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10 Tips For Crafting An Investment Grade Venture Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. For minimum content, see my original article “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable.” The one-page Oprah plan is a good executive summary, but it’s not enough to get the investment.

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Insights: The Cryptic VC's Guide to Saying No On Investments

socalTECH

For this morning's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature the contributions of our readers, we have an article from Wiliam Hsu , co-founder and managing partner of Mucker Capital (www.muckercapital.com). You can read the full article at The Cryptic VC's Guide to Saying "No" On Investments in our Insights and Opinions section.

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MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Monday, March 12, 2007 MyShape Article - Analyst Misses the Point The NY Times did a piece today on MyShape, a start-up in Pasadena - Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit. “They’re probably a little ahead of their time,&# she said. in Computer Science.

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Humana partners with Heal and invests $100 million in the company’s doctor-on-demand service

TechCrunch LA

We continue to see high levels of customer satisfaction and improved health outcomes when care is delivered in the home. Our goal is to make the healthcare experience easier, more personalized and caring for the people we serve—and is the hallmark of how Humana delivers human care.”.

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How Do I Feel About the Snap IPO Given I Didn’t Invest?

Both Sides of the Table

Every tech or major news journal in the country is preparing to write their Snap, Inc (creators of Snapchat, Spectacles, etc) stories and many of them seem to want a “How does it feel to have missed this investment story.” But local VCs don’t deserve to get beat up for not investing.

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What are the odds of your startup’s success?

Berkonomics

The Angel Capital Association recently published a study contributed to by several of my friends quoting that seventy percent of investments made by angel investors to date return less than the amount invested – upon a sale or closing of the business – the great majority of these outright losses as businesses die.

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Why I Doubled Down on YouTube Investments with MiTú

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early and tireless advocate for the growth of the Internet video ecosystem and as virtually every article I wrote made clear I believe the 800-pound-gorilla is YouTube and will remain so for the foreseeable future. We’ve had tremendous support from Robert Kyncl , Courtney Lischke, Malik Ducard and Alex Carloss and many others.

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