Topic

business plans

A collection of 35 issues

Doorbell Pitch Ring

The latest effort of Richard Branson to encourage startup ideas as you'd expect garners business press coverage this week. Wannabe entrepreneurs can walk into one of his hotels, go to the lift, press the Ring doorbell (hopefully) affixed, and deliver their 'elevator pitch'. Here's a selection of his launch PR,

BHAG Your Ambition

News orgs are newsmakers from their London lairs this week. One new entrant into the rolling cycle pulls up its anchor, as another UK startup tv channel (they still exist) gets freshly emboldened through out-living its rival. The survivor outlined ambitions to shake-up its sector and become 'the largest player

Verkoopfilosofie

I touched recently on the differing core approaches to elite level football presently battling for supremacy. There's been a number of progressions in how the game ought be played, since first codified in mid-19th Century England. Tactically in more recent times, the 'Total Football' of 70s Dutch masters help give

Bank On First Rule

An English Northener recently held the limelight of his life story being made into a film. Despite suffering a touch from the gloss of typically Hollywood fabulation, his Bank On Dave rags to riches type tale of taking on Big Money by setting up his own bank tugs on a

Are You Off With Startup Selling Plan Like This?

With experience throughout my career of being paid to research, shape, and write business plans - not to mention creating such for my own ambitions - I've long appreciated the crossover between them and new endeavour sales planning. Especially given my time in New Product Rescue. So I duly note

4 Word Business Plan Slide

I recently came across a start-up [http://mmhmm.app] in the ‘video communication’ space. In twelve months just past, going from idea through prototype, beta release and $100 a year subscription launch whilst securing $100m [https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/07/mmhmm-raises-100m-which-is-a-fun-thing-to-say-to-people-who-dont-follow-tech/] funding and a possible $400m valuation. It helps

3 Tips To Win Investment In Dragons Den

I haven’t watched this show for years. I was surprised to learn it was still going. Once a big fan, after a few seasons of much promise, caricatures, egos and arrogance took over from the charismatic pull of genuine invention against take-to-market tension. A previous ‘dragon’ (potential investor, aka

Another Ultimate Pitch Deck Template

[https://slidemodel.com/] Spoiler Alert: It Isn’t. The web is awash with such decks to download. All manner of downloadable imagery. Theoretically enabling the standard user access to the graphic design pro. There are many criticisms of slides so peddled. To use someone else’s framework that doesn’t

Another Inc Investor Pitch Piece

These recur with quite the frequency. Yet in this instance I was pleasantly surprised. For inc.com’s May ’19 print edition cover-trailed ‘what investors really want to hear’ (p94) offered something above the lazy rehash. 9 top venture capitalists [https://www.inc.com/magazine/201905/kimberly-weisul/pitching-investors-venture-capital-money-advice-tips.html?cid=

The Death Of The Business Plan And Your Sales Plans

I recently read the 2015 update to Art of the Start. Guy Kawasaki [http://guykawasaki.com/] (currently framing himself as Evangelist Author Speaker) preaches that the business plan is no more. In its place the business pitch now rules. This is happily bad news for expensive hired hands who thieve