Substance

Learn how to demonstrate substance and credibility.

Conduct Focused Business Analysis – Doing your homework well on your markets, customers and industry is powerful in demonstrating you have an intimate understanding of your opportunity and can describe it to investors in a compelling and cogent manner.

Build an Intellectual Property Strategy – The entrepreneur needs to show an ability to sustain the technology advantage. This can be achieved by developing a number of related products, also unique, around the core technology.

Idea to Launch Product Development – Research and Product Development costs are associated with the development of the company’s products. Included are the costs of the engineering team, quality assurance, outsourced consultants or engineering, etc. Investors see the money spent in this category as a means to value creation.

Alliance Creation to Boost Value – Just as important as customer commitments are to the capital raise efforts, partnership commitments fare well, too. No company, particularly, a start-up, can be successful entirely on its own.

Financial Modeling with Proforma Statements – Why is a financial model important to an investor, and more importantly, to the entrepreneur?

Market Research Tool Box
Don't underestimate the power of information and market intelligence gathering as they are important factors in creating a successful company. This 47 powerpoint slide product provides you with an overview of the tools you can use in conducting market research to make better decisions and to solve nagging problems. Investors want to see that you have done your homework and have a good handle on customers, competitors and industry dynamics.
Price: $9.95
 Industry and Competitive Market Research-ebook & PPT
Industry and Competitive Market Research-ebook & PPT
Generally used in preparing your business plan, secondary research (research using the Internet, databases, third party reports, etc) is used to determine market size, industry trends and the nature of the competitive landscape. This e-book and accompanying powerpoint provides tips, suggestions and techniques to get the information you need fast. It also provides short abstracts on the business analysis techniques you could use once the information is obtained. This bundled product contains a 67 page powerpoint and a 60 page word document. Don’t underestimate market research. It shows investors you’ve done your homework!
Price: $19.95
Financial Models with Sensitivity Analysis - Service Based Revenue Based
Financial Models with Sensitivity Analysis - Service Based Revenue Based
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The accompanying instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
Financial Models with Sensitivity Analysis - Product Revenue Based
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
Financial Models with Sensitivity Analysis - Subscription Revenue Based
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
Financial Models with Sensitivity Analysis - E-Commerce Revenue Based
These powerful models can both save time and also money for a busy entrepreneur needing to demonstrate how the business “pencils out”. These model templates include revenue forecasting sheets, cost assumption sheets that then automatically generate financial statements such as Income, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow statements. The instructions make it easy to understand how the financial model works and what the logic behind the inputs. There are four different types of models based upon business type – Subscription based, Service Oriented, Production based Products and E-Commerce oriented.
Price: $89.95
Investment Lexicon (Language of Investment)
Investment Lexicon (Language of Investment)
Every organization, sector, culture or industry has one - a lexicon of terms used to uniquely describe something specific that a group's membership understands. These are words or phrases that hold specific meaning. Download this free lexicon and get familiar with the language of investment. You'll find it useful to understand the terms used by investors. FREE DOWNLOAD!
Price: $0.00
SWOT Template
SWOT Template
This tool is a 11 page template and accompanied spreadsheet is used by entrepreneurs to think about their companies external and internal environments. Internally assessing a company’s strengths (S) and weaknesses (W) as well as external factors such as opportunities (O) and threats (T). FREE DOWNLOAD!
Price: $0.00
How to Create a Winning Business Plan
How to Create a Winning Business Plan
Looking for capital? It starts with creating a business plan. This 40 page e-book is filled with tips, suggestions and templates to assist an entrepreneur in getting started on the task of building a business plan. Its a great place to start for a new entrepreneur. FREE DOWNLOAD!
Price: $0.00
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