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The Ultimate Guide for Starting and Running a Business at Home

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Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Now if you’re looking for an active plan that you can edit and adjust over time, you may want to consider creating a lean plan. Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Start doing guerilla marketing.

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The Ultimate Work From Home Checklist

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Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Once you’ve built out your Pitch, continue working on creating your Lean Plan. Incorporate milestones and metrics into your Lean Plan. Find good business partners and people who will refer you. Create a website.

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Should You Co-Found Your Company With a Software Development Shop (2 of 2)?

David Teten

Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g., I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. After releasing the MVP, we work on a lean scrum to iterate based on early data/feedback until we start to see signs of product-market fit.

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Nine Keys to Entrepreneurial Survival

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Guerilla Innovation — Chapter Thirteen. This post/chapter of Guerilla Innovation is about money and the concept of survival. You have to take care of the basics in your life in the lean start up years of a new business. My partner hung on and made a success — it took him two more years. I’ve been there.

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How to Start a Travel Agency

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A lean business plan would be a perfect fit for your business. Even if you do intend to pitch your business idea to lenders and investors, you can start with a lean plan, and flesh out the rest of the info later on. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. A Standard Business Plan Outline.

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Purpose Driven Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Just kidding, Design Thinking can be a good choice, as can Agile, or Lean, or your own blended system. This blog post was co-written with Kathleen Curtis Wolfe of The Purpose Partners. Which is best? Can I blend frameworks? If everyone else is jumping off the Design Thinking bridge shouldn’t we?

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What is the perfect startup team?

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Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?