Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Write a business plan for your desired new business. You can’t keep all these in your head.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. Steve is also the author of Surviving a Startup: Practical Strategies for Starting a Business, Overcoming Obstacles, and Coming Out on Top. More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. Like this show?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

For the rest of us, I’ve accumulated the following additional practical strategies for surviving the scale-up challenges, and making your business profitable and sustainable: Enlist an experienced advisor to project real costs. Build your plan around resources you know. Start networking for funding before the crisis.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

The French government has translated the JEI program into English as the Young Entrepreneurs Initiative , an annual competition run by the French Embassy to the US. The boards of these organizations include large companies, local and regional government representatives, universities/public research labs and SMEs. The Big Players.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Small business grants. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network. Angel investors. Venture capital.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

In the 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s, momentum shifted to the enterprise as large businesses supported innovation in PCs, communications hardware and enterprise software. Government and the enterprise are now followers rather than leaders. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Actually, banks don’t finance business startups. Banks aren’t supposed to invest depositors’ money in new businesses. Myth #3: Business plans sell investors. A well-written and convincing business plan (and pitch ) presents your business to investors in detail; but they are investing in your business, not just a plan.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Small business grants. This source often gets overlooked, but it should be a major focus these days due to government initiatives on alternative energy and technology. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $1 million, the next step is to tap into a local angel network. Angel investors. Venture capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

It’s not a quick solution, but the government and other funding agencies do not want ownership or interest payments from your company. Related sources include local business development agencies. Startup incubators. If you are looking for $25,000 to $250,000, the next step is to tap into a local angel network.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

For example, Qualcomm Ventures hosts an international business plan competition called QPrize , which targets mobile technology startups. A $250,000 prize is meaningful for most startups, but it’s far less than what it takes to run a formal R&D team inside a company. 4) Accelerators.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks. It's no accident that the people who give out money have the largest networks of people floating around them. Government and academic professionals also seek them out to get connected to the startup ecosystem. They also meet a ton of press.

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Up and Running

JULY 5, 2016

If, after reading, you find yourself inspired and ready to start the business planning process, be sure to check out our business planning guide! Ranked number one on WalletHub’s Best Cities to Start a Business, Sioux Falls is a great place to put down roots. Government Requirements. Sioux Falls, SD.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

We finished our first full day at a dinner with Halo , the Northern Ireland Business Angel Network (Alan Watts). Topics of conversation included how to identify fundable companies, trends in funding, business plans, and pitching to investors.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. Business Plan. That said, it is important to talk to customers before you spend 6 months writing a plan.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2013

A well-picked mentor can help point you in the right direction, identify potential opportunities and his potentially extensive network can lead you to investors and collaborations. Many governments are pro-business, and there are many public sector funds that founders can apply for to give their startups a much-needed boost.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

As you’re getting started and working on your business plan , you’ll need to look into and understand some of the specific requirements in your area: Obtaining business licenses and permits. Things you need to include in your business plan to get a bank loan. Getting a tax ID and understanding your tax obligations.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

If you are not prepared to do this, and think that you know better than the customer, or that you just want to build it a certain way and damn the feedback, then you’re not going to have much of a business to show on Demo Day! We will open our network of successful entrepreneurs and investors to offer invaluable experiences to you.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 23, 2019

A recent survey of Kiwi small businesses, commissioned by Prospa and conducted by YouGov Galaxy, saw more than three quarters (76%) of small business owners admit to having struggled with areas of business management. Business mentors & coaches.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world. This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. It’s a recipe for failure.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

1) There’s a growing buzz around entrepreneurship - several people mentioned that in the past, students that graduated from college hurried to find a job in big company and in the case of Brazil also the government. Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. 4) The concept of networking is new here.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Like many cities that foster thriving startup communities, Madison benefits from strong university and government support (the latter in the form of a 25% tax credit for angel investors and a 2% forgivable loan for startups), as well as a number of entrepreneur-friendly events organizations.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 13, 2017

Having a home-based business requires discipline, initiative and diligence. Call The Local Government Offices. It is important that you call the city hall or county courthouse for information on the municipal regulations for home-based businesses. There are many universities that offer business incubators.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2019

It’s remade entrepreneurship education, startup practice and innovation in companies and the government. It still seems like yesterday that Ann Miura-Ko and I were creating a new class – the Lean LaunchPad at Stanford to teach students an alternative to how to write a business plan. If you can’t see the video click here.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Your health startup business plan should be a tool to guide your growth. If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Have a comprehensive growth strategy.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Those people have to be connected to one another and to universities by information-sharing social networks. They commonly tout Silicon Valley and North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park as examples of the success of government-supported clusters. And the success of Silicon Valley was achieved without government involvement.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We have learned a lot just from doing, networking, and talking to other farmers. Building good relationships and networking also go a long way to helping you pick up relevant skills, especially in the early days. Are you starting a small farming business or a hobby farm? Free farming sample business plans.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Spend 20% of your time building a network of advisors that can help you.

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