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Top 14 Sites to Promote Your Startup

ReadWriteStart

Not only do these sites help you reach a wider audience, but they help people find your app more easily. Getting on a relevant website can have pages that feature and show off your awesome business. the site offers many resources, tips, and advice on everything from business planning to marketing your product.

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How to use your business plan

Up and Running

Bill Payne had a nice post on gust.com late last month titled Using your business plan , in which he lists the different forms or outputs people confuse with a business plan and sets each one into the proper use context. Expect lots of questions from your investor audience. Talk about solving customer problems.

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Episode 9: Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry | The Bcast

Up and Running

This week Peter and Jonathan talk to Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software, about lean business planning, strategy, tactics, specifics (milestones), and the forecast. Lean Business Planning by Tim Berry – (31:21). Preorder on Amazon.com – Lean Business Planning: Get What You Want From Your Business.

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Writing Your Business Plan: Seven Essential Steps You Should Know

YoungUpstarts

If you’re planning on starting a business, you need a business plan. A good business plan will help to keep your company on track and guide it in the right direction, and it will also help you to secure funding from banks, venture capitalists and other investors. Target audience. Don’t go overboard.

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Why Your Small Business Should Focus on Younger Customers

Up and Running

Trying to figure out who they are and what their audiences should look like. targeting a specific audience underpins them all. But there’s an audience segment that every small business (at least, those that don’t focus on age-related products like stairlifts) should target: young people. So who are the right people?

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How to Establish a Relationship Funnel for Long-Term Business Growth

Up and Running

When writing your business plan , consider that customer relationships begin the moment a consumer learns about your company. Focusing your content to cater to the taste of your chosen niche market will hook them more than general topics that cover a wider audience. Build and define relationships. Nurture relationships.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies.

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