Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2017

The technical assistance and workshops help improve business skills in strategic planning, accounting, and marketing to ensure the business will be sustainable. Accion also provides microfinance and larger loans to small businesses throughout the United States. CDFI program awardees financed 13,300 businesses.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

With improving awareness of our services within the Texas market, we plan to be able to expand our team and establish the framework for our roots in DFW. Right now our solutions are HR-centric but over the next five years, we plan on scaling our products to IT, Finance, Legal, and other aspects of an organization.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2017

PPMs are lengthy documents that include risk factors, financial projections, business plan information, etc. In less dense ecosystems, however, I do occasionally encounter tech companies who are told by advisors, lawyers, or other players that they need a PPM to close on financing. Do I need a PPM for my startup’s financing?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2019

It also requires a comprehensive business plan, sufficient funding, an effective development team, great marketing and sales staff, intellectual property protection, effective management, careful accounting, and (of course) customers. Deadline for this competition is end of day on Monday, April 8.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Jack Wilson, owner of Radio Coffee and Beer in Austin, Texas, and Marc Renson, owner of Ambition Bistro in Schenectady, New York, stepped away from brewing and serving to offer these tips to prospective owners. Create a solid business plan. Many entrepreneurs turn to our business plan templates for guidance.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

This week they broadened the discussion with interviews with the city planner in Mariposa, Texas and the city engineer from Rapid City, South Dakota. Where is the best place for your business? Include people, hardware, software, prototypes, financing, etc. They worked on understanding their partners.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

You’re constantly critically analyze the gaps in someone’s business plan. Business comes down to relationships and building trust, said Ajay, who is the son of Indian immigrants and grew up in Texas. If I’m hanging out with a bunch of guys in Texas, how can I connect and relate to them?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 28, 2016

You’re constantly critically analyze the gaps in someone’s business plan. Business comes down to relationships and building trust, said Ajay, who is the son of Indian immigrants and grew up in Texas. If I’m hanging out with a bunch of guys in Texas, how can I connect and relate to them?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The SBDCs are financed by three mostly public sources: the federal government (through the SBA), state governments and local education. This comes to mind because I’m traveling this week to attend the annual conference of the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) in San Antonio, Texas.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2019

So, we formed a partnership and started making plans and trying to figure out how to get this property under contract. If you’ve ever tried to buy a commercial property, you know that it can be hard to get financing for a small deal like this. He built-out his entire 43ft shop on his own in the past three months in the Texas heat.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 19, 2017

Two conversations from earlier this week stand out for me - the first with the General Manager of a North Carolina war memorial museum and the second with the CEO a $50 million+ revenue Texas - based satellite services business. The Texas satellite business CEO had a similar set of “declining sales / increasing costs” challenges.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 13, 2016

I recently moderated a strategic planning session for a Texas-based developer and distributor of specialty software for the financial services industry.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of “formal business processes.” Develop your business plan. Prominent investors including Mark Suster and Seth Levine weighed in (I highly recommend reading their posts).

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

I’ve included the full audio and slide deck above, and the full transcript below: 5 Critical Tips to Reduce Your Business Taxes This Year. White and Associates—based out of Plano, Texas—joining us, to help give some advice about taxes and small businesses, and obviously, ’tis the season right now. Sabrina : Exactly.

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