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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Do they perceive enough value to pay prices that create for you a profit margin that matches your business model?

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

With an out-of-this-world business plan. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. A Business Plan Frozen in Time. This business plan was a static document.