Download or read book How to Write a Business Plan Executive Summary and Raise Insane Amounts of Capital written by and published by ExecutivePlan. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Write a Great Business Plan written by William A. Sahlman and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are glossy five-color charts, bundles of meticulous-looking spreadsheets, and decades of month-by-month financial projections. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, often the more elaborately crafted a business plan, the more likely the venture is to flop. Why? Most plans waste too much ink on numbers and devote too little to information that really matters to investors. The result? Investors discount them. In How to Write a Great Business Plan, William A. Sahlman shows how to avoid this all-too-common mistake by ensuring that your plan assesses the factors critical to every new venture: The people—the individuals launching and leading the venture and outside parties providing key services or important resources The opportunity—what the business will sell and to whom, and whether the venture can grow and how fast The context—the regulatory environment, interest rates, demographic trends, and other forces shaping the venture's fate Risk and reward—what can go wrong and right, and how the entrepreneurial team will respond Timely in this age of innovation, How to Write a Great Business Plan helps you give your new venture the best possible chances for success.
Download or read book Summary Write Your Business Plan written by BusinessNews Publishing and published by Business Book Summaries. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of "Write Your Business Plan: Get Your Plan in Place and Your Business Off the Ground" by the staff of Entrepreneur Media, inc. This complete summary of the ideas from "Write Your Business Plan" by the staff of Entrepreneur Media, inc. explains just how important it is to have a solid business plan. It is the business plan that turns an initial idea into a sustainable business and a good plan can be the difference between success and failure. It is also essential to adapt your business plan frequently; it should evolve alongside the development of the business. Instead of writing a business plan and then leaving it to one side to become outdated and useless, this summary will help you to improve the plan as you learn what works and where your business is heading. This is a must-read for any budding entrepreneurs whether you are looking for advice on how to write a business plan or you want to adapt an existing one; there is always room for improvement! Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand key concepts • Increase your business knowledge To learn more, read "Write Your Business Plan" and discover how to create the perfect business plan and how to keep it that way.
Download or read book Scaling Teams written by Alexander Grosse and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading a fast-growing team is a uniquely challenging experience. Startups with a hot product often double or triple in size quickly—a recipe for chaos if company leaders aren’t prepared for the pitfalls of hyper-growth. If you’re leading a startup or a new team between 10 and 150 people, this guide provides a practical approach to managing your way through these challenges. Each section covers essential strategies and tactics for managing growth, starting with a single team and exploring typical scaling points as the team grows in size and complexity. The book also provides many examples and lessons learned, based on the authors’ experience and interviews with industry leaders. Learn how to make the most of: Hiring: Learn a scalable hiring process for growing your team People management: Use 1-on-1 mentorship, dispute resolution, and other techniques to ensure your team is happy and productive Organization: Motivate employees by applying five organizational design principles Culture: Build a culture that can evolve as you grow, while remaining connected to the team’s core values Communication: Ensure that important information—and only the important stuff—gets through
Download or read book Venture Capital Millions Kit written by Tyler G. Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how to raise venture capital for yourself or others. Gives steps for preparing an Executive Summary, business plan, etc. The kit presents several examples of completed Executive Summaries for the user to follow in preparing his/her summary to present to a venture capitalist. IWS will prepare--free of charge--an Executive Summary for the Kit buyer after the buyer supplies the needed data about the business. You can use the kit to earn large fees raising money for new or established firms.
Download or read book 101 Great Mail Order Businesses Revised 2nd Edition written by Tyler G. Hicks and published by Currency. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make a Mint by Mail Order! Sell computers, vitamins, clothing, or gourmet foods. Create and sell newsletters on almost any topic. Make and sell your favorite arts and crafts. Would you like to join the booming mail-order business? You can! Bestselling author Ty Hicks shows you how. You don’t need a lot of money, years of experience, or a college education—just a mailing address and the desire to deliver products and services quickly for the best value your customers can get. Ty Hicks explains in clear, easy steps how to start your mail-order business today, including: ·Getting started quickly and easily ·Creating an e-commerce Web site to promote and sell your products or services directly ·Using proven marketing and promotion strategies ·Carving niche markets with unusual products and services ·Expanding your business for maximum profitability ·And much, much more!
Download or read book The McGraw Hill Guide to Writing a High Impact Business Plan A Proven Blueprint for First Time Entrepreneurs written by James B. Arkebauer and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1994-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with features, this guide to writing business plans shows readers how to turn their entrepreneurial dream into a reality, by writing a business plan that will get them the financing and support they need to get a new business going. It includes a directory of new and little-known money sources, high-impact points - special tips and ideas, and a free disk offer, featuring sample business and financial spreadsheets.
