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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Otherwise, your CPA will get driven up close to or exceeding your LTV, and you cant grow profitably anymore. Choose one.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer. But this is wrong, too.

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Saturday Startup Spotlight: TaxTaker

Austin Startup

Capital Factory’s Saturday Startup Spotlight series, where we chat with an exciting new startup and get to know their story, returns this week with the co-founder and CEO of TaxTaker : Ari Palmer. Our mission is to empower CPA practices for growth. In doing so, we also aim to improve startups business’s financial health.

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Do You Have a Hobby or a Business?

Up and Running

Create a Lean Business Plan. Establishing goals also opens the door to develop a Lean Business Plan. Writing a Lean Plan is the perfect process for those turning a hobby into an actual business. Since you already have a product or service offering, the Lean Plan helps you outline how that will function as a business.

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Fracking Your Customer Base

crowdSPRING Blog

The technique, although controversial in some quarters, has given the energy industry a huge boost of productivity, revenue, and profit as they learn to make the most of their existing assets and extract the most from their existing fields. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: 3 Essentials for Customer Service.

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Screw Traffic – Show Me The Money

ConversionXL

Because I know when I get home after a hard day’s work I like to have a glass of wine or 6, lean back and marvel at my amazing traffic trends report. Total revenue – Yes total revenue is generally a vanity metric. Great you’ve got revenue. Get more revenue? We all do it. Auto follow more people?

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