Two of the following elements need to be ready:
- a core team,
- directly relevant track record,
- business ideas close to full business plan but changeable,
- other potential investors,
- an identifiable talent pool,
- an emerging market,
- an existing mature market attacked by disruptive technology and/or business model,
- a directly relevant following numbers in hundreds (or thousands depending on industry),
- a web of key influencer and decision makers in the targeted. markets
- similar start-ups
