David E. Gumpert

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Burn Your Business Plan! What Investors Really Want from Entrepreneurs

This provocative view of the business startup process takes issue with the conventional wisdom that preparing a detailed business plan is a prerequisite to obtaining investment financing. It provides a new paradigm for attracting investment, as well as guidance for alternative approaches to impressing investors.


Selected Works

A Research Paper
Do Business Plans Matter? How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Entrepreneurs for Investment
Presented by David E. Gumpert and Julian Lange, Babson associate professor of entrepreneurship, at June 2003 Babson Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conference
An Inc. Book
How to Really Start Your Own Business (4th Edition)
The 4th Edition of This Classic Is Back
For Entrepreneurs



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