Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2020

There’s a great amount of uncertainty, people losing their jobs, and a direct hit on cash flows that can place businesses in dire straights. Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Here, we’ll provide tips on crafting a workforce planning model for your organization and an overview of some established workforce planning models for your nonprofit to consider. What Is a Workforce Planning Model? Succession management. Crafting the Right Workforce Planning Model. Employee development.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Once you consider these factors, then it’s time to sit down and write your business plan. You should go into this thinking about your business plan as a living document, not something you do once and then file away forever. Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Usually, a Lean Plan will include your “pitch”—an overview of your strategy, tactics, and business model, and a schedule of who is doing what and when—as well as some core financials like a sales forecast, an expense budget, and a cash flow forecast. Free One-Page Business Pitch Template.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

But the process of putting together a business plan will ensure that you’ve thought through every aspect of your business and you’re ready to answer any questions that come up during the fundraising process. Why do investors want to see a business plan? The business plan document itself isn’t what’s important to investors.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The business plan, in its many different formats, can be used for a variety of purposes, including validating an idea, getting funded, and managing a business successfully. If investors request a traditional plan, you will want to follow the standard business plan outline below. Build a sales forecast.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Here’s an attempt to put this all in context.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

We’re looking at our lean business planning is about strategy, tactics, concrete specifics including milestones, metrics, tasks and schedule, and essential numbers to run a business, all of which lead to managing cash flow. That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

The official Standards are more granular, and are the equivalent of programming style: a set of standard methods which help you create an easy-to-use and self-documenting model. HOW TO MAKE THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT READABLE. I think far too few people take advantage of styles in both text documents and spreadsheets.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! People often ask us for a list of steps they can use to start their own business. From business type to business model to physical location, there are so many variables! Target Market.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2017

You want to review all the different components of your business model. This description should basically be an elevator pitch for potential partners and business investors to get excited about what you’re offering and your unique location, philosophy, and approach. What is your business model? Legal documents.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Also, creating a quick lean financial forecast will help ensure your business idea is viable and financially sound. Be online: Consider your online domain name , especially if being found online is a key part of your business model. An accountant with a mind for Strategic Advisory services can help with that, too. .

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

A long-term business plan like this is different from a traditional business plan in that it’s lighter on the details and more focused on your strategic direction. It has less focus on financial forecasting and a greater focus on the big picture. It’s also the easiest to update and share with business partners.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2018

One of the most important tasks that an accountant plays in an early-stage company is to help put together the financial projections which will serve as the basis for the business model. cash management), or even determining the return on marketing activities (e.g. management reporting).

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. Financial, technical and operational plans and forecasts of all kinds (trade secret).

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Up and Running

MARCH 4, 2022

Having a solid business plan can help you successfully start, manage, and grow your business. But what are the qualities that make a business plan more than a document? What does it take to write a strong business plan? What are the characteristics of a great business plan? Does everything make sense?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

So, it’s time to fix the traditional business plan and replace it with a planning process that works. Lean Planning is a faster and better business plan solution. Lean Planning is a 4-step process that helps you discover a business model that works and manage a company successfully. Your business strategy.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Your business model has to truly be similar to the company you are referencing. If you aren’t solving some problem in the world, you are going to have a long uphill climb with your business. Investors will expect to see your sales forecast, profit and loss statement, and cash flow forecast for at least three years.

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Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

But whether you’re thinking of starting a business, expanding your current business, or just want to understand your current business better, there are a few key financial items that you should definitely include: Profit and loss statement. Sales forecast. and maybe some business ratios and/or a break-even analysis.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning is a set of tools for discovering a business model that works, building an action plan to test your assumptions, creating financial models and a plan for a viable business, and tracking your performance so you can adjust your plan on the fly, quickly and easily. Do startups have a manual?

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Management Team. Your business plan isn’t complete without a financial forecast. Ideally, the executive summary can act as a stand-alone document that covers the highlights of your detailed plan. In fact, it’s very common for investors to ask for only the executive summary when they are evaluating your business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I started with some basic theory: that a startup is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty; that traditional management techniques rooted in forecasting and planning would not work well in the face of that uncertainty. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when). Schedule.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model. Determining how much money to ask for.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Good investors use the valuation discussions to gauge the business savvy of the management team and to understand their ability to appreciate and deal with economic market forces that set values.   You can vary both valuation and term-sheet assumptions (in the gray boxes) to assess the impact on the values of the business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Whichever type of plan you choose, remember that a business plan is a living document. Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Be specific.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. As with anything, learning to manage, learning to be the boss and learning to run a business, are just things that happen over time and with practice.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

They made other assumptions about the type of sales channel, partnerships and revenue model they would need. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

However, the traditional business plan took too long to write, often wasn’t read by anyone outside the business, and wasn’t used properly to start, grow, and manage businesses. We proposed Lean Planning as the next step in business planning. At the time, we used Business Plan Pro and Basecamp for this.

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Up and Running

MARCH 17, 2020

The one page business plan is a simplified version of traditional operational plans that focuses on the core aspects of your business. While it may be a shorter business plan, it still follows the structure of a standard business plan template and serves as a beefed-up pitch document. .

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2018

You’ll be looking for both investors and the right talent on your management team to drive growth. Every successful small business goes through four stages during its entire existence: Existence : expanding from pilot production to broad-scale production. Survival : generating enough cash flow to stay in business.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Our business model was Pinterest. It goes to show you that the business model was good but we just … We’re not the right team. I’ve done this with lots of founders and we usually glaringly see skills missing like financial management or HR managements or digital marketing or whatever those things are.

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Transformify

JUNE 6, 2019

More than a year was needed to have all process and project documentation optimized and organized so they were simple and intuitive for the team to follow. Selecting a good project management software is the first step followed by endless reviews and continuous improvement as the organization grows. It was not enough, though.

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