September 2010
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Executive Summary Contest
Think you have a good executive summary? Think it’s better than 99 others? The average executive summary has a 1000:1 chance of getting funded: Is yours that one-in-a-thousand? Find Out!
Send your executive summary to contest@baeworkshop.com today. The most promising summary will save $200 on BAE Workshop. The deadline to apply for the contest is Wednesday, September 15th.
If you...
August 2010
6 posts
What the Numbers Don't Tell You About Start-Up...
A deeper look into the statistics of fund raising for entrepreneurs
In an earlier post (How Bad is It?) I showed data indicating that only one applicant gets funded for every thousand executive summaries received by a VC firm. While that is absolutely true, it doesn’t tell the whole story.
Normal statistics assume that the objects the statistics deal with are interchangeable, but this is not...
Looking Up? A Review of Recent Funding Data
A review of recent VC investment data
Every quarter chroniclers of the state of the venture capital industry release data about the quarter just past. Most of the data is retrospective, giving little guidance as to what we can expect in the future—other than a continuation of whatever trend exists from the last few quarters. A lot of ink is spent documenting how much money VCs have raised...
13 Mistakes: Real-Life Mistakes Made by...
First of several posts about entrepreneurial mistakes and their consequences
From time to time I will be posting about mistakes entrepreneurs make in their search for funding. These anecdotes are drawn from my own consulting practice. Every one describes an actual circumstance, hard as that may be to believe. Each one represents a company with an investable idea that because of mistakes made...
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How Bad Is It?
A summary of the odds entrepreneurs seeking funding face
The hard truth is that most entrepreneurs aren’t going to get funded, and most of them won’t know why. Here are some examples of how hard it is to get funding in the San Francisco Bay Area. Data may be different in other parts of the country.
A small VC firm in San Francisco reports that it gets 6,000 executive summaries a year yet...
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