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Under No Circumstances Write A Long Business Plan (my actual angel funded deck) (thefailingpoint.com)
28 points by BrandonWatson on Aug 10, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



This must be an effective presentation because I actually understood it after 3 minutes. Then again, isn't that the point? Great job.


To be honest, 3 years on, I am embarrassed to read it. So many things I know now that I would have liked to have put in the deck. Thanks for the kind words...I really want to share as much as I can from that learning experience.


I think it'd be really helpful for the readers for you to write about what you would change and why.


Are you asking about what we would change in the deck or the company? There's certainly a bit of what you seek in the write up in terms of what we did wrong with this deck. In the future, I plan to put up the deck we took to the VCs when we went seeking the Series A round. We received two term sheets from what anyone would call Tier 1 firms. Hopefully seeing that deck, and being able to contrast it against this one, will be useful for entrepreneurs and founders looking to raise capital. If you have more specific questions, please don't hesitate to send them to me on email or twitter.


In the future, I plan to put up the deck we took to the VCs when we went seeking the Series A round. We received two term sheets from what anyone would call Tier 1 firms.

That would be awesome. Thanks Brandon.


I know this is off topic, but IMSafer is a great application. Please add the ability to "Mark All As Read" or make your AJAX-ey site run faster. I have 1000's of alerts to go through and have given up on taking the time to clear them all out!


Thanks for the kind words. I wish I could help. The company that bought IMSafer about 20 months ago had done some updates, but they mostly bought the backend stuff for products they were selling into other markets. Have you sent an email to support?


Yep. I think I actually mentioned it in an e-mail to you when you owned it. It's ok though, I'm about to uninstall the app as everyone in the house has grown up enough to deal with their own issues :).




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