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Lean Planning: A Curated List of Our Best Content

Up and Running

When it comes to business planning, unless an investor has asked you to provide a formal business plan, we recommend writing a Lean Plan instead—it’s faster, more flexible, and will remain relevant throughout the life of your business. If you have any questions about the process, let us know! All about Lean Planning.

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Digital Entrepreneurs — Learn From These 3 Great Business Websites

YoungUpstarts

So household financial product comparison website MoneySuperMarket features detailed guides and blog articles on everything from switching energy suppliers to checking your credit rating and applying for a loan.

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8 Challenges For Startups With A Neighborhood Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

At first this was limited to news sites that concentrated on a segment of a community, like West Seattle, but the concept is now being applied to advertising and promotion sites, blogging sites, and even legal services sites. Or it can be the final destination, if you are looking for a fun family business in the new world.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model.

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

But while that particular model has seen success, it certainly won’t be the only way that companies will be able to create greater personalization and serendipitous discovery for their customers. Reinventing Retail.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. The Curation Team. For a micro-ISV, selling to big businesses can be more lucrative than selling to consumers.

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How to Run a Productive Monthly Business Plan Review Meeting

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This article, which originally appeared on our LivePlan Blog , is part of our “Business Planning Guide” —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Most people think that meetings are a waste of time. They’re right. Next, we review our long-range strategic goals.