The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Big data is a prominent subject for many businesses around the world, and for those of you who operate entirely online enterprises, studying statistics and numbers is perhaps even more important, and, can be convenient using online business education.

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Analytics Technical Review Social Media Software Review 175

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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Forecast Software Review Lean Finance 60

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

In many cases, your advisor will identify key employees and create a business plan to help you find a buyer and negotiate the best price possible. When selling your startup with a mergers and acquisitions advisor, it’s essential to identify the key employees who have made the most valuable contributions to the business.

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Merger Acquisition Due Diligence Valuation 131

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

First, understand your finances. Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. Your business also has fluctuating expenses. Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. Consequences of your plan.

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Forecast Early Stage Software Review Technical Review 77

Up and Running

JULY 3, 2014

Pick the one that works best for you, keeping in mind that you can shorten the analysis while keeping the major components of the plan intact. The back-of-the-napkin export business plan (suitable for born-global entrepreneurs). The traditional-export business plan. The Laurel export business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 244

Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. An entrepreneur can quantitatively test potential buyers’ real intentions and develop a genuine understanding their needs before building out the product (app). It’s hard to imagine product functionality. Priorities change.

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In a business, the health of the business is your boss.

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Cleveland Software Review Bandwidth Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. Every large company, whether it can articulate it or not, is executing a proven business model (s).

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

We had personally invested $70,000 of our own money at this point, and we were hoping to raise at least another $250,000 to help us hire a team, launch our company, and begin to build our product. The agreement seemed to have all the things business partners would need in order to professionally launch and run a company together (i.e.,

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business.

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Startup Forecast Lean Balance Sheet 114

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

These firms can provide various services, including financing and business advice. They can also help you develop your product and sales channels. This is usually done through a prototype , which shows the key characteristics of your product. You can also show how you plan to make money. Seed Rounds.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as they do, sometimes even unknowingly that beautiful dream of a business exit and financial windfall recedes depressingly into the sunset. Putting out there as to what our financial results will be , and why - in the form of well-documented and reasoned financial forecasts.

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Harvest IP Software Review Forecast 48

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Switch your attention from product development to sales.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Creating a Business Plan. Don’t create your business plan entirely from scratch. Once you’re in, huddle with mentors to refine your plan. Product Development. Your product might “sell itself,” but it still has to get into customers’ hands somehow.) They’re essential, in fact.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. love to find great products and services made by entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

It started with an entrepreneur with an idea for a new product or service gathering funds from personal savings, obtaining money from a friends and family round and soliciting help from anyone and everyone to get the idea off the ground. By Elton Rivas, co-founder of KYN. Starting a company a few years ago was a lonely enterprise.

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Cofounder Incubator Programming IPO 171

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Every day I become more aware of the importance of stories as the drivers of business planning and business success. Too often we think of business planning as full of arcane details, but the details mean nothing without the core stories. Here are three stories a business should never do without. .

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Business Plan Campaign Finance Product Development 86

Early Growth Financial Services

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

These misguided concerns are a time-suck and not productive. You don’t need to have financing to build a strong company, at least not in the early stages. Sure financing can help accelerate your time to market, focus on product development, and ability to execute to scale. But it’s honestly not a ticket to success.

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Early Stage Startup Finance Business Plan 53

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. How about your Marketing Plan ?

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) You take your product vision and get out of your building to turn your hypothesis into facts. Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program.

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Incubator New York City Venture Capital Startup 105

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Below are the milestones that you will need to achieve in order to attract seed investment from Angels: Business Plan. A major piece of the business plan will be your capitalization strategy demonstrating the milestone timeline discussed above as well as the effects of accomplished milestones on the company’s future valuation.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Seed Capital Advisory Board 55

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. No right or wrong answer here, but if this is your vision then it's important to consider when negotiating deal terms on earlier stage financing rounds. Seed Funding 3.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

Up and Running

MARCH 20, 2012

“My favorite part of owning my own business is being able to build and lead a team that works together to build great products that are solving problems in the marketplace. They were able to recruit a top-notch programmer, who got their core mobile product developed quickly.

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Oregon Chad United States Angel Investor 87

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Here are four critical business domains - financing, sales, organization design and goal setting where the high-flyers get it right: Financing. Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. For as long as they are in business. read more.

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SCRUM Finance Aggregator Acquisition 48

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Whether that advice and assistance pertains to marketing, sales, branding, IT, new product development, finance, company culture, strategy, exit planning, and everything and anything in between. Looking for Olympic-Level Performance in Your Business? Tired of competing hard and long but just not winning?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2014

When you’re a small business owner, it’s imperative to take on a lot of the tasks yourself, especially in the early stages of running a business. How many of us have found ourselves needing to do a little bit of finance, customer service, marketing or product development at any given point?

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Small Business Early Stage Hiring Stock 76

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Business planning. To start your business, you’ll need a sound business plan. But here at Bplans, we make an effort to provide entrepreneurs with the resources they need to start and run successful businesses. As you plan your business, you’ll also want to plan an operational strategy.

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Entrepreneur Small Business Administration SBA Pennsylvania 60

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

What really constitutes product/market fit? The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched. It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. But the book is much more than just stories.

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Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

AND it was probably the most productive two hours any of us had all year. And more excitedly, through the development of a new product with a market potential many times greater than the company’s current core offering. by more "prosaic" conversation around food, wine, travel, family, sports and more.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. As an example, we had an advanced manufacturing business that achieved excellent early results. The product development cycle was excellent.

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