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The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital

VCs are good at asking questions. They are unimplicated in your dumb decisions, unmoved by your original sense of mission and far less concerned than you that a blunder could bankrupt you. They re-imagine your business in terms of all the other businesses they’ve seen, pulling the arms off one doll and the head off another to create a perfect money-making Frankenstein. And since the stakes are high, the whole philosophical exercise tends to result in action.

Here are the questions VCs asked Redfin that changed how we think about our business.

1. What’s your deadly sin? Sequoia’s Roelof Botha
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Ask The VC: Start-up Cost Projections For First Time Entrepreneurs

As I’ve (Brad Feld) said in the past, I’ve never met a financial plan for an early stage company where the revenue side was correct. However, I’v
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Spreadsheet template for financial plan, cash flow, sales forecast and more

This page includes numerous links to free templates that are helpful to startup entrepreneur. In particular there is a comprehensive Excel spreadshee
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Spreadsheet for creating a startup financial plan

PricewaterhouseCoopers has provided a free Excel spreadsheet template for financial projections for Business Plans. Use this financial modeling sprea
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Developing a Marketing Communications plan

‘A successful marketing plan integrates all marketing activities with all other company departments to surround the consumer without them ever knowi
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How to Write a Marketing Plan Tutorial From KnowThis.com

Here is a comprehensive tutorial with all the detail on writing a marketing plan. The approach taken is to present a 6-Part plan …. worth reading!
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How Big Could Your Business Be? – Calculating the Total Addressable Market (TAM)

Let’s say that you have just built the next great mousetrap, and a potential investor wants to know how many you could possibly sell…. Or, maybe you j
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Develop a Strategic Marketing Plan

If you think that developing a strategic marketing plan is something only big, fancy corporations need to do, think again. You need one, too! It’ll
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Business Milestones that Matter – Resources for Entrepreneurs – Gaebler Ventures – Chicago, Illinois

Business plan milestones? We know we need to include them, but what’s a milestone that matters and what milestones don’t deserve a busines plan men
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Milestones – Biotech Startup Milestones – Venture Capital Deliverables

Getting startup funding from a venture capitalist (VC) might require establishing a list of milestones that not only helps keep the development of co
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