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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. If your target market is everybody in the United States, it’s really difficult to forecast. That is an old-school plan.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. It is interesting to note that some advocates of lean management and accounting (including Waddell and Bodek in *The Rebirth of American Industry*) have a strong dislike of Sloan/Brown management cost accounting. There’s the Alfred P.

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

It ended up losing a million dollars in the first year, and they were on the brink of bankruptcy and shutting it down because it just … The model just didn’t work. Jeff Goins: Yes, so first of all I think that our … At least in the United States our education system is in need of an overhaul. They just couldn’t get it to work.

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