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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

The options here include going public (IPO), merger/acquisition, liquidate, or no exit, just paying off investors. As a hardware designer, I’m sure you do the same thing as you document your product specifications and pass them on to other members of your team for implementation. Most investors don’t want long-term commitments.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

Examples of VC platform services include: recruiting, marketing, design support, inside sales reps, consulting, accounting services and so forth. Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. Partner Leverage.

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