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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

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Recently, Palo Alto Software CEO Sabrina Parsons hosted a webinar for our Bcast members on how to use LivePlan to create a better business plan, pitch your idea to investors, and track your business. As a successful small business owner, Sabrina wanted to show off how LivePlan’s many features can help boost your business.

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No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

Steve Blank

With an out-of-this-world business plan. But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem.

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What To Know When Starting Your Own Dentistry Practice

YoungUpstarts

An Effective Business Plan Can Be Your Ticket To Success. Just like any other type of business, starting your own dental practice is a long-term commitment. You’ll have to go through several challenges in the business arena before you can actually attain success. This can include costs on labor, insurance, and materials.

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Business Startup Tools: A Curated List of Our Favorite Tools and Resources to Build Your Company

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SizeUp : If you need help finding a business location or want to see where your competition is, check out SizeUp. You can also compare your forecasted marketing and advertising budget against the competition. Financial forecasting and financial dashboard. See Also: The Top 10 Tools for Tracking Your Web Metrics.

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The Basics of Small Business Loans [WEBINAR]

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Then on the planned side, I know many of you work with Palo Alto and BPlans on new business plans, obviously a startup. For a new business, you’re going through that process, you’re planning and you want to get funding to get your business started. They help businesses with their business plans.

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The Complete Guide to Understanding Cash Flow

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Businesses can use the cash flow statement to record what has occurred to cash or to project into the future in order to determine future needs for cash. You will need to include a cash flow statement in your business plan document and you will need to keep an eye on cash flow so long as your doors remain open for trading.

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