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Beware The Consultant

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Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. There is nothing under the sun that will suck up your time and money faster, more prodigiously and less effectively than a consultant.

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5 Situations That Kill Businesses and How to Avoid Them

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From market research to internal corporate structure, the planning stages of starting and growing a business can be quite extensive. While this preparation is a key factor in the success of any company, there are a few things which far too many business owners neglect. This is why disability insurance is so vital.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Americas new business model: Sharing. Marc Saltzman. Shop for Games. |. Science & Space. Science & Space Home. Science Fair. Dan Vergano. Shop for Gadgets. By Roger Yu, USA TODAY. Reprints & Permissions. The nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it. Weve hosted some interesting tech entrepreneurs.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, we were fixated on "building a real business" and never noticed that maybe students would want to share their profiles with each other. We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. No business model, either. And Google?

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

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As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Intuitive URL. Sans Acronyms.

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Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup

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Our chosen problem was logic models , which are the non-profit equivalent of business plans. We first saw the problem when working with a consulting firm that was helping a client with two of their programs. We first saw the problem when working with a consulting firm that was helping a client with two of their programs.

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