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7 New Venture Strategies Improve The Odds Of Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Every investor has his own list, usually based on his own very small sample, or simply his gut feeling. Here is my own net of those seven habits: Founder is ready, willing, and able to learn. Effective entrepreneurs are always open to learning, no matter what their prior experience.

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5 “What-Ifs” To Include In A Startup Financial Model

Startup Professionals Musings

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Every Entrepreneur Dreams of an Overnight Success

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Many entrepreneurs think they are running, but find themselves falling farther and farther behind a rapidly moving target. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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5 Startup Financial Questions Every Investor Will Ask

Startup Professionals Musings

The way to start is with a sample financial model, available from many sources on the Internet, such as over 200 downloadable free from the Corporate Finance Institute website. The manual calculations to translate market assumptions into costs, volumes, expenses and net return are massive.

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5 Ways To Engage The Right People In Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

In my work with new and aspiring entrepreneurs, I find that most struggle with putting together a written business plan, often pointing out that someone they know started a business without anything written down. Be sure to net out the opportunity and the solution in the first thirty seconds. Make it light, but factual.

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Why Your Startup is More Likely to Succeed if You’re Authentic and Passionate

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In my Twitter bio is says that I’m “ looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs ,” which almost sounds like I was just looking for a cliché soundbite to describe myself. Passion is also the featured heavily in nearly every presentation I give to entrepreneurs or on college campuses or in talks with MBA students.

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