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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. 66% Net Operating Margins?

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. From Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate ]. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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“Speed and Tempo” – Fearless Decision Making for Startups « Steve.

Steve Blank

I love the way you differentiate. Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Would you be interested in guest posting? Sometimes, it’s the failures or mistakes that lead to the successess.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. That same shift is now coming to healthcare.

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How to make better decisions

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, their first venture capital investment was actually beamed from PalmPilot to PalmPilot live in a restaurant in the Bay Area. And this is a case where what we talk about in Decisive overlaps very nicely with The Lean Startup because this speaks directly to the philosophy you have. DH: That’s a great question.

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

This is going to be BIG.

Bad intros usually include some service provider, like some high net worth management guy looking to get me to invest with him. You may decide that where you are now compared to where you'll be in three months isn't a good time, and that's fine, but let's not pretend that you're not a tech entrepreneur in the office of a venture capital firm.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. You better be going after venture capital funding and be getting hundreds of millions of dollars. That is an old-school plan.