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Re:Ask HN: How to write a business plan for an Internet star... by tptacek on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:42PM (#425248)
Do you have any stories about how any of those business plans helped companies you were working on? I'd love to hear some.
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Re:Ask HN: How to write a business plan for an Internet star... by mixmax on Thursday January 08, 2009 @02:21PM (#425454)
They helped get funding for two companies I started :-)

I've found that it's really hard to write business plans for other people, and for companies you aren't directly involved in. It's probably a bit like when biz types ask a programmer to write what it says in their business plan - they haven't really thought about a lot of the underlying assumptions and how much work it is to do right. It works the other way around too.

I just wrote a somewhat related blogentry here: http://www.maximise.dk/blog/2009/01/business-plans-for-hacke...

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