The tenth episode of Angel Impact is the second part of a series about the Opportunity Analysis (OA) that features prominently in the WRBA's extensive and industry-leading due diligence process.  This episode, perhaps more than any other before now, captures the essence of the WRBA.  

In this episode you will learn about:

1. The fact that opportunity analysis is one component the Planned Innovation framework used to evaluate a business in its entirety

2. How opportunity analysis helps to evaluate the effectiveness of strategic objectives so that leadership teams know whether to stay their course or pivot

3. How the opportunity analysis shaped by Planned Innovation helped Leon’s team at Dow-Corning to raise the success rate of new opportunities added to the company from 15% to 95% and how Jeff and Leon apply that same formula for success to the companies in which they invest and maximize strategic decisions

4. Some detailed nuts and bolts about segmenting product markets by level of value

5. How the WRBA consults with the best industry experts for distilled advice to help them evaluate opportunities in any given field as opposed to relying on a  less efficient statistical analysis approach

6. Why opportunity analysis IS the scientific method in action, and applied with extreme objectivity to business development

7. How the WRBA uses Planned Innovation to increase the average success of angel investment ventures and avoid gratuitous expenditure of resources on unnecessary R&D

8. How an opportunity analysis is often the best thing angels can invest in, and why it is the closest we can come to running a simulation in the marketplace before actually building a venture

9. Why opportunity analysis is still a well-kept secret in the world of business and why more entrepreneurs need to know about it

10. What most entrepreneurs don’t understand about the businesses they conceive and how they would benefit from applying the scientific method to their thinking

11. Why entrepreneurs need to be coachable and receptive to advice in order to benefit from the objectivity offered by an opportunity analysis

12. Why the WRBA prefers to use independent, third party consultants to perform their opportunity analysis

13. The very precise way Planned Innovation Opportunity Analysis helps the WRBA to quantify opportunities in order to determine their worthiness for angel investment

14. How truly understanding and applying the results of an Opportunity Analysis helps the WRBA to guide and shape their investment companies in real time to make them even more successful in the marketplace and profitable for investors

15. Why all of this is the very essence of the WRBA’s distinction in the world of angel investment

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