Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The Focus on Execution Versus Learning and Discovery The product development model assumes that customers needs are known, the product features are known, and your business model is known. Given this certainty, it’s logical that a startup will hire a sales and marketing team to simply execute your business plan.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Plan for Niche Domination. Why should your next business plan focus on finding and developing a niche? Will have more repeat business and referrals. f. Attract the right customers, staff and partners. Working this into your next business plan will keep your resources focused and not wasted.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 14, 2017

We wrote a business plan our Senior year of college and won the Rothschild Entrepreneurship Competition, which gave us more confidence in the idea. After a brief stint in the corporate world after college, we quit our jobs and launched the business full time. What does being a service entrepreneur mean to you?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2018

After Chewy’s recovery (he lived to age 17), I found other pet owners in similar situations and began helping them as well, with equally positive results, so I researched turning this into a business. I spent six months learning about the benefits of less-processed food for animals and working on a business plan.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 29, 2011

My class no longer looks like a traditional old business planning class. Instead, students learn to develop a business model and pivot until the cows come home. The beauty of the business model canvas is that it allows you to create a large visual representation of the business on a whiteboard or on the wall with sticky notes.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Why you can run a business and why you should run a business. While our data does apply to a US audience, the reasons for starting a business really aren’t going to be that different, whether you’re in Canada or South Africa. Think the country is dominated by big businesses run by people with MBAs?

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate Writing a business plan is a must; failed entrepreneurs rarely take that step. Taking over an existing business is always the best bet; failed entrepreneurs prefer to start from scratch.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I built a multi-million dollar company (and sold it) from New Brunswick Canada. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you are a creative guy with a good head for business looking for an engineering partner, send me a summary of your idea and business plan, and I'll do the implementation!" you can steal an idea just from hearing it, it is not really a good defensible business idea. But you have bigger problems.

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2015

You know what they’re going to ask for: your business plan. You don’t have an MBA, you aren’t an accountant, and you aren’t getting into business to stay up all night crunching numbers. You need something that’s easy to use and that gives you a professional plan that you can really put into action.

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Up and Running

MARCH 23, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed two seasoned veterans of the catering business: Jean-Marc Fontaine is a French-trained chef, event planner, and sommelier who now serves as the Catering Sales and Events Consultant for Urban Source Creative Catering in the heart of downtown Toronto, Canada.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

That’s one of the areas that most people just, start a business. It’s part of the business planning that the folks over at LivePlan help you with. Ryan : What type of planning or usage are you seeing by your customers in that Scoreboard feature, or with a business plan software? Ryan : Sabrina?

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