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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. In all of these new product and cost-focused new trends, a big problem has emerged that all of these movements have not addressed.

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What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?

Both Sides of the Table

There’s a line of thinking in Silicon Valley that you should build product businesses rather than services businesses. This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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10 Sure Ways to Get Your Plan Trashed by Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

Many VC firms and investment banks receive as many as ten plans per day, so it’s hard to get them salivating. An Executive Summary is a one page elevator pitch of the whole plan (may be separate from the plan), which gives an investor a net perspective on the key business parameters. The base plan should be in the 20-page range.

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Ten Top Investor Turnoffs Around Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

Many VC firms and investment banks receive as many as ten plans per day, so it’s hard to get them salivating. An Executive Summary is a one page elevator pitch of the whole plan (may be separate from the plan), which gives an investor a net perspective on the key business parameters. The base plan should be in the 20-page range.

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Off To SXSW, Our Schedule, And A Special Thanks

Tech Zulu Event

AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. You can quickly embed Echo on WordPress, Blogger, or any website and turn your static pages into a real-time stream of diggs, tweets, comments, ratings and more. Its like a match made in heaven.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Does the world really need more servers in more datacenters gobbling up more power to send more tweets and Facebook pages around the world? That led us to venture capital as opposed to trying to bootstrap ourselves. But throughout the transition I had my safety net. 10) Thorsten, why does the world need RightScale? . “Oh,

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TechZulu Partners with meebo!

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Discover - Discover stuff (maps, deals, videos, etc) that help make your days more productive. AudioMicro and TechZulu have partnered up to bring you some of the best Royalty free music and sound effects the net has to offer. Share - Easily share it all with the people that matter most so everyone is in the loop! .

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