The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Seed capital is a component of the initial investments made in young businesses. During the pre-seed fundraising stage, investors need a viable business plan to base their investments on.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

After 20 years of working in startups, I decided to take a step back and look at the product development model I had been following and see why it usually failed to provide useful guidance in activities outside the building – sales, marketing and business development. So what’s wrong the product development model?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. Reducing product turn time. Specifically, we show that OPD leads to: Increasing the ability to pivot.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

He nails the current key startup parameters, including the following: Crafting a lean business plan as your road map. The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Rounding out the team with employees and freelancers. The cost of social media done well is low.

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Business Plan Blog

AUGUST 20, 2013

In order to be a successful tech startup, the team must consist of a Chief Technical Officer (CTO) level member to help with the technology plan. CTO Employee (Salary). Web Development Firm hired to do “Conceptualization Phase” – This usually includes thorough wire-framing (Paid per project). Wireframes.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Plan Long Term It seems obvious that every company should have a business plan, yet experiencing sudden growth can affect these plans and too many entrepreneurs are eager to leap ahead without considering how it could affect the business.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2018

Sometimes, it’s the lack of a proper business plan that really hurts the startup. If the business was launched off of a vision, product idea or loose handshake agreements, but there was no due diligence in building a thorough business case, then the unknowns can sweep in and cripple forward momentum.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

In many cases, your advisor will identify key employees and create a business plan to help you find a buyer and negotiate the best price possible. Identifying key employees. In addition, your employees may have insight into how much value they bring to the company. Creating a business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. According to one study a decade ago, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Build relationships with known business leaders. To be a leader, you have to be willing to be a public figure , and display the right attributes.

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Stealth Leadership Viral Social Media 362

YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping usually means the initial working draft of the product idea.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. And it may work.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 18, 2015

I’ve spent a lot of years as theoretically being my own boss, including more than 10 years as sole proprietor business planning consultant, working on my own with clients; and more than 10 years building a company, as founder and owner, working with employees. In a business, the health of the business is your boss.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

It describes the product/service, who is it for, what channel sells/deliver it, how demand is created, how does the company make money, etc. Somewhere in the dim past of the company, it too was a startup searching for a business model. They measure their success on metrics that reflect success in execution, and they reward execution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 244

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Employees (include salaries and benefits, like insurance and retirement contributions). Your business also has fluctuating expenses. Things like product development, materials and packaging, performance-based bonuses, and more. Map out your plan for growth. Examples of known expenses include: Rent. Utility bills.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

And as they do, sometimes even unknowingly that beautiful dream of a business exit and financial windfall recedes depressingly into the sunset. Putting out there as to what our financial results will be , and why - in the form of well-documented and reasoned financial forecasts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 25, 2012

Psychology and business have more in common than you think. This book applies Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to relationships between businesses and their employees, investors, and customers. The Unwritten Laws of Business by W.J. As much as we hate to admit it, our business decisions may not always be based on reality.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

of our company in exchange for the $300K, and my business partner and I each diluted from 50% ownership down to 33.3% Do they (or does the firm they work for) have experience creating compensation packages for key employees, including stock options for all employees? The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3%

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Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence Dilution 118

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. We recently used customer preference data collected by automated feedback mechanisms to create a product upgrade that is generations ahead of our competitors’ product offerings. They are correct.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. But if you are going to have somebody who's developing a product, developing a new technology, designing, or going out into marketing and figuring out new ways to market, you really need a thinker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. According to one study , only 45% of Founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. This is a common mistake. That doesnt work (you can stop laughing now).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2013

Incorporate your startup after the business plan, but before you spend a dollar on product development. In addition, corporations have quarterly filing requirements, and even monthly ones, if you collect sales taxes and hire employees. Upgrade your business entity as required.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2011

The VP of an operating division had run into trouble in product development; the product was late and getting later. The revenue plan had the new product baked into the numbers and it was clear that this division General Manager was going to crater his forecast (happens all the time, nothing new here.)

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Business Plan Blog

JUNE 3, 2013

By doing this process, you’ll avoid over-engineering, you’ll be much more efficient, you’ll spend far less on product development and employee costs and you’ll wind up with a much more narrowed target market to focus your limited sales and marketing budget on. Comments comments Powered by Facebook Comments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

By definition, second-stage ventures generally have 10 to 99 employees and/or $750,000 to $50 million in revenue, and see that as just the beginning. According to one study a while back, only 45% of founders plan to exit after stage one, and my guess is that less than half the remainder survive the next stage in their own company.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. In the grander scheme of that business, we had much more important issues to handle.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2013

Get planning. If you’ve had an amazing idea swirling around in your mind for a while now, the first step to making it a reality is committing it to paper and writing a business plan. It can be tempting to want to take on everything yourself when you set up a business, after all it’s your baby.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2016

This resource maintained by the United States Department of Labor is intended for both employees and employers within the construction industry. Here you’ll find articles on outstanding workplaces, information and coverage of commercial interior products and product development trends, and in-depth stories from people in the know.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Businesses that clearly define their short-term and long-term goals tend to achieve their goals faster and more efficiently than those without any plan. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners where they forecast their business will be in the next five years. #1- 10- Redefining the space of business plan consultancy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2012

Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model. Getting to Plan B encourages startups to realize that business plans often change, and in fact, your success as a startup depends on your ability to do just that. Read this book to find out how to stress test your Plan A and reconfigure it for success.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2014

When you’re a small business owner, it’s imperative to take on a lot of the tasks yourself, especially in the early stages of running a business. How many of us have found ourselves needing to do a little bit of finance, customer service, marketing or product development at any given point?

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Small businesses in particular rely on word of mouth and recommendations, so the better your relationship with them, the stronger your communications with them, the greater the WOM effect will be. This applies whether the focus is on product development, strategy, hiring, or positioning in the market. Disciplined.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

He is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management, the executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and the co-founder of Today we're going to talk about his new book, disciplined Entrepreneurship Startup Tactics, 15 Tactics to Turn Your Business Plan into a Business.

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