Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 9, 2021
Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself. You need it for communicating to your team, finding strategic partners, or soliciting investor funding from friends and family, angel investors, VCs, and crowd funding. Pitch your company, not your product.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 25, 2023
To keep you out of this statistic, I recommend the following steps to all aspiring business owners as they step into this new and exciting world of managing your own business: Solidify your funding plan before you start spending. The remainder use outside funding, including crowdfunding, friends and family, banks, and investors.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2019
The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 26, 2022
Ask Eric Migicovsky, founder of Pebble , who raised over $10 million on the Kickstarter crowd-funding platform for his relatively low-tech wristwatch with programmed clock faces. Kickstarter may take a bit of the credit for this, but they admit the majority of projects without media attention don’t even approach their funding goals.
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 18, 2014
People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story last year “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article a while back, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself.
InfoChachkie
JUNE 3, 2013
Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. Saying, ''Hey, we want to pay you to write a book.’
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 15, 2015
People cite sources like this BusinessWeek story a while back “ Real Entrepreneurs Don’t Write Business Plans ,” or even my own article on this subject, “ 10 Reasons Not To Write A Business Plan First.” Disciplining yourself to write down the plan is actually the best way to make sure you actually understand it yourself.
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