Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. It’s a great blog to visit, especially if you need help with your subscription business. Follow Jason on Twitter @ASmartBear. Follow Bill on Twitter @billgurley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. Social entrepreneurs take note!) Lastly, I wanted to share with you the foreword I wrote for The Lean Entrepreneur.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs. Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. Defining Small Business Innovation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2011

Internet marketers see it as a better way to target consumers, and even retarget them to close a sale. But entrepreneurs need to look more broadly than this to tracking, navigation solutions, safety, security, local business search, and payments. All you need to add is an innovative idea and viable business model.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2022

Every aspiring entrepreneur who wants to launch their business and get funding needs to know how to package and present a company to a potential audience and investors. To get funding and successfully launch your business, you need to know what it takes to create an attractive presentation for potential investors.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

AUGUST 23, 2011

When I left academics years ago to go into the private sector as a healthcare entrepreneur, I was shocked how much I missed the rhythm of the school year my first couple of years away from teaching. The Beloit College Mind-Set List has labeled the class of 2015 the "Internet Class". So now the forecasting fun begins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

When the project winds up getting cancelled for failing to meet its ROI justification, it’s natural for the entrepreneur to feel like it was the CFO – and their innovation-sucking spreadsheet – that is the real cause. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Ive forecasted the issues you have spoken of without entertaining the thoughts of solutions like you have. For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

At present, there are more than 386,000 home health care businesses in the U.S., With a low barrier to entry and a growing demand, it is an appealing business for eager entrepreneurs. Step 1: Formulate your business plan. Additional market research resources include: Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2016

Wouldn’t it be great if, instead of having to fight, hunt, and practically beg for each new sale, you could set up a business in such a way that all your customers paid you regularly, time and time again? To give you an idea about what is out there, here are a few areas where the subscription business model has excelled.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

It was the last day of the third quarter of the year and we hard more deals we needed to close to finish the quarter strong and report numbers to Wall Street that justified our high-flying profile as a recently public Internet commerce software company. Recurring revenue business models are not a little bit better than non-recurring models.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 8, 2012

Sometime before one recent Christmas, I was listening to a news report about how "Cyber Monday" was expected to just "blow the doors" off of the prior years' and that year's forecasted holiday shopping dollar volume (and, of course, it did). Time enough to watch and study how these changes might impact an entrepreneur's business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. No business model, either. I pretty much missed all the trends.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. His passions are business process automation, surfing, and his new baby girl Maya. ?. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. Entrepreneur How-To''s' Step 3: Test your channels.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Finally, is the “Internet of Things” the sign of progress, or pushing us toward a grim future? Check out Lara Galloway’s new book, Moms Mean Business. The “Internet of Things” (IoT) – (22:06). My business has just continued and grown and grown and grown over the years. – (9:47).

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

I realized they can, and the answer is e-commerce (buying and selling on the internet). The cologne and perfume industry is approximately a $25 billion industry in North America that is forecast to grow exponentially. I asked why should only a few be able to afford a 3.4OZ bottle of Armani for $89.99?

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. If that were the case, most of the Cable and Wireless companies who have been using a similar business model would have gone bankrupt a long time ago and Saleforce would not have 20% FCF margins today. internet. (6).

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Since sustainability is synonymous with business resilience, climate change regulation compliance, and long-term financial success, it’s a mainstream consideration for industries globally. As part of their business model, the brand spends months finding ethical factories around the world, and regularly visits them to check in.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Our business model was Pinterest. It goes to show you that the business model was good but we just … We’re not the right team. They want to be able to put a badge or something, whatever it is that works for your business model but don’t pay them. Pinterest didn’t exist at the time.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck. Efficiently communicating your strategy, business model, and competitive differentiation is required for many critical things you will do as a company.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

However, as a successful entrepreneur who has built one of the largest IoT hardware supply chain platforms, I know first-hand that the philosophy of “democracy for all” rarely makes its way into the business world.  Analysts forecast that 6.4 Ernst & Young awarded Kang the 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year, China.

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