article thumbnail

9 Crucial Elements Of Every New Venture Funding Pitch

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, you can find these elements embodied in many of the business plan templates and tools out there, such as the Business Model Canvas. Quantify your value proposition for customers. Competitor resources include larger cash assets, trained staffs, an existing customers, and a known brand in the market.

Funding 132
article thumbnail

Look for your strategic buyer first.

Berkonomics

While you are busy building your high growth venture, you may have occasionally thought about which large companies might be the ultimate buyer of your company – a buyer that could optimize your idea, customer base, and team. Many large companies have a preferred template from which their deal teams rarely stray.

Template 120
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

A business plan is the outward facing definition of the business you hope to drive with your hardware solution, with a hardware overview in the intro to highlight customer value and competitiveness. Use non-fuzzy terms to quantify customer value. Provide specifics on the customer business model.

Product 169
article thumbnail

A Startup’s Net Profit Score Is More Important Than Its Net Promoter Score

InfoChachkie

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

.Net 182
article thumbnail

A Startup’s Net Profit Score Is More Important Than Its Net Promoter Score

InfoChachkie

Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are the darling of many Big Dumb Company (BDC) product marketing and customer support executives. Created by consultants to generate additional fees, such scores attempt to rate a company’s overall customer satisfaction. The higher your company’s NPS, allegedly the higher your customer satisfaction.

.Net 168
article thumbnail

Interview with Brad Stewart, Fair

socalTECH

There are lots of transaction costs which occur both on acquisition of customers and on returns, and those costs are real, and must be considered in how we price the products. My dream with this pilot with Honda is that it becomes a similar template for other OEMs. The other part, is car subscriptions are very expensive.

Startup 124
article thumbnail

Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like. Early-stage and first-time entrepreneurs often value advice in the full marketing mix including blogging, content marketing, positioning, branding and customer acquisition that a senior marketer has done for years.