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How to Turn Your Million Dollar Idea Into a Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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Mind the Gap Between a Good Idea and Good Business

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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Entrepreneurs Need Fewer Hot Ideas and More Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

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.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. My Summary on getting access will be to tell you what most people don’t want to hear. If you’re three s -hot kids from Stanford, Caltech or MIT you might be able to push valuation higher. But for most businesses it is.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

Both Sides of the Table

Summary notes, as always, provide below. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store. Overture (Goto.com).