Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2015

It seems like every entrepreneur I meet these days is quick to proclaim themselves a visionary, expecting that will give more credibility to their startup idea, and improve their odds with investors. Most true visionary entrepreneurs have unusual energy, creativity, enthusiasm, and a propensity for taking risks.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Here are just a few things you can do by leveraging data analytics: Gain a better understanding of changing customer preferences Discover new business opportunities Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in your operations Minimize and better allocate advertising costs Provide greater customer support through automated chat. 5G Network.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2020

As a CEO/owner you only have so much time and bandwidth. One of the hardest things to come to terms with as an entrepreneur is knowing when a business pursuit is worth it. Assess your business, look at how much time you’re spending, and understand how much money you’re generating (or could be generating).

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2011

One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is the assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give me the big money I need to build the business.” In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. Build a low-budget plan. Don’t hire any employees.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 25, 2024

Squarespace currently offers four main pricing plans, each with different features and capabilities. When billed annually, their personal plan starts at $NZ27 a month and basic business plans at $US38 a month. As such this feature was written by NZ Entrepreneur editorial staff and sponsored by the team at Squarespace.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2023

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2020

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2013

A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Personal bandwidth is limited. entrepreneur startup investor focus job one business' Trying to do everything at once probably means that none of the items will be done well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2012

One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is the assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give me the big money I need to build the business.” In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. Build a low-budget plan. Don’t hire any employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. Of course, not every entrepreneur wants to tackle this challenge.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2018

I’m not a fan of the way “commitment” is depicted in the entrepreneur world. Juggling a career and a business on the side is challenging, but not impossible. If this is the route you’ll take, do a bandwidth check and create a rough timeline to help you stay on track. Am I a hundred percent committed? (Or

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2012

A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Personal bandwidth is limited. It’s great to dream big, but your startup needs a laser focus in the beginning to get market and investor attention.

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Gust

JULY 29, 2012

One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is the assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give me the big money I need to build the business.” In reality, investors fund good business plans, not big dreams. Build a low-budget plan. Don’t hire any employees.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Personal bandwidth is limited. It’s great to dream big, but your startup needs a laser focus in the beginning to get market and investor attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2010

One of the biggest myths I still see in the community of new entrepreneurs is assumption that “All I need is a good idea, and some investor will give me the cash I need to build the business.” In reality, investors fund good business plans, not good ideas. Build a low-budget plan. It’s all in the execution.

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Small Business Force

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Virtually, every business plan that's ever been presented to the investor community, invariably, has that fabled "hockey stick growth" period where suddenly revenue jumps exponentially. And in reality, few businesses ever experience such growth, at least not all at once. The Entrepreneur's Yoda" knows these things.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It was fun watching it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

A business plan I saw recently to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Personal bandwidth is limited. Tags: micro focus grand vision entrepreneur startup. Trying to do everything at once probably means that none of the items will be done well. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Many passionate entrepreneurs fight to add more features into their new products and services, assuming that more function will make the solution more appealing to more customers. Your personal bandwidth is quickly exceeded. As a new entrepreneur in a new startup, it’s better to walk before you try to run.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Many have the dream to start a business, but only a few have the know-how to nurture a successful startup. Write up a business plan and follow these procedures to get from the idea phase to implementation: 1. Computers and the Internet have made it possible for even the smallest businesses to make a big impact.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 19, 2010

Cornell University also says it is seeing connectivity problems with the device and is concerned about bandwidth overload. We could center our entire business planning segment around the concept of new ventures for the IPad. BTW, I would love Apple to send me and my students some IPads to use in our New Venture Creation class.

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Up and Running

MARCH 28, 2017

Being nimble and fast-moving are excellent traits for any entrepreneur, but even the smartest entrepreneurs should do a bit of planning before investing time and money into building a new business. See Also: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Validating your idea with customers. Light the fuse.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If someone wants to become an entrepreneur, is it more important to keep looking for a really good media idea that you can do a month’s worth of customer development on or is it better to think of literally what complete start up can I make in a week? It’s not so much about doing the business plan. Patrick: Cool.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Make no mistake: No matter what industry you’re in, a business plan is essential. What kind of travel business do you plan on starting? If this is the type of travel business you’d like to start, the business planning process should be fairly straightforward. What kind of plan will you need?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Not too long ago it seemed like every product I knew was offering some sort of free plan. This says a lot about the pitfalls of having a free plan for entrepreneurs with limited resources. at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Until then investors and entrepreneurs acted like startups were simply smaller versions of large companies. Everything a large company did, a startup should do – write a business plan; hire sales, marketing, engineering; spec all the product features on day one and build everything for a big first customer ship.

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