup Business Plan — How an Investor will Evaluate “Your” plan.” Today, I’d like to include an article penned by Cynthia [...]

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Are Business Plans a Waste of Time?

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by Eric | Mar 26, 2010, 10:50am EST

Business plan production seems to always create more questions than one could possibly answer.  The first of those questions should involve the very decision to create one.  Rosalind Resnick weighs in on the issue, and as much as I’d like to say I disagree with her findings, I do not.  I feel it far more [...]

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Example Business Plan I’ve Used To Raise Angel Investment (Downloadable Doc)

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by Cameron | Mar 1, 2010, 7:52am EST

The week before last I published a post entitled Business Plan Outline I’ve Used To Raise Angel Investment that provided a detailed walk-through of an business plan outline I’ve developed/used to successfully raise angel investment. I wanted to follow up on that post by making an actual business plan available for you to download/revise/use that [...]

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Startup Business Plan — How an Investor will Evaluate “Your” Plan

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by Eric | Feb 24, 2010, 10:56pm EST

You worked hard to create a business plan and now you’re ready to present.  Remember that great ideas are common; much rarer are businesses with the people and products to enter and dominate a market.  Knowing that only 1% to 2% of business plans are funded, I’d like to provide a checklist that you could [...]

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What Should I Build and For Whom?

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by Eric | Feb 18, 2010, 8:53am EST

We have spent a good amount of time discussing how to vet the the big idea, but we have spent precious little effort describing how to actually build a framework around testing it in actual use.  I’ve heard  Google often say, “Release early and iterate,” and while I agree, maybe if they had used the [...]

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Business Plan Outline I’ve Used To Raise Angel Investment

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by Cameron | Feb 13, 2010, 12:56pm EST

Ah the business plan. Many entrepreneurs and startups slave over these documents, pouring countless hours into building and revising them. Why? For a number of different reasons, most of which don’t produce any real value once the document has been completed. As previously discussed, I believe there is really only one reason to write a [...]

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