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10 Common Startup Mistakes That Are Rarely Admitted

Startup Professionals Musings

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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10 Popular Business Strategies That Most Often Fail

Startup Professionals Musings

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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10 Shortcuts To Startup Success I Don’t Recommend

Startup Professionals Musings

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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10 Paths Which Often Lead To Early Business Failure

Startup Professionals Musings

In that spirit, I offer my perspective on ten common startup failure sources that rarely get admitted by entrepreneurs: Choose to skip the written business plan. A business plan is for you first, not investors. Bypasses intellectual property as not worth the cost. No startup can afford to do these serially.

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Track the Ten Elements of Value for Your Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s because a company’s value is a composite of all of the quantitative and qualitative factors that comprise a company: revenues, expenses, risks, growth prospects, quality of the management team, competitive advantages, strength of the intellectual property, and so forth. His website is [link].

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Patent Search.

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Vertical Markets 4: Putting it All Together « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) You take your product vision and get out of your building to turn your hypothesis into facts. Waterfall, Agile, Lean?

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