Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors expect to review a short executive summary before booking time to hear an investor presentation or taking the time to analyze a full business plan. Remember that angel investors are buying equity in your business, so they are not impressed with a customer presentation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 27, 2016

You’ve made it through the hectic holiday season and it’s now time to start planning for success in 2016. But how can you start striving for success if you don’t know definitively what success should look like for your business in comparison to your competitors? by Brandon Levey, CEO of Stitch Labs. The New Year is here!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 5, 2020

Business Visitor Visa. Business Planning. What Makes Canada An Attractive Investment/Business Destination? Successfully starting a business in Canada is a milestone for business owners who understand the amazing opportunities that await them. Let’s review their areas of expertise. Investor Visa.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

After listening to hundreds of startup pitches, and reading even more business plans, most new venture investors develop their own favorite list of “red flags” that signal the beginning of the end of their interest. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/03/2016. Your future depends on it.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2016

By Hunter Hoffmann, Head of US Communications at Hiscox Small Business Insurance. Now that we’ve closed the books on 2015, it’s the perfect time to start thinking about resolutions for 2016. But, no time is better than now to think about your business and reflect on what worked well in 2015 and what needs work in the year ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

Resist the temptation to skip the business plan. Many new entrepreneurs believe the myth that a business plan is only required to satisfy professional investors and can be skipped with crowdfunding. In reality, the value to you of a detailed plan is even greater when you won’t have investors challenging it.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2021

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. It Started With An Idea. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. Team Silknet – Detecting Ground Base Threats.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2017

You may have a sudden, overwhelming desire to spend to your heart’s content, but it is important to act responsibly and follow the spending plan laid out in your business plan if your business is to survive its critical early years. Take a moment and step back to review the business plan that you worked so hard on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Smart entrepreneurs overtly plan every month to re-sync their vision and objectives with newly-learned market realities. This means regular updates are required to your business plan, marketing message, social media, and website content. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/06/2016.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

Before approaching any business, you should have a concrete plan, not only about how you want to involve yourself in the business but also why you have chosen that specific business in that specific industry. Research how other successful entrepreneurs create business plans and take inspiration from them.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

When it comes to running a business, it’s always important to have a plan in hand. Whether it is about how you intend to run the business (a business plan) or what your contingency plan, like should there be an unexpected interruption that can hinder your business. The list can be endless.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

Remember that investors at this stage have heard primarily from the founder, and only reviewed written business plans and collateral. Due diligence is going the next step, to meet and interview all key members of the team, visit the business location and follow-up with early customers and advisors.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

According to one Observer article , of the 40,000 applications the show received in 2016, only 180 entrepreneurs were able to pitch in front of the sharks. Draft a business plan. Once you have some goals in mind, it’s time to make a plan to achieve them. You do this by showing them your business plan.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2017

The bottom line: The climate looks pretty good for people thinking of starting tech businesses that will vie for VC funding, but a trend toward lower dollar deals suggests that founders might do well to consider a variety of funding sources. Small Business Borrowing Drops. Startups Going for Loans Rather Than Venture Capital.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2015

2016 is just 30 days away. And if you want to make 2016 your best year ever, you need to start planning now. You can expect to hear a positive, motivating message loaded with golden nuggets to make 2016 an incredible year. So come January 1st, you’ll be off to the races.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2016

To be honest I built the class out of frustration watching schools teach aspiring entrepreneurs that all they need to know is how to write a business plan or how to sit in an incubator building a product. Here are four examples from our 2016 Stanford class. Pair Eyeware. A great competitive Petal diagram is on slide 22.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. It Started with an Idea. Hacking for Defense has its origins in the Lean LaunchPad class I first taught at Stanford in 2011. If you can’t see the SeaWatch slides click here.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Start by writing a business plan —they’re required by bank lenders and investors. But even if you don’t need outside funding to get started, business planning will help you make sure you’ve considered every aspect of your business. License your patent. It has another benefit.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 6, 2016

This first week of 2016 is the best time to set big growth and success goals for the New Year. To demonstrate, let's break that “Double Revenues in 2016” Stretch Goal down into a series of Attainable Goals whereby we improve performance of the below four key business processes by just 20% each : 1. Set Attainable Goals.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2015

