Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups.

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Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2010

And they offer one-on-one counseling, workshops and classes–a lot of good front-lines resources to help real people manage real businesses. For a class on bookkeeping, marketing, business planning, getting financed, call your nearest SBDC. for $49-$99.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2012

“your business plan cannot be secret anymore.” This is what the internet looked like in 1995. The Top Five Career Regrets | Daniel Gulati-Harvard Business Review - [link]. Facebook Could Now Advertise To Children, Thanks To Updated Federal Privacy Rules – [link]. ” – [link]. Feeling Old?

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. As I’ve spent the last few months doing some heavy learning on all that is ‘business’, I’ve come to realize the value of having a business plan. For anyone looking to write a business plan this really is the most user-friendly software you’ll find.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Make sure you and your IT firm share a clear understanding of the business problem you want technology to solve. Acknowledge that you can’t see every possible detail in advance, and plan for contingencies. Know that it is a natural course of events for your business plan, and therefore your requirements, to evolve.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. According to the site, there are nearly 6,000 courses covering topics in business, technology, and creative skills. This course provides a step-by-step guide to getting anything to catch on.” ” Lynda.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. This is the youngest demographic, people born after 1995, who are sought-after by all new businesses. This buys you time and credibility with investors, until the big bet really starts to pay off.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2011

In the ’80s, Cuban worked as a salesman at a computer store, but found himself more interested in working on computers and developing business plans rather than manning a cash register and sweeping the floors. Mark Cuban wasn’t always a successful Internet mogul and NBA owner. Michael Bloomberg.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. According to the site, there are nearly 6,000 courses covering topics in business, technology, and creative skills. This course provides a step-by-step guide to getting anything to catch on.” ” Lynda.com.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2012

Bplans.com membership surpassed 100,000 members this week, just three months after the business planning and startup resource site launched a membership network in October. The most prevalent categorization of business was “start-up” and the average number of workers employed (or planned to be employed) was 1-5.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2014

According to the Small Business Administration , 52 percent of all businesses are home-based, and that number has steadily increased in recent years. Keith Evans, a Florida-based entrepreneur, is part of that statistic, although he jumped on the home-business bandwagon back in 1995.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Oregon has been operating an SEA program since 1995, and a survey shows nearly half of its program’s participants have created an average of 3.12 You can’t just say you’re starting a business to qualify for the SEA program. There’s more. SEA programs, says Senator Wyden, turn unemployment insurance into “job multipliers.”.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

A new study by CT Corporation shows that 61 percent of recent college grads want to start their own business, 45 percent believe that it is likely they will start a business, and 51 percent say starting their own business will in the long-term provide greater security than a job with an existing company.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I will continue to do my monthly business planning column as the business planning coach at entrepreneur.com. In fact, my most recent column here, Let Your Story Frame Your Business Plan , has been getting a lot of play since it came out last week. Please click this link to go there and resubscribe.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I’m will continue to do my monthly business planning column as the business planning coach at entrepreneur.com. In fact, my most recent column there, Let Your Story Frame Your Business Plan , has been getting a lot of play since it came out last week. You might like that one. You might like that one.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

This comes to mind because I’m traveling this week to attend the annual conference of the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) in San Antonio, Texas. I’ve been a regular at the conference since 1995. That happens tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the conference in San Antonio.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

When I joined the venture-backed Internet start-up Open Market in the spring of 1995, I was one of only a handful of graduates that joined a start-up out of business school (at a fraction of the salary of my classmates, I might add!). Today, the entrepreneurship department is the largest department at HBS.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember my first business plan. Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 4, 2011

I remember my first business plan. Well, to be honest, it wasn’t much of a business plan, because in 1995, I knew next to nothing about ‘business’ After reading an article about how critical it was to have one, I put pen to paper and jotted down some notes to myself.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of what you plan to do. But many will want a copy of your business plan, if only toremind themselves what they invested in. Our angels asked for one, and looking back, Im amazed how muchworry it caused me.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Wikipedia gives the impact on financial bubbles as an example: “The Dot-com bubble, also knowns as Internet bubble, referenced the speculative investment bubble that was created around new internet startup companies between the years 1995-2000.

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