Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

Ideas 106

Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2012

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

Ideas 97

Ideas Summary Startup CalTech 97

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2011

Lumbard of CalTech. Draft a business plan summary. Rather than starting with a full business plan, I recommend that you start with an executive summary of a couple of pages, or an executive level presentation of maybe ten charts. Most investors will tell you that they rarely see a new idea that they haven’t heard before.

Ideas 104

Ideas Entrepreneur Summary Startup 104

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. There are more sales oriented tools like JigSaw that tech savvy people hate but sales savvy people love. At what value?

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291