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7 Key Startup Activities Where Follow-Up Is Critical

Startup Professionals Musings

Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. A numbing 68% of all business lost in America is lost due to lack of follow-up after the sale. Investor negotiations. Product development. Marty Zwilling.

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From Couch Commuters to Digital Nomads: Guide to Launching a Business with Remote Workers

The Startup Magazine

Photo by Windows on Unsplash The Business Plan: Writing Your Roadmap to Success. But before diving in head first, be sure to map out a plan. Remember that the more unique and carefully planned your venture is, the greater its chance of standing out amongst crowded digital nomad market!

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is. I finally had a brainstorm, and started writing a business plan. Are you thinking of applying to Y Combinator without an idea?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Do you want to make America functional again ? Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our initial users– major advocacy organizations such as environmental groups–promote majoritarian-supported policies. I finally had a brainstorm, and started writing a business plan.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2021 Lessons Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

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. Stay tuned.

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

As a member of one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization. You can then begin your application to one or more of these organizations right on the same screen. Keiretsu Forum.