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7 Scenarios Where A Business Plan Is Still An Asset

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

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7 Key Factors Obscure Your Customer Acquisition Costs

Startup Professionals Musings

As a business consultant and angel investor, I often ask for your own assessment of marketing ROI , or customer acquisition cost (CAC). While I realize that a high level of certainty in these numbers is an elusive goal, the value of doing the work, and benchmarking your business against competitors is well worth the effort.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

Both Sides of the Table

The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team. I can’t change who your board members are so let me offer some thoughts on how to make your interactions with your board more productive. Some boards are highly functional, many are not.

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A Perspective On When A Business Plan Adds Value

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required. On the other hand, your mother probably won’t read one.

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How Many Entrepreneurs Really Need a Business Plan?

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course there are scenarios where a written business plan is not critical, but I haven’t seen one yet where a well-written 15-page document, or at least a 10-slide pitch, is a negative. Hopefully you know your friends and family better than I do, so you decide when a business plan is required.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# If you were a newly minted, venture-backed consumer Internet company you had to have a deal with AOL to reach your customers. By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. is a good monthly investment? Follow PandoDaily: Search. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content.