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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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No credit? Big problem. Here are 7 steps to build your startup’s business credit

The Next Web

In the startup world, venture capital is often viewed as the penultimate goal, yet for many startups bootstrapping is often the reality. For this reason, many small business owners lean on their personal credit to fund their business. And self-financing puts the emphasis on business credit. Get a Tax ID Number (EIN).

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Screw Traffic – Show Me The Money

ConversionXL

Because I know when I get home after a hard day’s work I like to have a glass of wine or 6, lean back and marvel at my amazing traffic trends report. Hi I’m @thedannorris , the broke bootstrapped founder of Informly , a dashboard of stats that you (yes you) can understand. We all do it. Featured image credit.

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