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What are good questions to answer for business plans?

This is my answer on Quora to ‘what are good questions to answer in a business plan?’ Congrats on your question. Basing your planning on what questions to answer, as you suggest, is a really good way to do it. Everything in business planning is case by case, and every plan is unique, so you’re […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
3 Sep 2013

Are You ‘Hands On’ Enough To Succeed In A Startup?

There is no substitute for diving into the key details of a new startup. Executives from large companies have sometimes long forgotten how to do this (“My people will contact your people to work out the details.”). Others hire consultants, or outsource much of the real work. These executives won’t survive long in a startup […]
Martin Zwilling
Martin Zwilling , Founder and CEO , Startup Professionals
2 Sep 2013

Where can I find a list of Angels who are also impact investors?

The two leading impact investing angel groups in the US are Investors Circle(http://gust.com/angel-group/inve…) and Toniic (http://gust.com/angel-group/toniic). *original post can be found on Quora @ http://www.quora.com/David-S-Rose/answers *
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
1 Sep 2013

Where can I find data relating to Angel Investment?

Unfortunately, none of this data exists. Period. The reasons are (a) there is no such thing as an “average” angel investor, and (b) there is currently no way to track the activities or record of individual investors. That said, the rough ranges would be as follows: Individual angel investors receive anywhere from zero to 50 […]
David S. Rose
David S. Rose , Founder and CEO , GUST INC.
29 Aug 2013

Good Advice, Bad Advice, Land Mines on a Path to Heaven

Having just read James Altucher’s Ultimate Cheat Sheet for Starting and Running a Business, I’m fascinated by a collection of bold, very well written, and remarkably unambigious advice, most of it great, some of it terrible. The effect is like a path to heaven with hidden land mines. Read it, but don’t believe it. Think about […]
Tim Berry
Tim Berry , Founder , Palo Alto Software
27 Aug 2013
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