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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Berkeley Haas Business School is a leader in entrepreneurship education. It has replaced how to write a business plan with hands-on Lean Startup methods. The final deliverable for that class was a 30-page business plan. We had multiple business plan competitions. The Business Plan is Dead.

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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

To give you a practical example, I’d like to analyze the reasons why my startup was rejected from participating in Start-Up Chile ’s Generation 17. More research and explanation is needed to understand how the business plan will be executed. Here are two of the reasons we were not accepted: The market strategy is not clear.

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[Review] The $100 Startup

YoungUpstarts

3 One-page business plan. Develop a one-page business plan. This should include what you will sell, who your customers will be, how much you will charge, how you’ll market your business, what determines success, and how objections will be managed. You could also position yourself as an instant consultant.

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Episode 3: Smart Bear Live!

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Bob: I’ve come around to the opinion that the metric of how many people join X service is pretty worthless when it comes to monetization. Bob: I think the key thing is, remember the advice that we all got somewhere along the line of, you need a business plan? It’s not so much about doing the business plan.

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