Burke Franklin

How I learned to write a business plan.
Why mine are different and better.
And now it’s software!

Angel Investors, Business Plan, Entrepreneurship, Raising Capital, Venture Capital, writing a business plan

Have you heard that investors don’t read business plans? Not true. Before they’re going to click OK on a wire transfer of $50,000 to $50,000,000, they’ll have a lot of questions. Wouldn’t you?!? Your business plan is your proxy in front of many supporting characters—with specialties, expertise, biases, perspectives, contacts, money… It’s like a movie…

language of leadership keynote

How conscious choices of words influence successful leadership

Management, Marketing, writing a business plan

What we say creates pictures and emotions in our audiences. Are we motivating or scaring them? Self-defeating words, phrases and concepts derail our presentations to customers, investors, employees and each other! The dangers of double-negatives and other dumb things we say and how they create our world… Click to watch this brief TED talk-like video.