Up and Running

OCTOBER 26, 2020

You’ll need to consider the design and build of product pages, setting up shipping and payment processing , and implementing the proper security protocols to protect customer’s data. However, it’s not easy to do this on your own, and you should expect to hire a skilled developer to implement some of the more complex steps.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2022

While you don’t have to be a financial professional, understanding the basics of business finance is still important for tracking your budgets and overall financial performance. Once your startup begins to grow, you might want to hire a professional with more experience in finances to focus on this part of your business.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 29, 2019

You may want to be a consultant, a coach, a designer, or a writer. Though you may be tempted to immediately throw yourself into your new small business, don’t forget a crucial element: creating a business plan. The Lean Plan for solopreneurs. Include only what’s needed in your Lean Business Plan.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

A great business plan can help you anticipate important issues and possible challenges before you start your business. In fact, studies show that entrepreneurs who take the time to write a business plan are 2.5 times more likely to follow through and get their business off the ground. This is a mistake.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Capturing and analyzing data enables companies to get insights that benefit their companies in cost-saving, relevant marketing, product development, etc. With appropriate data analytics, a business can predict and comprehend the market, competition, customer demands, etc.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2020

For example, in a retail store, the list might include writing an initial business plan, choosing a location, fix-up and fixtures, signage, initial stock, staffing, and marketing your launch. Do a lean business plan. Develop a lean business plan. Maybe this means that your idea just failed the test.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For most SBA loans, you’ll need to put together a business plan—one that shows how funds will be used and how the business will repay the loan over time. While this is not too different from a traditional business plan, there are some important details that you’ll need to pay attention to.

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Up and Running

JULY 15, 2020

So if you want your business to be successful you’ll want to start with a business plan first. Not having a business plan is one of the primary reasons businesses fail and it’s an easy first step that you can start for free. Why write a business plan for your eCommerce business?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Learn why the traditional way of writing a five-year business plan is often a waste of time and how to use a Lean Plan instead for smarter, easier strategic planning to establish your long-term vision. But, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t plan for the long term. What is a long-term plan?

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Business Plan Lean Forecast Exit Strategy 83

Up and Running

MAY 14, 2020

Now it’s time to write a business plan to officially bring your style to the world. Is it really necessary to write a business plan for your retail clothing boutique? Think of it as a way of answering the question of why does the world need your small business? Every business plan must contain an executive summary.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Vision Synching in a Lean Startup The Fallacy of Customer Development Entrepreneurs, Lower Investors’ Risk by Validating your Start-up Company’s Business Proposition Lessons Learned: What is customer development? billion dollar mistake.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2020

But now you may be asking yourself, is it really necessary to write a business plan for your bakery? Your business plan will be instrumental in securing funding. But even if you’re not looking for funding, writing a business plan will help you successfully open your bakery. Executive Summary.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2020

Resources for starting a transportation business. Transportation business plan samples. How to start a non-emergency medical transport business. Free downloadable business plan template . 44 percent of businesses plan to increase tech spending in 2020, up from 38 percent in 2019. Technology.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Develop a Business Plan. It’s been proven that planning makes you more successful. Beyond writing a business plan to acquire funding (if that’s what you need), a business plan can help keep you on track to meet your milestones and goals. Determine what type of business plan is right for you .

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

About 60% of the business development plans fail to achieve their goals, and what is worse, many fail to materialize within the first year. These days, business development has become one of the main activities of the organizations, which continuously prospect the market looking for new niches to expand further growth.

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Developer Cofounder Channel Business Plan 182

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. And even you could work 70 on-task hours per week, that's still blown away by 10 developers at a funded company or even 10 passionate open source developers working part-time.

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Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. It’s time to dig into the process of actually writing a business plan. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll take you through every stage of writing a business plan that will actually help you achieve your goals.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Developing a cannabis cultivation business requires significant planning, dedication, and focus. Initially, you’ll need to develop a solid plan to provide a steady direction for the project. In this article, you will learn how to build a successful business plan for your cannabis grow operation.

