The document provides guidance on paying attention to important details when starting a business. It emphasizes that developing a detailed plan and sticking to it is the most important factor for success when launching a new venture. Additionally, the key details that really matter in the beginning are having a clear vision, strong product design, strategic positioning, the right people, distribution and customer adoption, a defensible market position, and considering exit strategies. All other early-stage details are less critical. Measurement and feedback loops are also emphasized as important for ongoing learning and adjustment.
If you're based in Pakistan, what the best way to raise local funding? With over 7 years of experience in running startups, Nash explains the best way forward.
So you got an idea. How do you make it into a business? You need to make a startup, search for a business model, find customers and scale. This talk briefly talks about where to go next
If you're based in Pakistan, what the best way to raise local funding? With over 7 years of experience in running startups, Nash explains the best way forward.
So you got an idea. How do you make it into a business? You need to make a startup, search for a business model, find customers and scale. This talk briefly talks about where to go next
How to prepare for investment and run a successful process Sam Riley CEO, Ans...Ansarada
Ansarada: Our experience and where our insights come from
Preparing: Start with the end in mind and work backwards
• Investors are judges that score your performance
• Why they do it, how and what really matters
• Ensuring your vision, strategy, plan/model, measures and foundations all tell the same story and align with the judges
Run and close a swift investment process
• Momentum makers vs momentum takers
• Be flexible on closing but keep it simple
Strategies for Accessing the US Market (Feb 1-2, 2016)Gil Ben-Artzy
In this talk, I try to offer practical advice for you to implement based on real case studies from the past 10 years of working with and investing in dozens of Israeli startups that have successfully brought their companies to the US.
Some of the topics covered include:
* Plans for creating momentum in the US, even while you are based in Israel
* Considerations and best practices for establishing your US office
* If, when and how to begin fundraising in the US
Startup founders -- this is your chance to get real answers to your real questions.
When you're seeking VC funds, it boils down to: What are venture capitalists really looking for -- and how can you show them you've got it?
In this presentation, Sean Foote, Founder and Managing Director of Co=Creation=Capital, and Gadiel Morantes, Chief Revenue Officer with Early Growth Financial Services discuss:
- What questions VCs will ask
- How to impress VCs
- Questions you should ask potential investors
- What NOT to ask investors
Co=Creation=Capital: Entrepreneurs + Money + Management = Co=Creation=Capital - because startups need all the help they can get!
EGFS is an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, tax, and valuation services and support to companies at all stages of the development process.
Recently, I had the opportunity to present at StartUp 2015 in Varna, Bulgaria. As part of Angelsbootcamp.org, we share our prorams with local startup ecosystems throughout Europe.
Your Go-To Guide for the most up-to-date strategies for understanding ADD/ADHD and attention skills. This page is designed to help you move along the ADD spectrum from frustration to elation and to give you a better understanding of what it really means to pay attention.
How to prepare for investment and run a successful process Sam Riley CEO, Ans...Ansarada
Ansarada: Our experience and where our insights come from
Preparing: Start with the end in mind and work backwards
• Investors are judges that score your performance
• Why they do it, how and what really matters
• Ensuring your vision, strategy, plan/model, measures and foundations all tell the same story and align with the judges
Run and close a swift investment process
• Momentum makers vs momentum takers
• Be flexible on closing but keep it simple
Strategies for Accessing the US Market (Feb 1-2, 2016)Gil Ben-Artzy
In this talk, I try to offer practical advice for you to implement based on real case studies from the past 10 years of working with and investing in dozens of Israeli startups that have successfully brought their companies to the US.
Some of the topics covered include:
* Plans for creating momentum in the US, even while you are based in Israel
* Considerations and best practices for establishing your US office
* If, when and how to begin fundraising in the US
Startup founders -- this is your chance to get real answers to your real questions.
When you're seeking VC funds, it boils down to: What are venture capitalists really looking for -- and how can you show them you've got it?
In this presentation, Sean Foote, Founder and Managing Director of Co=Creation=Capital, and Gadiel Morantes, Chief Revenue Officer with Early Growth Financial Services discuss:
- What questions VCs will ask
- How to impress VCs
- Questions you should ask potential investors
- What NOT to ask investors
Co=Creation=Capital: Entrepreneurs + Money + Management = Co=Creation=Capital - because startups need all the help they can get!
EGFS is an outsourced financial services firm that provides accounting, CFO, tax, and valuation services and support to companies at all stages of the development process.
Recently, I had the opportunity to present at StartUp 2015 in Varna, Bulgaria. As part of Angelsbootcamp.org, we share our prorams with local startup ecosystems throughout Europe.
