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 Business Model + Nashville
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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND MARCH 28, 2011 Business Model Demands Patience Author and entrepreneur Steve Blank describes the business start-up process as having two phases. It eventually leads to a business model that can be used to build a sustainable venture. Nashville-based Aloompa is a great example of a business that's taking its time to get things right. Be patient. | THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND NOVEMBER 22, 2010 Engage with Customers to Shape Business Model When launching a new business, relying too heavily on the details of your business plan can actually lead to failure. Entrepreneurs need to spend much less time at their computer imagining their new business and more time out engaging with real, live customers. Use real customers to test the assumptions of your business model. | | | | | |
| THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND FEBRUARY 29, 2012 When Lightening Strikes For some businesses it is getting the one big customer. If the big break is what pushes your business forward to success. Business on Main has a video about a chocolate maker who got national attention for one particular recipe for beer infused chocolates. Most entrepreneurs dream of that one big break. | | THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND JANUARY 30, 2012 Avoid the Backward Start-up The problem is that many of these entrepreneurs have gotten the design of their business models backwards. Starting a business by trying to find a market for an already developed product usually leads to a long and often futile launch of the new venture. "I've developed this really cool product and I have applied for a patent." | | | | | | | | |
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THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND | MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011 Bringing Values into Vision
Many entrepreneurs talk about integrating their values into the vision for a new business. But some take it one step further and actually build a business model based on their values. is a Nashville-based startup that is integrating the founders' commitment to the environment and the community into the mission of their company. MORE >> -
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND | TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 2010 Be Prepared
While we survived this double whammy, many small businesses did not. Ever since then I have tried to warn small business owners about the need to prepare for disasters. Having cash reserves allows businesses to make it through the initial economic paralysis of a major event. One business owner. models going forward. MORE >> -
 Fast Growth in a Slow Economy: 5 Case Studies
Yet the five business owners profiled in the pages that follow managed to turn a deep recession into their best years yet. The CEO of Allen Printing in Nashville is talking about his customers, and he learned his lesson the hard way in 2010, shortly after the 85-year-old business filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And boldly. MORE >> -
INFOCHACHKIE.COM | SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2011 Beware The Consultant
There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. The relative value of the consultant’s impact upon the client’s business is usually not the consultant’s primary consideration when evaluating whether or not to accept a particular engagement. About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? RSS Feed. MORE >> -
THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND | TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 2010  Fresh Start
Soon came the loss of my father to a stroke, which happened at the same time as our daughter and her husband had been flooded out of their home in the Great Nashville Flood of 2010. Unlike many of my colleague around the country, I have not completely abandoned the good old business plan. am ready for a fresh start. MORE >>
- Let Nature take its Course THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND | SATURDAY, JULY 3, 2010
- Finding Money in the 2010's THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MIND | MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2010
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