Resources

General Resources

• Market Research Guide
• Reading List
• Global Startup Workshop

Articles & Notes by Organizers & Judges

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

Founders' Workshop Presentations

• 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:

A selection of Mr. Joe Hadzima's columns for the Boston Business Journal are also available.

Examples:

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)