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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans take too much time, are inaccurate, and rarely add value. The size of the document should be based on your style, but 10-20 pages or slides are usually more than adequate to outline even a complex business.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Thus, I’m more impressed with entrepreneurs who ask me to review their implementation plan, rather than listen again to their idea. I suggest you use social media, blogging, crowdfunding, or documented research to quantify a real demand from people who can afford it, and don’t have a better alternative already out there.
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InfoChachkie
MARCH 9, 2016
Entrepreneurs see the world like a cash booth from a 1950’s game show. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you. The best advice in Guy Kawasaki’s The Art Of The Start is on page 9, where he states, “Get Going.” From Small to Tall .
InfoChachkie
MARCH 7, 2016
Entrepreneurs see the world like a cash booth from a 1950’s game show. Once you begin seeing the world with the eyes of an entrepreneur, you realize that money-making opportunities are all around you. The best advice in Guy Kawasaki’s The Art Of The Start is on page 9, where he states, “Get Going.” Nostalgic Graduation Poster.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
As a startup mentor and investor, I am approached regularly by aspiring entrepreneurs who assert that business plans are a waste of time. They cite sources like the BusinessWeek story, “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ” and this Forbes article. You need an investor, and want a document to mass-mail to everyone.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. This is astounding and myopic in my view.
InfoChachkie
JULY 14, 2011
This is especially true for companies with expensive and complex products or services that are more consultative in nature, like insurance, financial services, home services, education and travel, etc. Do you have any words of caution or advice for entrepreneurs who attempt to “Get Their Band Back Together”? “In Be prepared to iterate.
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