If someone asks for a business plan, can you afford not to have one? A good business starts with a good business plan because it proves to others, and yourself, that you can organize and articulate your ideas in writing. This is why Greg Straus feels founders should plan more than a business model canvas. Here’s 6 tips on how to move forward.
More than 500 student teams are expected to complete at the 2016 New York Business Plan Competition in April. Here’s advice from startup investor Les Neumann of iCANny on how to prepare an “award winning” pitch. The deadline to enter the competition is March 25. Last year’s grand prize winner was Uma Bioseed.
Here is a collection of press release on Upstate Venture Connect (UVC.org) news and events from 2015.
Here is a list of the media coverage on Upstate Venture Connect (UVC.org) for the year 2015.
Since graduating from the StartFast Accelerator, SmartyPans has attracted a lot of global attention. Most recently the brother-sister duo have been asked to demo at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas. In conjunction with the event, you can now vote for SmartyPans to win Tech.Co’s Startup of the Year Competition! Show your #StartUNY support by voting online before January 5.
Do you know how important your customers are to your business? Yes, they help pay the bills but what else to they provide? To my business, they’re some of the most important people in our lives. They’re the reason we exist and continue to do the great things we love doing. As entrepreneurs our goal is to delight our customers as we help solve their problems.
Interviewed by E. Patrice Perkins at the December edition of Startup Grind Albany, Ecovative Cofounder and CEO Eban Bayer discussed the challenges and satisfactions of being an entrepreneur and provided a look into the future of biological technology.
In early 2010, Martin Babinec and Nasir Ali launched a 501c3 non-profit with the ambitious vision of connecting entrepreneurs across Upstate NY. The slideshow enclosed captures highlights of UVC’s journey and shows how Upstate founders have a more supportive environment in which to grow.
The Finger Lakes, Southern Tier and Central New York were the communities chosen for the UIR “Best Plan Awardees.” These regions will now receive $500 million each over the next five years in $100 million increments to help transform their local economies.
Early in their strategizing, Worgan and Florence surveyed Skidmore students on clothing needs and preferences. Their key discovery: The lives of American college students today are so hectic and fast-paced that they have time only for low-maintenance clothes they can just throw on – but they still want to look stylish and fashionable.
