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March 19, 2006
Simpler, Easier, Cheaper, Faster
Ad Thoughts: Cheap startups This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I believe that at the top of the tech industry there is increasing consolidation and yet outside it is getting much more fragmented. This is happening because it's so much easier to create stuff these days. It's becoming true in all parts of business. I'm quite excited about it. The real key is imagination, and execution.
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The elevator pitch
Practicing the Art of Pitchcraft
A VC talks about the all-important elevator pitch. While reading his comments I came across an interesting application: http://www.yourelevatorpitch.com it's a cool little Ruby app that lets you post and rate pitches. Check mine out while you're there.
Posted by bizfund at 04:37 PM | Comments (0)
March 15, 2006
Business Plan Tips
Business Plans Gone Wild - Forbes.com Tom Taulli on Forbes writes a good article on a couple of simple but important tips for writing business plans.
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March 05, 2006
Friends Family and Fools
Capitalizing On Family While I am somewhat opposed to borrowing from friends and family, this video segment presents useful tips on the first round of financing for a lot of startups.
Friends and Family are well defined as to who they are for each entrepreneur. Fools, on the other hand, is something that might be new to some readers. This segment is occupied by non-businesspeople that are high-income earners such as dentists, doctors, lawyers, HR directors... These people want to be as wealthy as the world percieves them to be but aren't because their expenses tend to catch up quickly with their incomes. They have some cash available for investing and would love to be able to "hit it big" so they could stop working so much. CircleLending is a really good program for these lenders/investors that makes them feel like their risk is a little less than it would be otherwise. It might make the difference between getting their money or not.
Posted by bizfund at 10:09 AM | Comments (0)