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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

That generates what I call ownership, that isn’t shares and stocks, but caring about your part of the business, your functions, your tasks. I’m from Kazakhstan, but I guess business is business everywhere. That comes from metrics that people consume, and that’s critical to a lean business plan.

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2013: The Year of Grit

Seeing Both Sides

And the so-called BRIC countries are forecasting tepid growth (we could rename them "ICK" if we added in Borat's home of Kazakhstan and dropped Brazil and Russia.). When I first learned how to value options in the stock market, a light bulb went off. Europe is still a mess and in a deep recession. Japan is in a decades-long tailspin.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

But if you decide to go it alone with two other business buddies of yours, hoping to outsource to engineers in Kazakhstan or a couple of undergrads, it probably won’t work. I think that’s the point Seth was trying to make. And some of the biggest tech companies were started by just a couple of engineers.