The Getaway Car Just Left

The Apply to Present deadline for the Angel Capital Summit has come and gone. This unique opportunity to benchmark your business (it only takes twenty minutes to complete)and obtain real-time feedback (you receive your results back in seconds after hitting the submit button) on the health of your business FREE has expired.

Yep, the Benchmark Survey and the business intelligence that it provides to Entrepreneurs and Investors is extremely valuable. And it hasn't cost anyone any money yet. Except for the founders, obviously. In fact it may actually save people (investors) a lot of money. But as of today, there's a price tag on the product.

Isn't technology great? Isn't standards-based benchmarking beneficial to so many? Isn't web-based anything terrific?! Easy access from the convenience of your own home or office. Did I mention that the Benchmark Survey is a web-based, standards-based business survey that can give you immediate insight into the health of your business or concept? It is.

Think of it, you go to see a doctor only when you feel you are becoming ill or you are already ill. And if you're like me, you go only because the *sickness* has outlasted your will to live or your spouse's tolerance. By the time I actually go see a doctor, I know the diagnosis. Of course I'm sick! I don't need medication to cure, I want something to end it...all. So as a result, I don't see a doctor regularly for a check up. I only go when the end is near.

But what if I could get an online, unobtrusive diagnosis of my current health status against the benchmarked *success path* of other healthy individuals my age? From my home or office. When I (think) I am well or when I am sick. Whenever I wanted? And within minutes get a snapshot view of my health and, if needed, make any changes that could improve the immediate health of my body or make life-expectancy improvements as I desired.

That's what the Benchmark Survey does for your business' health or even its life expectancy. The Benchmark Survey, developed over the past three years by Entrepreneurial Standards Forum, was made available to the Angel Capital Summit entrepreneur applicants for the last few months free. And many entrepreneurs gained valuable insight about their business or concept very quickly...and relatively painlessly and gained the opportunity to improve their business vision immediately. As a result, they may have increased their chances of obtaining the capital they seek to see their vision come to fruition.

For these entrepreneurs, so much hangs in the balance. What a wonderful opportunity to get so much...for so little. Some would say that's highway robbery! But that getaway car just left. The Benchmark Survey still provides great value, just at a higher price.