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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

InfoChachkie

In most cases, I provide some combination of the following advice: Brevity - Maximum length: two pages. Real World Executive Summary Template. Hopefully this straightforward format will help you avoid overly obtuse verbiage, while keeping your executive summary to two pages. Patents and Trademarks. Competition.

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Great Startups Can Hook an Investor in 60 Seconds

Startup Professionals Musings

The elevator pitch should be the first few paragraphs of your business plan, your executive summary, your investor presentation, and the first page of your web site. For example, “I just patented a new cell-phone technology that will double battery life for half the cost. Unlike [competition], we [differentiation].”

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

For the rest of us, we need a business plan, as well as a product plan. Some of you may be convinced that your product specification communicates the product message even better than a business plan, so why be redundant? Professional investors and even customers invest in people, rather than just a product.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls

Frank Addante

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. They are afraid of their competition finding out about the idea, a bigger company trying to steal it or some other entrepreneur doing it first.

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