Business Plan through investors' eyes

Business Plan through investors' eyes, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.95, with 33 lectures, 6 quizzes, based on 28 reviews, and has 340 subscribers.

You will learn about Create and Present a business plan that investors will invest in. Understand how investors read and listen to business plan Understand when investors decide to invest in a company, and why they choose not to Understand the four elements of a successful business plan Determine whether an idea you have for a product, service, process, or business model will be successful as a business Create the right set of documents for a business plan, and a presentation of it Identify a sustainable competitive advantage for your business, and how to maintain it over time Analyze Return on Investment (ROI) for the customer, company, and investors This course will NOT teach business finance. It is assumed that you understand the basics of revenue, cost, operating expenses, and net profit. This course is ideal for individuals who are Entrepreneurs seeking to start a new business and want to create a pragmatic business plan for it or Entrepreneurs looking for a bank or SBA loan for a small business or Entrepreneurs seeking private or institutional investment for a new startup company or Intrapreneurs, employees inside a large, established companies who seek resources allocated to a new internal project It is particularly useful for Entrepreneurs seeking to start a new business and want to create a pragmatic business plan for it or Entrepreneurs looking for a bank or SBA loan for a small business or Entrepreneurs seeking private or institutional investment for a new startup company or Intrapreneurs, employees inside a large, established companies who seek resources allocated to a new internal project.

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Summary

Title: Business Plan through investors' eyes

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.95

Number of Lectures: 33

Number of Quizzes: 6

Number of Published Lectures: 33

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 39

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 39

Original Price: $39.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Create and Present a business plan that investors will invest in.
Understand how investors read and listen to business plan
Understand when investors decide to invest in a company, and why they choose not to
Understand the four elements of a successful business plan
Determine whether an idea you have for a product, service, process, or business model will be successful as a business
Create the right set of documents for a business plan, and a presentation of it
Identify a sustainable competitive advantage for your business, and how to maintain it over time
Analyze Return on Investment (ROI) for the customer, company, and investors
This course will NOT teach business finance. It is assumed that you understand the basics of revenue, cost, operating expenses, and net profit.

Who Should Attend

Entrepreneurs seeking to start a new business and want to create a pragmatic business plan for it
Entrepreneurs looking for a bank or SBA loan for a small business
Entrepreneurs seeking private or institutional investment for a new startup company
Intrapreneurs, employees inside a large, established companies who seek resources allocated to a new internal project

Target Audiences

Entrepreneurs seeking to start a new business and want to create a pragmatic business plan for it
Entrepreneurs looking for a bank or SBA loan for a small business
Entrepreneurs seeking private or institutional investment for a new startup company
Intrapreneurs, employees inside a large, established companies who seek resources allocated to a new internal project

Let me guess what brings you here: you have an idea, and you need an investment for a startup company. Or you work for a large company and want to get budget for your new project. Or you want to start a small business and you need a small business loan from the bank. You are here because you are afraid to fail when you present your business plan. Most people do.

Am I close?

If so–you came to the right place.

I founded several startup companies, wrote many business plans that raised tens of millions of dollars in investments, and got projects funded in large companies. I sold a company, and even bought a company. I wrote books about it, and taught this in universities.

But more important, I am an investor, and was part of several angel investor networks from Silicon Valley to Texas and Israel, where I made personal investments in startups. I also evaluated business plans for the State of Texas, and the State of Israel, and made project funding decisions in large and public companies.

As such, I only have a few minutes to snap-judge a business plan that comes across my desk. I will share with you what makes me (and other investors) stop, and decide whether to invest in a new business or not.

In this course you will learn the four rules of a successful business plan:

Create something fundamentally different,
Find the unique value to a specific market segment,
Establish and maintain competitive advantage, and-
Calculate the return on investment for your customer, your company, and your investor.

I will teach you how to assess your business, create the business plan, and present it to investors. I will do that with:

33 lectures (over 4 hours);
22 worksheets that will allow you to build your own business plan, step by step;
6 quizzes that will help you internalize the content;
Personal examples; and-
An Israeli accent…

At the end of this course, you will have an inside track on how investors and budget managers think, what are they looking for in a business plan, and what will make them invest in you!

I will teach you what I know now, but wish I knew when I created and presented my first business plan.

Are you ready to learn this? Enroll in this class, or try the free preview. Now, let’s get you funded!

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Something Fundamentally Different

Lecture 1: A solution looking for a problem

Chapter 3: Value-Add Differentiation

Lecture 1: So what, who cares? (Part 1)

Lecture 2: So What, Who Cares? (Part 2)

Chapter 4: Establishing and Maintaining Competitive Advantage

Lecture 1: Competitors and Substitute Products

Lecture 2: Identifying future competitors

Lecture 3: Rocket science and secret sauce

Lecture 4: Patents (Part 1)

Lecture 5: Patents (Part 2)

Lecture 6: Patents (Part 3)

Lecture 7: Man-years

Lecture 8: First mover advantage

Lecture 9: Access to market and resources

Chapter 5: What's in it for me? Return on Investment (ROI)

Lecture 1: If it costs $100 to make, how much should I sell it for?

Lecture 2: The Experience Curve

Lecture 3: Customer Return on Investment (ROI)

Lecture 4: Market size and segmentation

Lecture 5: Is your market small enough?

Lecture 6: The most important part of the business plan

Lecture 7: What assumptions do you need to make?

Lecture 8: Assumption sensitivity analysis

Lecture 9: Projected financials

Lecture 10: Company Return on Investment (ROI)

Lecture 11: Investor Return on Investment (ROI)

Lecture 12: The exit strategy

Chapter 6: Word? Excel? Power Point? PDF?

Lecture 1: The business plan files

Chapter 7: Presenting the Business Plan

Lecture 1: Never go into a meeting if you don't know what the outcome will be…

Lecture 2: What do investors need to hear?

Lecture 3: Plan the presentation time

Lecture 4: Demonstrate

Lecture 5: the Due Diligence Process

Chapter 8: Summary

Lecture 1: Common mistakes that entrepreneurs make in business plans

Lecture 2: Summary. What's next?

Instructors

Yoram Solomon
Creativity & Innovation Researcher, Author, Speaker, Coach

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