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Startups: How to build a financial model and breathe life into it

14th May 2012 by uzma under Startup

Considering embarking on the road to entrepreneurship? Clueless about financial modeling? In this post we aim to provide a basic explanation of financial modeling and its importance for startups.

We begin by asking the following questions:

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Customer Persona of a MBA Student: What does a typical business school student looks like?

9th March 2012 by Jawwad under B School, Business School, Pitches, Startup

We have spoken about building customer persona’s before on this site.

Last week we ran another detailed customer persona exercise for the Starting up class I teach at SP Jain. Here is the output from the class session.

The primary question posed to the group was:

What does a typical North American MBA student look like at a top 10, top 20 business school? How would you start building a customer…

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The Death of Yahoo

9th February 2012 by Jawwad under Business School, Startup

It’s been a week since launch. I have more war stories to tell.

The most interesting one deals with Yahoo hosting and the downtime you noticed and witnessed on Tuesday and Wednesday.

For ages I knew that I was being ripped off by Yahoo, but didn’t know enough to do something about it. Once we had Arbab on the scene and the FourQuants.com launch related pressure was off we started…

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Startup School: It's that time of the year again. Lets launch a business in January

3rd February 2012 by Admin under Business School, Startup

To great stories – That sound movielandish – but aren’t.

Some stories are meant to be told. Because if you don’t hear it from me directly, you would never believe that it happened. And if I don’t put it down tonight, I don’t think I will believe it happened either, come Friday morning. A complex tapestry of events and characters; chance meetings, Far Eastern locations and outlandish…

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Checking in from Bangkok. The Fourquants.com and FTC marketing tour of Thailand.

30th January 2012 by Admin under Startup

Or How a great partner delivered on an amazing business development trip to Bangkok…

Some relationships begin in exotic locations. Others in odd circumstances. Then there is that small lot classified as destiny waiting in the wings. Our story takes a bit from all three.

Alchemy and Wealth Management crossed each others path on an early morning in February 2006 when we were stepping out of the judging room…

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Startup Training: Free Pitching for Startups video series. Pitching your dreams to investors and customers

28th January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Case Study, Small Business, Startup

Learning how to sell for startups: Sales and Investors Pitching free online workshop

Four videos.. 2 Hours, 40 minutes and change…No fees.

Two things made this happen.

The first was seeing the full 50+ session series online for course 600 at the MIT OCW site. This is how they teach computer science at MIT (a course I once dreamed about attending). Discovered it while testing our Android Application on our…

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Startup Guide: I hate product launches or the 40 days that led to last night

22nd January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Startup

One would think that after doing this for the last twenty years by now this would have gotten easier. Apparently not.

Here is the Memento look (with apologies to Guy Pierce) on what happened last night.

Day Zero – Launch

21st January 2012 – 2:00 am – Launch

Press post on Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter.

21st January 2012 – 1:00 am – Code Launch

The blog post announcing…

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Startup Guide: Code Launch: The 10 step guide to bombing your product launch

21st January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Small Business, Startup

1. Write a check – buy stuff and shit and run your meager bank account into the ground.

2. Add a team – grow to 10 people before you know it – do everything in house.

3. Add features like there is no tomorrow.

4. Forget the product, ship your launch date every time you get close to the launch date.

5. Buy hosting on Go-daddy.

6. Opt for Hamlet mode (Hands off I…

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Building Financial Models – Introduction

17th January 2012 by Admin under Business School, Finance, Small Business, Startup

In the first video session of our Financial Modeling training course we cover the following topics:

A quick review of the reasons why financial models are built and used. Principles for designing a great financial model How the financial modeling process may be applied to 3 very different situations. We look at retail spaces, a… Premium Courses Portfolio Risk Metrics – EXCEL Example$19.99Option Pricing using Binomial Trees$199.00Credit Process$11.99Setting Limits – EXCEL Example$19.49

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Can you write? We are hiring…

6th December 2011 by Admin under Quant Jobs, Startup

Can you write? We have readers (and hiring…)

When was the last time you went looking for a writing internship? The chance to work with a mentor who could help you find your true self? Define new boundaries, discover new domains..

Perhaps you are not the writing type? You are just looking for the editor who would help you take your craft to the next level? Help you get noticed and…

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