Download or read book Raising Capital written by Keith Herndon and published by Innovations Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of a dozen interviews with experts in the business of raising capital. The book is intended to provide entrepreneurs with insight and advice about the process of raising capital. Darrell Glasco, Silicon Valley Venture Capital Manager: The issue isn't finding capital; it's finding a good company to put the capital in, he said. And serial entrepreneur Jim Stratigos, CEO of Jacket Micro Devices, tells entrepreneurs: . . . you have to ask yourself if you are ready to be an entrepreneur. Are you ready to devote the time it's going to take to do it? This means making your company the center point of your life for several years. Entrepreneurs reading the advice contained in this compilation of interviews will understand how funding professionals think and can use that insight to better position their businesses to attract capital investment.
Download or read book Raising Money written by Dave Berkus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you raise money for a small business? What is your business worth? Who are your best investors? What should you watch out for? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn't. He offers his insights for your business success based upon his many experiences. Reading this book, and others in the series, will make you a better visionary, manager, and leader! (Newly expanded second edition.)
Download or read book 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start and Succeed In for Under 1 000 written by Tyler G. Hicks and published by Currency. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turn Your Dream of Starting a Home-Based Business into Reality! It's incredibly easy to start a money-making business right from the comfort of your own home. Millions of people just like you are enjoying the freedom—and extra income—of working for themselves. You can too. In 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000, home-based business guru Tyler Hicks shows you how to achieve your work-at-home dream. Inside you'll learn the secrets to: ·Choosing the home-based business that's just right for you ·Getting started in your business with minimal cost ·Building your fortune doing what you love ·Running a business from home while keeping your day job ·Using the Internet to advertise and promote your home-based business ·And much more! This invaluable book will help you begin your promising new life today as a successful home-based entrepreneur!
Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
Download or read book The Definitive Business Plan written by Richard Stutely and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Definitive Business Plan" delivers fast-track advice, aimed at competent business people who want to get beyond the basics and produce definitive, cogent and intelligent plans.
Download or read book Super Founders written by Ali Tamaseb and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Super Founders uses a data-driven approach to understand what really differentiates billion-dollar startups from the rest—revealing that nearly everything we thought was true about them is false! Ali Tamaseb has spent thousands of hours manually amassing what may be the largest dataset ever collected on startups, comparing billion-dollar startups with those that failed to become one—30,000 data points on nearly every factor: number of competitors, market size, the founder’s age, his or her university’s ranking, quality of investors, fundraising time, and many, many more. And what he found looked far different than expected. Just to mention a few: Most unicorn founders had no industry experience; There's no disadvantage to being a solo founder or to being a non-technical CEO; Less than 15% went through any kind of accelerator program; Over half had strong competitors when starting--being first to market with an idea does not actually matter. You will also hear the stories of the early days of billion-dollar startups first-hand. The book includes exclusive interviews with the founders/investors of Zoom, Instacart, PayPal, Nest, Github, Flatiron Health, Kite Pharma, Facebook, Stripe, Airbnb, YouTube, LinkedIn, Lyft, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Square, venture capital investors like Elad Gil, Peter Thiel, Alfred Lin from Sequoia Capital and Keith Rabois of Founders Fund, as well as previously untold stories about the early days of ByteDance (TikTok), WhatsApp, Dropbox, Discord, DiDi, Flipkart, Instagram, Careem, Peloton, and SpaceX. Packed with counterintuitive insights and inside stories from people who have built massively successful companies, Super Founders is a paradigm-shifting and actionable guide for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone interested in what makes a startup successful.
Download or read book Scaling Lean written by Ash Maurya and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scaling Lean offers an invaluable blueprint for modeling startup success. You'll learn the essential metrics that measure the output of a working business model, give you the pulse of your company, communicate its health to investors, and enable you to make precise interventions when things go wrong, "--Amazon.com.
Download or read book Writing a Business Plan written by Vaughan Evans and published by Pearson UK. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you seek financial backing or board consent, this book will give you the critical knowledge you need to get the go-ahead. Written by a seasoned practitioner with years of experience in both writing and evaluating business plans for funding, it will help you formulate a coherent, consistent and convincing business plan with your backer’s needs in mind. Follow its guidance and your plan will have every chance of winning the backing you need for your business to succeed. FT ESSENTIAL GUIDES: THE KNOW-HOW YOU NEED TO GET THE RESULTS YOU WANT
Download or read book How to Write a Business Plan written by Brian Finch and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all the issues in producing a business plan, this text also includes a full glossary, case histories, and a detailed section on the key issue of using internal business plans.
Download or read book Oracle Internals written by Donald K. Burleson and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a typical Oracle professional, you don't have the luxury of time to keep up with new technology and read all the new manuals to understand each new feature of the latest release from Oracle. You need a comprehensive source of information and in-depth tips and techniques for using the new technology. You need Oracle Internals: Tips, Trick
