Growthink Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

A report released by the Pew Research Center on Tuesday showed that 58 percent of Americans say that the current economic situation in the country is either “very good or somewhat good,” up from 44% a year ago, the largest one year improvement in the survey’s history, and the most positive assessment of economic conditions since 2007.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With a CRM in place, you can simultaneously serve customers while learning more about them and why they are doing business with you. This can include data points like their purchase history, how they communicate with you , customer service interactions, and even notes from conversations.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

This is especially important in good economic conditions like we have currently (see here and here ), where the more relevant historical period might be say - the 2006/2007 period – i.e. one of similarly “frothy” macro-economic conditions. How Big is My M arket? to proposals, to sales, to retention, to ongoing revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

When I discovered WordPress back in 2007, the first thing that happened is I discovered the plug-in repository, which is this free repository at wordpress.org, which has now over 30,000 plug-ins that you can download and include in your website for free. You take that business plan to a bank, you’ll never get a loan.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

If I had to go all the way back to 2007 when I left my wall street job, I would have done this option. Another key motivator I think is a well-thoughtout business plan and even some initial wireframes/front-end dev. A bunch of this came from our conversations. You need to avoid the idea guy and the doer guy problem.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2011

Even though global IPO markets may now be showing a bit of an uptick, indicative of the trend of new company formations after the abysmal depths of 2007 to 2010, any entrepreneur who has been trying to raise capital for a new venture does not have to be told that money is tighter than ever and investors have taken risk aversion to new heights.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 3, 2007

« Is Business Model Analysis Important To You? " Mies van der Rohe » October 03, 2007. It means that the entrepreneur hasnt done the hard work of figuring out a business model at a detailed level, nor allocated the total investment required to achieve their goals. Main. | "God is in the details."

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

No investor cares about a business plan. At the end of the conversation, ask them if they’d be willing to make an introduction. If you’re not into business plans, as an investor, how would you decide if a startup is worth investing in (if you do in fact invest in startups)? . On your deck, or your business?)

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Theres something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

The process of choosing which business to start is often done incorrectly and does not factor in the experience level of the younger entrepreneur or lay a foundation for the first-time business owner to grow both personally, professionally and fiscally. As a first time entrepreneur, you are going to want to avoid this at all costs.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. But, before we dive into the data, why do we even need to look at research on business planning?

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

Over the past few months, with the help of my friend Jeff, from the University of Oregon, I’ve been looking at academic research on business planning—the actual science around planning and how it impacts both startups and existing businesses. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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