Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2020

Others with the right confidence and personality were able to garner funding, despite a weak business plan. Skip the background story and customer pitch, which every investor has heard all too often. Smart Shark Tank presenters have done their homework on each investor, and customize their sample product or anecdote for each.

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Angel Investor Due Diligence Silicon Valley Green 317

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2013

The continuing rise in the price of fuel, combined with the ongoing evidence of global warming, has highlighted the need for alternative energy sources, and green products. Lots of people tell me they are sick of the corporate grind, and they long for the opportunity to take their favorite activity or hobby, and make a business of it.

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Business Plan Venture Capital Demand Forecast 215

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 30, 2020

Run your business more efficiently and conservatively, and cut back in any areas that seem risky. Look at your business plan and see how you can adapt it to temporarily focus on short-term cash flow to ensure that you are back on your feet as quickly as possible. Can you digitise or diversify your product?

Small Business 52

Small Business eCommerce Technical Review Green 52

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2019

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea. In television, this is called narrow-casting, to gear specific channels to a special audience, like golf, old shows, or history. Marty Zwilling.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 23, 2022

I started my own business as I didn’t enjoy being a salaried individual who lived from one payroll to another. I always wanted to start a business but didn’t know which one. I created a business plan and started pitching. Starting your own business is very rewarding financially. 10- To help marketing in eateries.

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Los Angeles Entrepreneur New Jersey Technical Review 131

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 3, 2014

And they were absolutely convinced what the world needed was an auto-driving lawn mover for institutions with large green spaces. Students need to get out of the building and talk to 10-15 customers a week. Like all great Silicon Valley companies they started with a technology and guessed who the customers will be.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2017

The best opportunities are recognized from painful needs, plus a growing population of customers with money to spend. It takes a real selling opportunity to sustain a business idea. In television, this is called narrow-casting, to gear specific channels to a special audience, like golf, old shows, or history.

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Green Social Media Audience Internet 148

Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

The premise of the class is that startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Startups are in fact only temporary organizations, organized to search –not execute–for a scalable and repeatable business model. The EngineKites customer discovery narrative blog is here.

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Lean Business Model Agile United States 261

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 14, 2012

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 29, 2011

You can’t succeed in business without an operational model that delivers value to customers at a reasonable price, with an underlying cost that allows you to make a profit. A target market is the group of customers that the startup plans to attract through marketing and sales their product or service. Target market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2016

Others with the right confidence and personality were able to garner funding, despite a weak business plan. Skip the background story and customer pitch, which every investor has heard all too often. Smart Shark Tank presenters have done their homework on each investor, and customize their sample product or anecdote for each.

Founder 120

Founder Angel Investor Due Diligence Silicon Valley 120

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2015

Others with the right confidence and personality were able to garner funding, despite a weak business plan. Skip the background story and customer pitch, which every investor has heard all too often. Smart Shark Tank presenters have done their homework on each investor, and customize their sample product or anecdote for each.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Due Diligence Silicon Valley 120

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

You’re supposed to demo the business, not just the product. But they’ll sit up and pay attention when you talk about the customers and revenues of the business. Some entrepreneurs come from a history of winning business plan competitions. We use a red/green chart to measure startup readiness for Demo Day.

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Asia Singapore Cofounder Incubator 207

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Last week the teams tested their Revenue Models hypotheses: what are customers willing to pay for? Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. The Nine Teams Present.

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 232

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Just as the dashboard of your automobile tells you how fast you are going or if you are running low on fuel, a business dashboard tells you how your business is doing, if something is wrong or right. You can even see their progress over time and understand how your business has grown. using green color) or not doing well (e.g.

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Small Business Green Revenue Analytics 100

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Customer service. Google Custom Search Engine. Customer Relationship Management. great web customer acquisition tutorials. customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. free/cheap web customer relationship mgmt software. small business CRM.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

” So get out there and do research on how you can ensure your future customers are happy and satisfied with what you offer them. It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.”

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2016

While social and web-based marketing channels are extremely important, a heavy focus on everything digital means that sometimes we forget about the offline, physical marketing materials, which can still have a huge impact on the success of your business. They offer custom printing on apparel, bags, pens, office supplies, and much more.

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Marketing Small Business Affiliate Curation 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 2, 2012

Integrating your keyword and short code* into your existing marketing materials allows customers and prospects to discover and opt-in to your SMS distribution list. One of the greatest challenges of introducing a new marketing channel into your business’s marketing plan is integrating it with your current marketing efforts.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Even if you know nothing about formal market research practices, you can do your own research by getting out to learn more about your customers, distribution channels, and about how to start a farm. Check out farmers’ markets, meet other local producers, speak to customers as you shop. Free farming sample business plans.

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Colorado Southern California Business Plan Oregon 60

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I don’t have any formal business training and I actually think it’s served me well. Read great books / especially business biographies. Talk to your customers. How do I stay motivated?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

I started a couple of businesses before NCrypted and knew that finding the right name for the business is very important and you can’t take it lightly. My idea back then was clear that the name should address what we are doing and should be something that our target customers can directly relate to.

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Naming Entrepreneur Vermont PR 89