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AUGUST 21, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan. Here’s the process: Create a Lean Plan.

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MAY 3, 2012

Eric Ries , author of The Lean Start-up , puts it best: ‘ The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most products are not successful. We need to be brutally honest, and tell more people that they need to stop what they’re doing and do something more productive, rather than advise them to “try harder” when facing adversity.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

This article is part of our “ Business Startup Guide ”—a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Do you want to provide a service or a product? Who will buy your product or service? Are there already a lot of people paying for products or services similar to yours? What are your skills?

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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! This is an excellent use of the Lean Business Planning methodology , based on a simple Lean Plan combined with regular updates and revisions. A simple business plan example.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! You can actually put together a Lean Plan in less than 30 minutes. Here’s a free downloadable Lean Plan Template to help. Here’s how we suggest creating your sales forecast. Fear and dread.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most of us need just a Lean Business Plan, for internal use, with just bullet point lists and important projections. Good businesses always keep their Lean Plan up to date.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Lots of new box companies have trouble ironing out the kinks in their process: their customer can’t easily unsubscribe, their boxes just aren’t exciting or well-curated, and more. But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan. Any of these can lead to failure.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

This article is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan , for your internal use only.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Make sure your phone is packing a good weather app that allows you to see the local forecast for whatever city you’re in or the next one on your schedule. I really like Yahoo’s weather app – it’s a super simple interface, clean and usable and it displays beautifully curated photos of your location (from Flickr , of course).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! My favorite is the Lean Business Plan , a collection of bullet-point lists and tables that lay out strategy, tactics, milestones, and essential numbers. The Lean Business Plan. Where do you start?

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APRIL 2, 2020

Specifically, if you have an ongoing sales forecast , and expense budgets linked to that forecast, then you have instant visibility for making quick adjustments to sudden change. . It shows how the actual sales (in blue) were above the forecast (in green) until the sudden drop when the crisis hit. H ow to do a sales forecast.

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