Where to Startup
Investor Perspective and Business Planning
for the Alaska Entrepreneur, Innovator and Dreamer
This segment discusses the Investor perspective and business planning, including angel investors, what investors are looking for in entrepreneurs, pitching your idea and the purpose of a business plan.
Where To Startup videos
Speaker:
Eric McCallum, President of Arctic Wire Rope & Supply
Topics:
- What is an angel investor?
- What do you look for in an entrepreneur? [02:35]
- Advice on pitching your idea. [05:08]
- What advice do you have for entrepreneurs in rural Alaska? [07:11]
- What’s the purpose of a business plan? [10:42]
Additional Resources:
- What Color Is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters & Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles
- U.S. Small Business Administration: Build Your Business Plan
- Alaska Small Business Development Center: Tools – Business Plan
- Sequoia Capital: Writing a Business Plan
- Entrepreneur.com: Business Plan Forms & Templates
- Business News Daily: 8 Free Business Plan Templates for Startups
- Cayenne Consulting: Business Plan Mistakes
- Alaska Business Plan Competition
- Aleutian Marketplace
- North Slope Marketplace
- ASHOKA: Innovators for the Public
- The Awesome Foundation: Alaska
- 49th State Angel Fund
- Arctic Wire Rope & Supply
- Alaska Division of Economic Development
- Alaska Small Business Development Center
- U.S. Small Business Administration
- World Trade Center Alaska
- Anchorage Economic Development Corporation
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