Broadcast Dates: Feb. 5, 2009, 7:30 p.m.; Feb. 8, 2009, 7:30 a.m.; Feb. 9, 2009, 4:30 a.m.
Big news for entrepreneurs: Don’t waste your time on a business plan.
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Upwith the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Dr. Brent Goldfarbtalks about his new research that finds the way a business plan is written has no bearing on whether a company receives funding.
Goldfarb, assistant professor of management and entrepreneurship, worked with David Kirsch, an associate professor in the same field at Smith, to study the business plans of more than 700 dot-com companies from the late-1990s to early-2000s boom period. Kirsch keeps records from dot-coms in his Business Plan Archive, a historical preservation project with the Library of Congress. They compared the companies’ business plans with venture capital funding decisions.
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