A lot goes into writing a good business plan. Before you even get started, here are a few important considerations that will make your business planning and presentation more successful.
There you are with a business idea of a lifetime and you’re in front of a room full of investors… Although there are many of the usual things you must get right in your initial presentation to investors, here are my top 3 must-do’s to include. More and more investors these days are “Betting…
Many years ago at the University of Texas at Austin, I was a judge for a business plan competition. There were 3 venture capitalists and me on the panel. The odd thing that struck me was that every team at some point stated, “We’re going to do a million dollars our first year.” Hmmm… I…
The other day, I got a call from one of our investors / advisors… Rob Kramarz at Intelliversity.org He had a question about using one of our 5-year financial model templates with a client. (As an investor himself, Rob also helps entrepreneurs raise capital.) And he uses Business Power Tools and our BizPlanBuilder to get…
Former Toastmasters club president $hares insights on $peaking $uccessfully My Australian networking group (The Connect Collaborative) asked me to speak to them about speaking. From my experience with Toastmasters for several years, I share a handful of presentation tips I haven’t heard anywhere else. Pre-Speaking Ritual Words are worth 1,000 Pictures What Your Background Reveals…
