The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2018

Some of the best options include: Wix : With its easy drag-and-drop interface, Wix offers a large array of free design templates (mobile compatible) that works for almost all type of businesses. Weebly : Since its inception in 2007, Weebly has remained popular as website builder with small businesses.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). July 31, 2007 |.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 7, 2011

From Employee To Entrepreneur My transition from employee to entrepreneur started in November of 2007. About six months into my “big city” job after college it hit me that finance, a long commute, and working for someone else just wasn’t what I wanted from a career or for my lifestyle. Focusing On Finances The first concern was money.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. The Small Business Advocate Radio Show is a great place to start. The latest member of this elite media club is the humble podcast.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

You have been 2,950 to visit the site in 2007 and you looked at 3,920 pages. This represents an outstanding 2,298% growth vs. 2006 (this type of growth seems big but you get used to it when reading business plans is you day job). This has proven to be true in 2007 and we will see how resilient these trends are in a recession.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Larry Weltman, through his role as Customer Service Representative at AccessEasyFunds Limited , helps realtors not only start up, but also significantly expand their real estate businesses by using commission advance services as a key financing tool. Larry Weltman : A real estate business plan is like a GPS for success.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Renmin University was among the first universities to create a venture capital major in the School of Finance and teach venture capital for undergraduates. While China was far behind, accounting for about 4.7% of the total, nevertheless, China became number two and has kept that status ever since.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Olaf students, along with University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Spencer Uttley, have developed their own business model, JonnyPops is the brainchild of Jonathan “Jonny” Jeffrey, a cousin of chief founder Brust. In 2007 Brust and his cousin talked about how fun it would be to own a gourmet frozen pop business.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2016

economy added 178,000 jobs, reducing the unemployment rate to 4.6%, its lowest level since August 2007. And so the ambitious executive should ask: How should 2017 business plans and performance expectations be “reset” in light of this improved outlook? In November the U.S.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2018

It’s fine to use a broker to help locate a business opportunity, but it’s foolish to rely on a broker—who doesn’t make a commission unless he makes a sale—for advice about the quality of a business or the fairness of its selling price. Do due diligence on the business’s history and finances. It was revised in 2018.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

That is a mistake and I’m going to teach you how to get to the nitty-gritty of that, so that you make sure that the day you open your business you know who your target customer is. We’re also going to talk about developing a business plan. I want you to have a plan for success, so we’re going to talk about that.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Peopledoc is a great example, and the success of the company is deeply entrenched in the driving force of the founding team, who reinvented the business a couple of times to get to where they are today. Jon and Pierre working on the first business plan in 2007 A few brainstorming sessions later, and a new strategy was born.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. This slimming down has sent shockwaves through the startup world. Sure, $28 billion is far from being a “trickle” but consider this. Venture Capital ?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Messy cap tables can come back to haunt you when you do a financing or sell the company. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

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. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

At one point in this post, Philippe says "Gary typically based his *sales board plan* at 70% of sales quota. By sales board plan, are you referring to Gary's actual business planning forecasts? So in effect, his business plan showed 30% less than the sales quota? ► 2007. (10).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Venture Financing. Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). Online clothing exchange for busy people looking to save money. Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. We also discussed the following deals of the week. Watch the show! TechCrunch.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. Put people to work and go for it… Just think about how you would want to be approached before you drop a poorly worded business plan bomb on a group of Venture Capitalists, hedge fund group, trust and any friendly Angel Investor. You may not get a second chance.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Zyrra incorporated in late 2004 and spent a few years designing, prototyping, and building the bra models and the sizing system to plug into the CAD platform in order to design them in a more individualized way, and came out with its first bra model around 2007. Notice how long the company has been around.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! Community is more powerful than money or technology » August 11, 2007 How much equity for investors and employees? 5% Managers -.25%

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Over the past 2 years I have seen hundreds of business plans. I have to give myself a little bit of credit on this one in that I thought (and even said a few times) that last year (and this year) would be a bad time to raise money meaning it’s a good time to finance with sales.

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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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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?

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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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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Investing in Groups - best practices of Angels » October 30, 2007. So often when people talk about businesses and startups, there is a great deal of high level talk about strategy, broad vision, and so forth. John Mullins: Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. God is in the details."

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. No investor cares about a business plan. 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)? . Other sources of capital. They care about real product.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. Of course, the most important funding statistic to an entrepreneur relates to one specific company, and whether there is sufficient capital available to build and scale his business. Total amount raised fell from $7.5

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. This lending model was further refined, and peer-to-peer lending companies like Prosper emerged in 2006 and Lending Club emerged in 2007. such other information as the SEC may prescribe.

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