{"id":6241,"date":"2015-02-18T08:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2015-02-18T08:59:57","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:59:57","slug":"opportunity-strategy-execution-and-reward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6241","title":{"rendered":"Opportunity, Strategy, Execution, and Reward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/twothirdsdone.com\/2015\/02\/15\/how-i-evaluate-early-stage-companies\/\">Avram Miller<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This post is about how I evaluate early stage venture businesses. Anyone that is interested in getting my help and\/or investment must follow a specific format when presenting to me (of course I make exceptions). Not only is it helpful to me in terms of understanding the business proposed, but I have found that it becomes very helpful to those seeking my advice. I make them break down their business into four parts \u2013 Opportunity, Strategy, Execution, and Reward. They have to convince me about the merit of each section before proceeding to the next. For instance, if I do not believe in the opportunity, I am not really interested in the strategy. Many entrepreneurs actually have trouble distinguishing between these sections.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Many potential investors in early-stage companies will take a different approach, clearly my approach is not the only one or even the best one.   It has served me well and I have the track record to prove it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avram Miller: This post is about how I evaluate early stage venture businesses. Anyone that is interested in getting my help and\/or investment must follow a specific format when presenting to me (of course I make exceptions). Not only is it helpful to me in terms of understanding the business proposed, but I have found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6242,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}