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5 Key Tests When Assessing Your Business Idea

YoungUpstarts

by Patrick Henry, author of “ Plan Commit Win: 90 Days to Creating a Fundable Startup “ What makes one idea good, and another one bad, from a business perspective? In creating a successful business, it is important that you assess your business idea in terms of its ability to make money. Why is growth so important?

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Two Rules - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

One big example of this is boards of advisers, a real important concept for almost every entrepreneurial business.    I am constantly impressed by the high quality of members of advisory boards on opportunities I get to see.  April 2013. January 2013.   Think about doing the same.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on June 12, 2013. At data.world, for example, I’ll never forget us meeting with Dean Allemang, co-author of Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist , and him validating both our platform approach and business model. And Dean became our first Advisory Board member of many.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

This allowed us to emphasize how to differentiate a technical spec from a value proposition and expand on the parts of the business model that are unique for science and engineering startups. 2013 Instructors : Ann Miura-ko, Jon Feiber. Lead TA : Thomas Haymore, TA’s: Felix Huber, Christina Cacioppo.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

We’ve also built a large Advisory Board, from DJ Patil to Kelly Wright. This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on April 18, 2013, and I wove together three related but seemingly distinct threads: Steve Jobs, our founding fathers, and the Israel’s DNA. At data.world, we’ve done our best to do the same.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). An additional list of business resources for startups is available here. Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list.