And correspondingly, in this hopefully more positive, energized and forward-feeling state, let me offer five “end-of-year” mindsets to get 2016 off to the right start to be the BEST year of all of our business lives: 5. trillion mark in 2016. That sounds like a great 2016! Push the Risk Envelope. Pursue Global Markets.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2017

These are buzzwords for many Americans that aspire to start a business of their own—and there are indeed many. In fact, the 2016 Kaufman Index on Startup Activity reported that 550,000 new businesses are started every month in America. Entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2018

Where once the bank would have been the first port of call for a loan, the 2008 recession all but closed off this option for independent businesses – and it’s never fully re-opened. According to the Daily Telegraph, £3.2bn was lent out by peer-to-peer lenders in 2016 alone. Business Angels.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

The figures are more inspiring today: The 2016 State of Women-Owned Businesses Report says “there are now 11.3 million women-owned businesses in the United States, employing nearly 9 million people and generating over $1.6 Don’t skip the critical process of business idea evaluation and validation. Craft a business plan.

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Up and Running

JUNE 8, 2016

alone in 2016, gift card sales are expected to hit $140 billion. If you’re not sold on those statistics alone, you will be when you learn that according to this same survey of over 18,000 businesses, 50 percent of businesses grew when they started using online booking software. Take business to the next level. In the U.S.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

The proportion of US workers earning a living on a “freelance” basis was 34 percent in 2016, and the gig economy is expected to grow enough to cause that number to rise to 43 percent by 2020. Obviously, there’s some need for caution if you plan to get a significant business off the ground while you’re studying.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 23, 2015

Steven Burrill Business Plan Competition at UW Madison has been called off for 2016. From Judy Newman at the Wisconsin State Journal : A highlight of the UW-Madison’s School of Business for the past 18 years, a notice on the contest’s website says “due to budgetary constraints,” the Burrill competition is being “suspended.”.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2016 study, researchers observed that people with a high body mass index (BMI) prefer a thinly shaped bottle, even if the drink is higher in price. Here’s what won’t change: Deceptive marketing tactics and promises not delivered won’t build, as Dooley rightly notes, a sustainable business. Plan accordingly.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I learned this painful reality firsthand in one of my early businesses producing New York City theater. I was so focused on creating great art, I barely gave thought to a business plan. This mindset is responsible for the failure of thousands of businesses of all kinds.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Let’s say you have a great business idea that leverages the power of technology to meet a certain consumer or lifestyle need. If you believe that your idea is worth the effort of putting together a business plan and going through the development and funding process, you may have a potentially lucrative tech startup.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2016

When it comes to starting a business, there’s no shortage of information on how to do it; from writing a business plan to applying for an SBA-guaranteed loan, just about everything has been covered. That is, until now.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2016

Only 18 percent of total revenue in 2016 was from the top four largest players in the fitness industry, while small speciality gyms and independently-owned fitness businesses made up the rest. Having a strong business plan in place can help solidify funding for your gym or fitness center. Health Club Business Plan.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2017

ViewQwest launched in Malaysia in Q3 2016 with Indonesia next in line. The entrepreneurs and executives running these great companies understood that whether you're looking to raise capital, sell your company, expand current market share or enter new markets, having a solid growth plan and roadmap is indispensable.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

Community lenders can be found across the country, from Opportunity Fund in California; LiftFund , with offices in Texas and the southeast; Business Center for New Americans in New York City; and Coastal Enterprises, Inc. Accion also provides microfinance and larger loans to small businesses throughout the United States.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2016

In my role as an angel investor to startups, I’m struck by the broad variety of advisor strategies I see in investor presentations and business plans that cross my desk. For long-term success, make it happen, and highlight it in every pitch and business plan you produce.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2016

What are some specific goals that your business needs to implement in its business plan? Here’s a sample short term goal: DEF Company’s short term goal #1 is to set a target sales goal of $10,000 for the Connecticut market by August 2016 of our new product “Clean And Restore Metal and Wood Cleaner.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Poorly written or missing business plan. If you recently sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably don’t need a business plan at all to get money for your next startup. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/15/2016. Minimize both.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The year 2016 will see so many startup companies coming forward with great idea, with the many startup helps and conferences held worldwide. The first thing will be a well written business plan. Here we bring forth some over- the-tradition points to include in your plan: 1. Fighting it out is the key factor.

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