Your Go-To Guide for the most up-to-date strategies for understanding ADD/ADHD and attention skills. This page is designed to help you move along the ADD spectrum from frustration to elation and to give you a better understanding of what it really means to pay attention.
Ideas have been the driving force of humanity. From a simple circular wheel carved from rock back in the stone ages to the first airplanes and telephones, innovative ideas have sparked off revolutionary changes in society. Now in this competitive world, ideas have become more important to us than actions. Companies have begun asking designers to generate solutions that meet the needs and desires of the consumer.
As such, there was a need to streamline and increase the efficiency of producing and sharing ideas within teams. This gave birth to several idea generation techniques, which allowed everyone to play a part in the creative process, a role allotted strictly to designers and engineers for the last few years.
Idea generation techniques meant anyone could participate in creating new ideas. It allowed people to share and build up on existing solutions, to foresee future problems, and essentially, to think big in terms of design. It brought different specializations together to create a more diverse think-tank that can tackle problems from several perspectives.
This report is divided into three parts.
First, we shall look into several idea generation techniques, both popular ones and the uncommon ones, question their uses and value by providing examples of products developed using the specific techniques.
Second, we discuss whether idea generation methods and techniques are important in coming up with new ideas? Are they the driving factor in generating ideas?
Lastly, we conclude with our personal view on idea generation techniques, along with stating which methods, if any, would we prefer to use.
Towards the end we aim to achieve a better understand of the creative thinking process as a whole and how to effectively solve all issues, design or otherwise.
Imogen started her first company, Qudini, after leaving university and sold the business 10 years later, 2 months before Imogen’s first child was born.
She will share some of the lessons she learned along the way in a journey that started with a hackathon she attended at age 23 where she met her Co-Founder and CTO. She will talk about her experience raising funds when she did not believe she would be a unicorn, growth hacking, choosing advisers, why she decided it was time to sell, and how she ultimately steered her business to a successful exit.
https://businessofsoftware.org/events/europe-2024/imogen-wethered-how-to-start-sell-a-software-business-in-a-decade/
A discussion on best practices and insights into potential deal breakers when selling a business or when looking for an investment, how to avoid them and strategies to turnaround a business to success.
Key Considerations When Buying a BusinessSkoda Minotti
Are you thinking about buying or selling a business in the next couple of years? Ken Haffey and Mike Trabert from Skoda Minotti’s Merger & Acquisition Group discuss what goes into buying a business.
Startany.com. Remote Acceleration Program.
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The Founder’s Guide to Early-Stage Valuation
Presented by Stephen R. Poland, co-founder 1x1 Media.
For many early-stage entrepreneurs assigning a valuation to your startup is one of the more intimidating tasks encountered during the fundraising quest. Based on the popular Founders’ Pocket Guide: Startup Valuation, this webinar provides a quick reference to all of the key topics around early-stage startup valuation and provides step-by- step examples for several valuation methods.
This webinar helps startup founders learn:
What a startup valuation is and when you need to start worrying about it.
Key terms and definitions associated with valuation, such as pre-money, post-money, and dilution.
How investors view the valuation task and what their expectations are for early-stage companies.
How the valuation fits with your target raise amount and resulting founder equity ownership.
How to do the simple math for calculating valuation percentages.
How to estimate your company valuation using several accepted methods.
Stephen R. Poland
Stephen R. Poland has worked with hundreds of startups and entrepreneurs, mentoring them on startup mechanics, funding plans, pitch decks, financial models, and due diligence documentation for the angel funding process.
Steve brings more than 20 years' experience in startups and entrepreneurship to his career. Leveraging leadership roles with the Walt Disney Company, MacMillan Publishing, and Bertelsmann, Steve co-founded startups in the digital music and on-demand media manufacturing sectors, as well an early days anti-virus product.
Along with being co-founder of 1x1 Media, Steve works as a venture growth advisor in Western North Carolina.
The first of three capability building seminars for the Northern Ireland Food & Drink sector. This session looks at strategic planning, when, how and why you need to do it (whatever your business).
Earthsoft Foundation of Guidance (EFG) is working as an NGO/NPO for students - Education & Career
guidance and for Professionals for soft skills enhancements. I am working on speading , sharing
knowledge; experience globally.It has uploaded important presentations at http://myefg.in/downloads.aspx.
Also https://dl.dropbox.com/u/83265908/Links-events.xls has links for all ppt files.
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Presentation on Sales & Marketing as a career, Required sales skills, Upsides & Downsides of Sales, Sales Pay scale, How to improve your Sales performance.
