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Start Business Planning Now For The Holiday Season

Startup Professionals Musings

But no matter where you live in the world, you should use the holidays to give thanks for the positives in your life and your business. Yet you can never forget the seasonal business cash flow and activity demands that are approaching, so to be prepared – you need to start the planning now.

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6 Tips for Small Businesses Re-opening After LockDown

Women Entrepreneurs Can

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. Audit Your Old Stock and Content.

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Is Your Business Equipped for the Exponential Growth of eCommerce?

Up and Running

As business leaders navigate and seize opportunities in this new and expanded market, they’ll inevitably face a few roadblocks. For example, supply chains will now seem outdated; the ways we move and stock products will need reinvention. New business realities also bring new responsibilities. Create a watertight life raft.

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Create a New Business Bubble, Don’t Chase Old Ones

Startup Professionals Musings

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). Overconfidence.

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Avoid Startup Opportunity Bubbles Ready To Burst

Startup Professionals Musings

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. Supply and demand ignored. We all believe that supply and demand meet to create stable prices (reflexive). Overconfidence.

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Guy Kawasaki’s 10 Questions to Ask Before You Join a Startup

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Go there now » Sign up or log in to mint.com Updates Drop Your Debt to Win 2 comments How To The Top 5 Customer Complaint Letters — And What You Can Learn From Them 5 comments Investing In Graphics: What Is a Stock? If the answer is, “Scaling fast enough for our anticipated demand,” try not to laugh. Live your life.

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My story: Fail locally, one customer at a time.

Berkonomics

I can’t imagine encouraging an entrepreneur to follow in my path, but for me, operating alone with no board of advisors, no business plan and no outside capital, I was making it up as I went. On the West Coast, where I started, the stock market closed at 1 pm and that’s when my customers wanted to see me.