Deep dive in b plans of successful startups

1. Deep dive in B-Plans of
Successful Startups
Sachin Bhide, PhD
Founder & Strategy Designer
Eha Management Consultancy
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2. Let’s Deep Dive
1. Recreational Diving – Stories
2. Professional Diving – Model
3. Ultra deep Diving – Detailing
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3. Guess the Start-up
• Cofounders were teachers
• Had no money for registration
• Distributed products for free in first three
years
• Media played key role in growth
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4. 1. Social Service
2. Manufacturing, Distribution, Events
3. Compete with established brands with
deep pockets
4. Publicist & Operations expertise
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5. Guess the Start-up
• Founder rejected by leading brands for
employment
• Worked as guide to learn English
• Founded by 18 founders
• Leading founder – a teacher
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6. 1. Facilitating exports
2. Infrastructure, people, sales
3. Highly regulated
4. Will power, funding, persistence
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7. Guess the Start-up
• Investor developed business plan &
guided founder
• Founders were technologist & marketer
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8. 1. World’s best personal computer
2. Electronics, design, commercializing
3. Early stage, deep pocket competitors,
undeveloped components
4. Passion, quality, smart public relations
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9. Guess the Start-up
• Founder earlier worked in Investment
Bank
• Go the idea for start-up based on
technology growth data
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10. 1. Customer centric e-commerce
2. Technology, selling, packaging
3. Successful competitors, underdeveloped
technology, new platform
4. Vision, solution orientation, frugality
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11. Guess the Start-ups
• Founder - Avid book reader
• Invested lot of self earned money in
business
• Path breaking startups
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12. 1. Reimagining the industry
2. R&D, sourcing, marketing
3. Highly established competitors,
challenging to get people with right skills,
changing customer expectations
4. Unique design, focus, patience
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13. Business Planning Villains
• Extremely complex models
• Impossible to memories Steps
• Habit of worshiping only Foreign Experts
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14. Eha Reinvents Business Planning

15. Effective Business Plan
1. Objective
2. Team
3. Funding
4. Functional
5. Operational
6. Offerings
7. Business
Environment
8. Infrastructure
9. Projects
10.Budget
11.Calendar
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16. Stop Diving & start planning :-)
1. Remember the Stories
2. Remember the Business Planning Model
3. Prepare your Detailed plan
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17. “Failure is compulsory, success
is optional”
– Sachin Bhide, PhD
+919823038828
sachin@ehamanagementconsultancy.com
http://goo.gl/m6GFJ3
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