Research shows the top three marketing challenges for industrial businesses are:
- creating enough high-quality content
- targeting the right audience
- measuring success and return on investment.
All three of these prevent manufacturers from being able to generate leads and ROI quick enough! This means you're likely struggling with long sales cycles, low speed to lead and pressure to deliver leads to your sales team.
So, how can we fix this?
We want to show you how to overcome these common marketing challenges with:
- strong sales messaging and buyer personas
- a structure for content creation
- a killer marketing strategy
- an enhanced marketing tech stack.
On top of this, we'll discuss the solution to slow lead generation and how you can make a difference to your pipeline fast.
Writing Business Plan
What Is a Business Plan?
Why do You need?
Table of contents
Describe
Introduce
Products or Services
Unique selling points
Management
Marketing
Marketing Mix
Promotional Strategy
Future Growth and Expansion
Key Success Factors
Financial documents Mistake to avoid
Similar to Enterpreneur (paying attention to the details) (20)
1. Paying attention to Details,
its all in the Details
By : Mr.Mufaddal Zakirhusain
2. Pop Quiz
When starting a business, which is the most
important?
1) Be laser focused
2) Develop a detailed plan – and stick to it
3) Raise large amount of capital
4) Hire only A players
5) None of the above
6) All of the Above
3. Decision Making
• Are decisions opinion driven or data driven ?
• Are decisions informed by vision ?
• Is optionality increased or decreased by decisions ?
• Is the right question being asked ?
• How much data is required for knowledge or insight?
• What are the potential outcomes ?
• What is the right acceptable level of risk?
• Does the range of options affect outcomes?
• Are we measuring the right factors?
• How long is our decision loop ?
4. Key Rules of Measurement
• Measurement drives behavior
• Data should drive decision making
• Measure your competitors not just yourself
• Understand your Battlespace
• Data drives knowledge , knowledge drives advantage
• Superior Situational Awareness starts with superior
data collection
7. Spirally Developed Strategy
Code & Fix
1. Develop a Vision of the Future
2. Check Strategy
3. Select Battleground Market
4. Understand your competitors
5. Generate Tactics
6. Find & Win Lighthouse Customers
7. Adjust with Feedback
8. Dominate the Battlespace
9. Find the next Battleground
10.Repeat steps 2-9 until the war is won
11.Prepare for the next war
8. Measurement and Feedback Loops
• Benchmark yourself – Time & Resources, Goals and Objectives
• Observe your customers - what are their priorities, requirements and
decision process
• Track your competitors – understand their value proposition
• Understand your range of moves – find the one right question to
answer
• Plan your move – judo your competitors strength
• Force Action – make competitors play your game
• Review results – learn from failures, pursue success
• Adjust strategy – Be flexible , stay fluid
9. In the Beginning
Which details Don’t Matter
• Business Plan
• Business Models & Financials
• Work Environment
• Venture Brand
• Capital
10. Business Plan / Presentation
• The best business plans are “Directional correct”
• Strategy counts more than minutia
• Spirally develop business models
• Slick – Sucks
11. Business Models & Financials
1. Many of the best startups had fuzzy business
models
2. Focus on demand , not monetization
3. Burn vs …Profits, Scale vs ..Margins
4. Worry about the board that stares at
spreadsheets
12. Work Environment
• The performance of a startup is inversely related to
the quality of its office
13. Venture Brand
• Buy Partners not Associates
• Most Venture Funds profits are driven by one or
two partners
14. Capital
• Raise only what you need
• Too much cash makes you fat , dumb and stupid
• No Pain , No Gain
• Desperation drives Innovation
• Capital finds great entrepreneurs and ideas
15. In the beginning,
Which Details really matter?
1. Vision
2. Product Design
3. Strategic Positioning
4. People
5. Distribution & Adoption
6. Customers
7. Defensible Position
8. Exit Strategies
20. Exit Strategy
• Turn yourself into a sharp knife , find a street fight and
throw yourself into the middle
21. Venture Capital Conventional Wisdom
• Focus , Focus , Focus
• The VC’s job is to reduce Risk
• Bet on the jockey not the horse
• You can never raise enough money
• Concentrate on the financial numbers
• Be realistic
• Hire only A players
22. The VC’s job is to Reduce Risk
• VC’s job is to increase opportunities and maximize
value
23. Bet on the jockey not the horse
• You need both
24. Concentrate on the (financial) numbers
• Concentrate on the product and adoption
27. Final Thoughts
• Spend as much time picking your partners as you
would your spouse
• Product rules
• Attack your competitors at their strength
• Never undersetimate your competition
• Push to your failure point
• Never be satisfied