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5 Lessons Learned Launching a Startup With No Plan, No Cash, and No MBA

Up and Running

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. We didn’t know anything about small business accounting or finance. We didn’t even know how to write a business plan. We’d never hired anyone.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

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Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Reply What To Do When There’s No Venture Capital « Web Startup Help says: January 13, 2009 at 10:42 pm [.] Blog at WordPress.com.

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30 tips for avoiding startup failure, from successful founders

The Next Web

While you are working away on your business plan, looking for ways to raise capital, finding the right people to hire, etc., I love these sites: Hacker News for startup/entrepreneurial advice, TechCrunch and The Next Web for keeping up with trends, [and] Inbound.org for SEO/marketing.”. Tough, but rewarding work.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Ability to prioritise effectively in the face of business uncertainty.

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Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition | For Entrepreneurs

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When it does happen, the associated businesses are usually extremely attractive, provided they have a way to monetize their customers. Far more common is a need to acquire customers through a series of steps like SEO, SEM, PR, Social Marketing, direct sales, channel sales, etc. that will cost the company significant amounts of money.

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Guest post round-up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

it was edited to "10 Secrets to More Magnetic Copy," but that's OK, they were on a "magnetic copy" series binge at the time, and it made the "Best of Copyblogger 2009" list. Well, that was my title. What was the trick to writing about writing in a fresh way? The format was self-referential, e.g. using repetition when describing repetition.

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Landing Pages That Convert

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Again, on our call I talked about the company I helped with their business plan template marketing. The “finished story” here wasn’t the obvious – a finished business plan. It was having raised money successfully with the polished and professional business plan. It was farther removed than that.

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