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Plan Your Small-Business Startup at TheIdeaStartup
from Rick Broida, bnet.com
September 17, 2010
Every business begins with an idea. And every idea needs to be fleshed out into a business plan. TheIdeaStartup offers specialized collaboration tools to help you develop that plan, complete with financial projections and intellectual-property security.
Arguably the toughest part of the process is actually writing the business plan. TheIdeaStartup (TIS) provides a robust plan-builder that walks you through each section, from Executive Summary to Marketing Plan to Revenue Summary. It includes tips and examples, saves previous versions of your content, and even spell-checks your work.
The Idea Startup: Collaborate on Planning Business Ideas
from Thursday Bram, GigaOM
September 15, 2010
There are plenty of apps that make collaboration a lot easier — at least once you’ve figured out what your actual project is going to be. But if you’re still in the kicking-around-ideas stage of planning your organization you could probably do with a specialized tool. The Idea Startup fulfills that need by offering collaborative tools geared specifically towards planning a startup. It has built-in features for sharing ideas during the business plan development phase, pulling together financial projections and sharing information in real time.
MIT $100k Letter of Recommendation
from Miro Kazakoff, MIT $100k Business Plan Competition
July 19, 2010
The IdeaStartup provided the MIT $100K Business Plan Competition with all of our submission and judging infrastructure. Their core platform also allowed us to provide important resources to contestants and further the mission of the contest.
Across three contest, six rounds of submissions, 450 entries and over 2,000 pages of business plans, we used The IdeaStartup to provide the submission interface for contestants; validate that the length and formatting of entries complied with contest rules; assemble the judging packets; and host the entries for download by judges. For the first time, we avoided emailing massive files to each judge. The whole platform cut our submission turnaround time by 75%.
Customers
MIT Sloan
The MIT Sloan School of Management, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of the world’s leading business schools. Hundreds of graduate students have been using TheIdeaStartup as part of their courses since January, 2009.
MIT Sloan was our charter beta customer and feedback from students has been invaluable in developing TheIdeaStartup.
Northeastern University
Students in the College of Business Administration at Northeastern University have been using TheIdeaStartup to help them write business plans in courses since September, 2009.
MIT $100k Business Plan Competition
TheIdeaStartup provides the $100k with their submission providing access to business planning tools to participants in the competitions.
TheIdeaStartup and the MIT$100k have been working together since September, 2009. We’re happy to be the first system the $100k has decided to use for a second year!
SMBs and Entrepreneurs Around the World
TheIdeaStartup is used by small to medium sized companies from Texas to Germany to develop business plans for strategic shifts and raising capital.
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