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ENTRE 440/540 – Business Plan Practicum
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ENTRE 440-540AB Business Plan Practicum
“On-ramp to the 2014 U.W. Business Plan Competition”
Tom Eckmann 206-441-2067
Teckmann@UW.edu
Welcome!
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January 8 “Is entrepreneurship for you?” and “Good business ideas”
Business models and financial projections
Legal considerations for startups
Insights from past BPC participants
Bootstrapping a startup
Raising investor capital
Business planning and risk assessment
Markets, competition and “uniqueness”
Lean Startup, library resources, and “networking night”
Course Journey
January 15
January 22
January 29
February 5
February 12
February 19
February 26
March 5
March 12 Dreaming Big! (who says the sky’s the limit?)
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Business Models and Financial Projections
What is a business model?
Depiction of how company creates, delivers and captures value
How the business makes money!
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Business Models and Financial Projections
Business model = pro-forma financial projections covering a 3-5 year planning horizon
• Profit and Loss Statement - “Bottoms up”
• Forecast sales (units and dollars) • Pricing assumptions
• Cost of goods or sales • Cost assumptions
• Operating Expense • Staffing projections
• Balance Sheet (A/R, inventory, cash, financings, cap ex)
• Cash Flow
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Business Models and Financial Projections
Drives a discussion of:
Revenue sources and growth rates Cost drivers Sensitivity and risk factors (what if’s) Scalability analysis Investment requirements over time Critical success factors
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Business Models and Financial Projections
Business model communicates:
Major milestones Key assumptions and data sources When business breaks even (cash) and becomes a
“profit engine” Amount and use of capital needed to start and grow Expected return on investment
Today’s Agenda
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Guest Speakers
Jesse Proudman, founder, Blue Box Group
Adam Tratt, founder, Haiku Deck
Class discussion
Next Week
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Jesse Proudman
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Business Models
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Jesse Proudman
Who am I?
Self employed since I was 13…
Founded Blue Box from my Dorm
Room at UPS in ’03.
Bootstrapped Blue Box for 10
years.
Closed $4.3M Series A in Dec
’12. $14M Series B in Dec‘14.
Heavily Involved in Buerk Center
and UW BPC. Jones / Foster
Accelerator Mentor.
@blueboxjesse on Twitter
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What’s Blue Box?
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Private Cloud as a Service
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Operating Private Clouds with un-matched efficiency…
On-demand private cloud at scale
Platform Box Panel
Private Cloud Management Engine
Elastic Capacity Provisioning
CMDB, CRM, Support and Billing
OpenStack Lifecycle Management
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What’s OpenStack?
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Example of Business Models
Fee Based Models (Credit Card Processing)
Product Sales
Consulting Services
“The Ink-Jet Model”
Licensing Models
Multi-Level Marketing
Subscription Services (Recurring Revenue!)
More?
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Your Business Model
Is the numeric story of your business
Dynamic Living Spreadsheet
You should update it… Daily?
Weekly?
Monthly?
Any time you get new information?
Should be built using formulas and assumptions
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Accrual
vs.
Cash Basis
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Components of a Business Model
Revenue How will you make your money?
Cost of Sales How much does it cost you to deliver your
product?
Sales and Marketing How much does it cost to sell more of your
product?
G&A What are all the “other” expenses you have to
operate your business?
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Revenue
(How do you make your money)
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Revenue Examples
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Revenue Examples
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Cost of Sales
(How much does it
cost to make your product)
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Cost of Sales Examples
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Cost of Sales Examples
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SG&A
(Everything else)
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SG&A Examples
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SG&A Examples
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Concrete
examples
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Closing Thoughts
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Business Models
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Adam Tratt
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Business Model Recap
• Defines how venture makes money; indicator of viability
• Communications tool for team, investors and bankers
• Guide in decision making
Understand what’s important (business model drivers)
Focus time and resources on key leverage points
Pivot or persevere based on learning (Lean Principles)
Keiretsu Forum (Angel Events)
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Keiretsu Forum – Seattle Chapter Meeting Thursday, February 12th
(12:30 - 4 pm)
The forums will feature 4 start-up companies who have been carefully selected from our
screening processes with 25-minute presentations (with Q&A), plus 2-3 update presentations
from past presenting companies. Continental lunch and refreshments provided.
10 guest seats available – to register, email Teckmann@uw.edu If you register, you MUST attend!
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Wrap-up
Next Week: Legal Basics for Startups
Bill Bromfield, partner, Fenwick & West
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