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About Executive Summary Submission
Components of a Sample Executive Summary
I. Business Overview
- Company description and business model
- Value proposition- financial
- Value proposition- social or environmental
- Vision
- Current status
II. The Market Opportunity (the problem, the pain)
- Why is this such a great idea? Describe the pain, define the problem
- Competitive analysis (how the problem is not being solved by them)
III. Market Solution
- Product or service
- How you will remove the pain, solve the problem
- Unfair competitive advantages, Ability to create barriers to entry
IV. The Market
- Identification of Customer
- Industry analysis and forecast
Get analogies (see EDGAR on the web www.freedgar.gov. Find a company in a similar space or with similar model and compare their growth rate, etc. to yours.)
V. Management Team
- Founders and key management
- Industry experience, Education
- Board of advisors (Critical. Can augment team experience if needed)
- Optional: Board of directors (3 required by law, usually not until first round of institutional funding in place)
VI. Financial and Social Impact Summary
Narrative overview of financial summary
- Outline overall financial model with basic projections
- Discuss assumptions and capital requirements
Narrative overview of social / environmental impact summary
- Framework by which you are assessing your impact (see examples elsewhere on the
Competition website)
- Basic projections; Discuss assumptions and outcome measurements
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