JUDGING CRITERIA:

• How Judges Evaluate Plans

FIRST STEPS:

• Identifying Business Opportunities (Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN:

• Business Plan Outline: Sections of a Business Plan
• Business Plan Writing Schedule
• Notes on Specific Sections of Business Plan:
         Financial Model: a generic financial model for use in developing a business plan (Microsoft Excel file)

PROTECT YOUR IDEA:

• Overview of Patent Law: Protecting your ideas

• Financing Your Startup (March 30, 2000 PDF Format)
  • Handout 1: Estimated Annual Total Compensation Levels (PDF Format)
  • Handout 2: Startup Costs and Expenses (PDF Format)
• Optimizing Marketing Strategies (April 10, 2000 PDF Format)
• New Enterprise Marketing (April 2002 PDF Format)
• Making Financial Projections (April 2002 PDF Format)
• How to Approach a VC (April 2002 PDF Format)
• Building Financial Projections (April 2003 Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation)

VC PRESENTATIONS:

• Presenting to VCs: Running the Gauntlet

OTHER:

       Business Plans
              Dial-A-Fish (Adobe PDF file) (1991)
              Virtual Ink (Adobe PDF file) (1997)

       Executive Summaries
              CheapTalk (Adobe PDF file)
              CMS (Adobe PDF file)
              NetPecker (Adobe PDF file)
              SiliconTest (Adobe PDF file)