Posted on January 19, 2008 by bookle
By Kathleen Allen
(Wiley, 2000)
Recommended by Randy Swangard, director, New Venture Championship, University of Oregon
Swangard calls this primer, which is on his students’ reading lists, a good start for those writing their first business plans. The book may not suit those trying to land million-dollar venture investments to finance tech startups. But it covers the basics [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008 by bookle
By Stanley Rich and David E. Gumpert
(Harper, 1987)
Recommended by Ken Gaebler, president, Gaebler Ventures
Gaebler, a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, says he has used Business Plans That Win $$$ as a reference ever since a veteran entrepreneur recommended it in the mid-1990s, when he was starting his first software company. “The book is a bit [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008 by bookle
By David Gladstone and Laura Gladstone
(FT Press, 2001)
Recommended by Glenn Friendt, director, Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Friendt says the Venture Capital Handbook offers classic advice from writing business plans to pitching to VCs. “This was done by a venture capitalist who had seen thousands of venture plans,” he says. Friendt has [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008 by bookle
From PaloAlto Software
This software is recommended by Philana Diaz, director, Rice University Business Plan Competition
The popular business plan software from Palo Alto, along with the company’s online seminars, provides a useful guide for those writing their first business plans, says Diaz. “It’s more interactive. It gives them templates and it gives them ideas on what [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2008 by bookle
By Guy Kawasaki
(Portfolio, 2004)
Recommended by Art Boni, director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University
In his latest book, The Art of the Start, former Apple (AAPL) evangelist and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki doesn’t focus exclusively on business plans. But Boni says it’s an essential, plain-English guide to what entrepreneurs need to think [...]
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