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How to Survive Four Common Worst Case Scenarios

Startup Professionals Musings

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically.

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Four Common Startup Issues Which Threaten Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically.

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Worst Case Survival Guide for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Add an advisory board or experienced mentor to reality-check your financial projections, timeframes, and milestones before you publish them. Make it clear that you intend to re-forecast your plan every three months, and communicate changes proudly to your team, rather than apologetically.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal the Organization, Communities or Associations they Belong to That Help Support Their Business

Hearpreneur

You can also find financial forecast discussions between the experts analyzing the pros and cons precisely. Vistage is an organization that focuses on CEO and executive mentoring, leadership training, and growth. There are specific fields as subgroups narrowing down the members to connect better.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

Perhaps the solution to the “punt on the topic&# is to try to get a marketer who has a feel for the “Market Type/Positioning&# question on a startup’s advisory board once the Discovery data is in. As for #3. I agree completely. That’s exactly the point I was trying to make (perhaps badly) with the post.