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8 New Business Keys To Success For Real Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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8 Tips For Getting Your Startup Right The First Time

Startup Professionals Musings

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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10 Creativity Mistakes Jeopardize Long-Term Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. Plan in great detail and avoid things not in the budget. Budgets must be reviewed monthly for adjustments to accommodate innovations.

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Double Book Short: Framework of Frameworks

OnlyOnce

I love me a good framework. And Geoffrey Moore is the kind of good product/marketing frameworks for technology companies. In Zone to Win, Moore shows you how to put the three Horizons into action by creating an overlay framework to managing your company to help optimize all three zones simultaneously.

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10 Ways To Trample And Smother Business Innovation

Startup Professionals Musings

Business plans should be loose frameworks to be used as guidelines rather than detailed route maps. Typical incentives give percentages of quarterly revenues and contribution as rewards for success. Plan in great detail and avoid things not in the budget. Budgets must be reviewed monthly for adjustments to accommodate innovations.

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

This is the second in a three-part series that aims to help you understand the Traction Gap Framework® – a step-by-step approach that startup teams can use to go from ideation to preparing to scale. Read on to find out what exactly the “gap” in the Traction Gap Framework is and why traversing that gap is so critical to your success.

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How To Make The Most Of Your DNA As An Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs. In the pressure of early revenue, it’s easy to be bent toward what’s in front of you today, rather than follow your strength and your vision.