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Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. That’s because, thanks to the increasing use of interactive media and advanced data collection techniques, it’s more possible than ever before to gather meaningful data and use it to make business decisions.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Their business was a robot lawn mower. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example).

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Learning from the High Flyers, Part Two

Growthink Blog

Speed of product development, of brand-building, of customer acquisition, of team-building and talent aggregation. For as long as they are in business. Or Airbnb raising $2.3 billion over 8. Or Dropbox raising $607 million over 9. They keep raising money because money buys speed.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Great for visualizing work of product development. That’s why we gathered a collection of 20 online resources for European startups that will help you with business plans, recruiting, publicity and networking. BPS : Business Plan Servicesâ?? business planning. aggregation.