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Business Plan Harvest Oregon Nevada 72

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 15, 2017

by Hal Shelton, SCORE mentor, angel investor, and author of “ The Secrets to Writing a Successful Business Plan: A Pro Shares A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Plan That Gets Results “ Running a business without a plan is like running down the street with a blindfold on. What Is a Business Plan?

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Business Plan Angel Investor Audience Forecast 113

Up and Running

JULY 8, 2014

Nonprofit organizations share many overlapping needs with traditional for-profit ventures, including the need for a good business plan. At some point in the process of starting or managing your nonprofit, you will probably realize that you need a business plan. Write for your business purpose. Who will read it?

Business Plan 127

Business Plan Non-Compete Forecast Programming 127

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Business Plan. With a game plan in mind, you will need to figure out how you intend to set your company apart from the rest of the players in the market. If you have done the research, you might’ve seen that the moving industry is packed with amateurs who offer low prices and have weak long term plans.

Advertising 264

Advertising Forecast Social Media Business Plan 264

Steve Blank

MARCH 5, 2012

One of the confusing things to entrepreneurs, investors and educators is the relationship between customer development and business model design and business planning and execution. When does a new venture focus on customer development and business models ? Don’t Throw the Tomatoes.

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Search Business Model Customer Development Agile 324

Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

This article is part of our “ Business Planning Guide “ —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! What is a business plan? In its simplest form, a business plan is a guide—a roadmap for your business that outlines goals and details how you plan to achieve those goals.

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Business Plan Technical Review Lean Forecast 119

NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2019

What do investors want to see in a business plan? Early stage business investors such as angel investors or venture capital companies are generally only interested in companies with great potential for success and a high return on investment. How large is the target market? Which markets can be opened up?

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Business Plan Forecast Venture Capital Angel Investor 51

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.)

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

MAY 23, 2016

Established businesses execute business models while startups search for them. I was a lone voice inside one of the country’s leading business schools challenging the conventional wisdom of the last 40 years, proposing that everything we were teaching about starting companies was wrong. Congratulations class of 2016.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

Lean 292

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 292

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy.

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 228

Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

Some have already decided and are in the process of writing a business plan. They’re asking questions: What should a tutoring agency include in their business plan? How do you write an executive summary for a car washing business? In fact, it’s the micro businesses that win all the points.

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Business Plan Technical Review eCommerce Connecticut 60

OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 2: Defining and Testing the Story…Start Out By Admitting You’re Wrong, A Lean Business Plan Template, Problem, Solution, Key Metrics, Unique Value Proposition and Unfair Advantages, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. Chapter 3: Telling the Story to Your Investors…The Business Plan is Dead.

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Startup Advisory Board Elevator Pitch Forecast 95

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2012

Most startup founders know exactly what they want to design and sell, and they are personally convinced that everyone will buy one. Business plans with no “industry expert” data on your target opportunity size and growth are routinely rejected. Check local economic development offices.

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Marketing Entrepreneur Forecast Business Plan 243

Steve Blank

MAY 14, 2012

The excerpts, which appeared first at Inc.com , highlight the Customer Development process, best practices, tips and instructions contained in our book. These founders specify, design, and build a fully featured product using classic product development methods without ever leaving their building.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

There are several different types of business plans that can help you stay on track. If you’re seeking a bank loan or outside investment, you probably need a traditional business plan. But if you’re writing a plan as an internal guide for strategic growth, you should consider a lighter version— a Lean Plan.

Business Plan 63

Business Plan Curation Balance Sheet Intellectual Property 63

Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

Lean 184

Lean Agile Customer Development Business Model 184

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Write a business plan. After you’ve come up with answers concerning your future company and product, it’s high time to map out the business in a concrete and viable way. A business plan is a must for every startup. If you’ve never written anything like that, browse the Net for business plan samples and templates.

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Startup Social Media Forecast Early Stage 160

Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2021

While producing and stocking items is cheaper with an online storefront than a brick-and-mortar hub, businesses must now take the time to develop and operate their websites. Companies — particularly small businesses — need to develop new capabilities and train new staff, often from scratch. Create a watertight life raft.

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eCommerce Stock Forecast Green 115