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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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Writing an Effective Business Plan — Deloitte & Touche LLP.

The process of preparing a business plan involves identifying likely users, gathering accurate and convincing information, and carefully outlining th
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Business Plans — The Nuts and Bolts

Why Write A Business Plan? Because you have to…; Obtain financing; explain the business to customer/employees; attract key people/partbers.
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The Business Plan

In January I had the pleasure of organizing and moderating the Annual “Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans” seminar series at MIT. Although these sem
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BizPlanIt Virtual Business Plan

A free online resource for business plan writing that provides insight into the fundamentals. Look at the left hand column for quick tips.
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Business Plan Center with a Library of Real Business Plans

This library of business plans includes entries in the Moot Corp® Competition at the University of Texas. Each business plan was a winner or finalist
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Guide to producing a business plan

Has link to a great Ernst & Young booklet on producing a business plan for high growth ventures.
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Entrepreneur Resource Centre

PricewaterhouseCoopers has developed a comprehensive online resource centre specifically for entrepreneurs and people who own their own businesses. T
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