Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It took me approximately 12 months from the time I decided to move forward with the launch of Hera Hub to the point where I completed my business plan, secured financing, and solidified my first location. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. And yet, it’s not really fair to ask that the company’s money be spent without anyone bothering to build a financial model that can be used to judge success. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, you want to lease your office space in Washington DC, then you need to look for an office space that is spacious and can be easily accessible to your investors, clients, and employees. Draft a Business Plan and Get It Registered. And that’s the part where you need to invest a lot of time and patience.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The DC, Maryland, and Virginia (DMV) region represents the most fertile science and technology region in the country with about $30 billion in federally-funded R&D. We created the DC I-Corps Regional Node to teach the Lean LaunchPad curriculum to top scientists, innovators, and students from around the country and from our region.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I read way too many business plans with overly optimistic projections. I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Groupon, on the other hand, used the more traditional geographic expansion plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

[Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. Yet we all [anyone teaching who actually had founded a company] knew that in all honesty no business plan survives first contact with customers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 2, 2017

We attended an amazing meetup and student pitch event on Thursday March 30 at the Google offices in DC near Union Station — the 100 student DMV meetup.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 9, 2011

I have done most of my interviewing in person, having traveled to Chicago for 5 days and having been all around the Washington DC metro (VA, DC, MD). Over the past few weeks I have begun my research in earnest — specifically collecting data via interviews.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

By testing each failed hypothesis leads to a new pivot, where we change just one element of the business plan (customer segment, feature set, positioning) – but don’t abandon everything we’ve learned. Being systematic about these hypotheses is what customer development is all about.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

At the company level, founders learn about the flaws in their initial plans and adjust the startup’s strategy, business plan,and business model. percent) of new firm founders indicated that their business ideas [had] changed between the time they first identified them and the time when they were surveyed about them.”

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Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 21, 2011

A few weeks back I met Dave, founder of Mike and Cookies , a start-up food truck company in Metro DC. Moreover, this semester, one of my undergraduate student teams is working on a business plan for an organic dog food truck! Dave came up with his idea while a student at the University of Maryland.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 8, 2012

More accelerator news in the DC Metro. From Techcrunch. Hot, new Washington D.C. tech accelerator known as The Fort is debuting its inaugural class of startups today. area tech companies.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Pictured here from left to right, COO John Monterubio, and CEO Tim Richards discussing ReefCam at Net Impact in Washington DC. As you look to start your own business, you may wish to keep the following in mind: Your own interests. A business plan, but a business plan that allows you to make changes as you go.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn? When we’re talking about being disciplined, following our methodology with rigor, continuous improvement, there is no such thing as good enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. If you dont know what the right positioning is for your company, do not launch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. When I have the opportunity to meet startups, they usually have one of these aspects down, and need help with one or two of the others. The most common need is becoming more customer-centric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? It doesn’t say anything about which risks it should be used to mitigate.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

It is prudent for small business owners, who sometimes lag behind in technology innovations, to reach their customers through digital channels. Joseph Meuse is Founder and President of Business GPS which was founded in 2013, with offices in the Washington DC area and in Southern California.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Or what if a new brilliant idea that you hadn’t considered when you were planning emerges? Build in fluidity to your business plans. I’d implemented a business plan including marketing, engagement, sales strategy and realized a few months in that it wasn’t servicing a key influence or in the sales process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. I think its critical technologists understand market segments, even more than market types. I recently took a stab at explaining segments, based on Moores definition Sean mentions above. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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