Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2023

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. In that context, it could be a social enterprise, or even a hobby, and a business plan may not be beneficial. Get started and get some momentum.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2019

If you’re doing digital marketing, you’ve probably already aligned your marketing goals with your company’s sales goals and forecast: in order to achieve X percent growth in sales, you’re using a number of different marketing and sales tactics to increase your revenue. What will you do to keep them coming back?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2021

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More recently, the concepts have been applied to the general business management context, in a classic book by Certified Turnaround Professional, Thomas H.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2016

I often use steering as a metaphor for business planning. So too with running your own business, or starting a new one. Which is exactly why you want to focus on milestones and metrics in business planning. See Also: Milestones Make Your Business Plan a Real Plan.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 4, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. This week they were testing who the customer, user, payer for the product will be (and discovering if they have a multi-sided business model , one with both buyers and sellers.) Sales process: buyer/ user/ influencer etc.?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. In that context, it could be a social enterprise, or even a hobby, and a business plan may not be beneficial. Get started and get some momentum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2020

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. In that context, it could be a social enterprise, or even a hobby, and a business plan may not be beneficial. Get started and get some momentum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2016

If you are one of the new age of entrepreneurs who hates the thought of doing a business plan as a first step in starting your new venture you will love this message. In that context, it could be a social enterprise, or even a hobby, and a business plan may not be beneficial. Get started and get some momentum.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

Sponsors will have different reasons for backing your project: sales, lead generation, brand awareness, product launches , corporate social responsibility, etc. This will help sponsors quickly identify if your audience matches their target market. However, matching demographics alone doesn’t guarantee ROI. Audience data.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Use this time to make sure that you are matching the business you want to start to your personal aspirations. If you will be seeking outside financing, a business plan is a necessity. In fact, the business plan does not have to be a formal document at all if you don’t need to present your plan to outsiders.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 20, 2017

Business owner, please: If you have any doubt about the value of planning your business, at least take this simple first step. Just do a sales forecast, which means you aren’t doing text, editing, or a document, just good management. You might even call it a Lean Plan , or a one-page business plan , if you like.

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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 ? And when do business planning and execution come into play?

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. is quite good.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The tools and techniques available to small businesses on Main Street are the same ones that were being used for the last 75 years. Serendipity.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Test your business idea and do market research*. We use the lean planning methodology to figure this out. Will team members share ownership of the business? Create a basic financial plan. Estimate your basic expenses and forecast sales to ensure that you can make a profit with your business.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2017

Most successful business plans entail launching a new product, service, or distribution outlet that attacks existing market competitors on what military planners would term an exposed flank. A smart commander will mass forces against this flank, just as an astute business leader will pour resources into their flanking effort.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

The idea of a Business Model competition first emerged when I realized that Business Plan writing ought to be taught in English Departments – as they’re the best example of creative writing entrepreneurs will ever do. The Business Plan ?- And your revenue plan is something more than a hallucination.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

‘Starting a business’ really only comes down to figuring out your business idea ; doing your paperwork; and sorting out the money. Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

If your investor is a match with your industry, believe it or not, the next most important thing is YOU and your TEAM. If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”. Cash Flow and a Financial Plan. If your business is without the potential to make money, it is not a business.

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Up and Running

MAY 31, 2016

“But how can I write a business plan? ” He was one of my favorite students in the class I used to teach on starting a business. You don’t plan to pay your rent and other expenses? How you make money is at the heart of an artist’s business plan. Make sure your tactics match your strategy.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

It typically takes multiple iterations and pivots to find product/market fit – the match between what you’re building and who will buy it. Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2014

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More recently, the concepts have been applied to the general business management context, in a new book by Certified Turnaround Professional, Thomas H.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2018

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More recently, the concepts have been applied to the general business management context, in a classic book by Certified Turnaround Professional, Thomas H.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. They’ve figured out the revenue model (subscription, license, direct sale, etc.)

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Traditional venture capital models lean into what’s called ‘power laws.’ But I will absolutely acknowledge that companies which take any outside capital implicitly and explicitly incorporate the needs and expectations of that capital into their business planning. Photo by Matthew Waring on Unsplash.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

She made 150 pieces of jewelry, took pictures and waited for sales to come rolling in. Except those “rolling sales” never happened. After months of minimal sales, she started getting orders for custom portraits. For all the Etsy hopefuls out there, White suggests doing research before jumping into the world of online sales.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Teams are iterating and pivoting right and left, one team threw their entire business model out the window and did a complete restart, and another team was having a meltdown over personalities. Lets see what they can pull off.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Step 1: Planning. Whether you’re starting a real estate business, a corner coffee shop, or a company that manufactures rocket parts, it’s a good idea to write a business plan. According to real estate investor Eric Bowlin , the purpose of a business plan is twofold. Free Business Plan Template.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 13, 2015

Much has been written about this subject in the world of manufacturing, stemming primarily from the 1990’s work by Taiichi Ohno, called the Toyota Production System (“Lean”). More recently, the concepts have been applied to the general business management context, in a book by Certified Turnaround Professional, Thomas H.

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Up and Running

JUNE 5, 2018

Create a business plan. Your business plan , according to Business New Daily , should include information on the purpose and goals of your business. When you plan to seek an investment or try to get a loan, a business plan is required. Get an EIN and business license.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

billion in total industry sales. Your price may affect business operations. If you have multiple products, your price may even affect sales. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Do not go into a meeting with a sales-like pitch. 3) Lean Startup Machine - A three-day workshop that teaches entrepreneurs and innovators how to build disruptive products. The only limitation with this platform is that it only gives contact information, meaning you need to find matches on your own.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject. March 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm. This is drivel.Net has value types, easy integration with native code dlls, lamdas and the dlr. William Pearson.

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