Risk management

Winning Startup Business Plan

Essential Components of a Winning Startup Business Plan

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Key reasons why you need a business plan for your startup 1. A roadmap to success To succeed in today’s competitive environment, you need a sound business plan and solid execution capabilities. A critical step is to develop a thorough understanding of your competitive environment and to identify the key drivers that will determine your …

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The Berkus method: A pre-revenue valuation method

The Berkus method: an elegantly simple model to value a pre-revenue start-up

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The Berkus method provides entrepreneurs and early-stage investors with a simple framework to value a pre-revenue startup by focusing on risk factors instead of financial projections. This method is useful for founders and early-stage investors (angels, early-stage venture capital, and crowdfunding backers). However, the model’s simplicity does not replace the need to perform comprehensive due …

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