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Investors don't typically look at business plans. They look at your elevator pitch and about a 10 page PPT slide highlighting your main points: your technology, your team, and the market.



"Investors don't typically look at business plans."

That's only going to be true if you're making something like a website where the market and the monetization strategy are limited to a few well-understood choices. If your business is something like, for example, selling handicapped-accessible home swimming pools to parents of children with disabilities then a business plan is key.


Yes, but the focus of YCN are Internet businesses for the most part.


You also get no loan from a bank or (free) state financing without a business plan.

They don't invest their money in hot air :-).


Definitely need to work on the elevator pitch.




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