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Ready, Set, Drive!: 8 Signs That Now Is the Time to Launch Your Trucking Business

The Startup Magazine

Your Revenue Has Stagnated. One of the worst parts about working for somebody else is that your revenue is capped. When you own a business, you can boost your revenue substantially by courting new clients, hiring more foot soldiers, or being more prudent when it comes to costs. You Have Access to Seed Money.

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Startup Business Investments Around The World

YoungUpstarts

Unfortunately, a number of them had an early exit from the business scene due to ineffective business plans and/or unsustained revenue for their investment. Over time, as you scale your operations, you may need to source additional funding from venture capitalists to mitigate high production costs or limited revenue. Angel Networks.

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10 Types of Nonprofit Grants: Does Your Organization Qualify for Funding?

Board Effect

The federal government has a site called Grants.gov that allows you to search for federal grants. Start-up Grants or Seed Money Grants — Start-up grants are hard to come by, but they exist. Capacity-building grants give you the revenue to do more with what you already have and the projects you have already started.

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No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models

Steve Blank

He and his co-founder were both PhD’s in applied math who believe they can make some serious inroads on next generation search. We thought we’d take our plan and go raise seed money. We can’t raise money knowing our plan is wrong.”. This was the second of three “office hours” I was holding that morning for ex students.

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Traction vs. Product

Rob Go

For most companies, this means top-line revenue, but in some cases it’s more about numbers of active users or number of customers. You are searching for stuff that is repeatable and scaleable. 5M in ecommerce revenue or marketplace GMV used to be interesting, but now it’s more like $10M.

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Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money

readwrite.com

Enterprise. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+. on Linked in. Enterprise. Hot Topics. Hurricane Sandy. Deathwatch.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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