Chinese Math

Posted in Business Plan Tips, Marketing
By David Kaplan - March 29th, 2009 No comments

At the peak of Silicon Valley ‘s bubble, back in January of 2000, Guy Kawasaki wrote an irreverent article for Forbes Magazine about the poor quality of business plans that inexperienced entrepreneurs were submitting to venture capitalists back in those days.  The article notes a number of common mistakes, most articulated in Guy’s signature tongue-in-cheek style, but […]

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The Venture Quest

Posted in Venture Capital
By David Kaplan - March 17th, 2009 No comments

Many start-ups literally spend years chasing venture capital funding. Now, sometimes that perseverance makes sense, but often it does not. Still, once an entrepreneur has decided that her enterprise is suited to VC investment it can be difficult if not impossible to change her mind.

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