YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2011

In the ’80s, Cuban worked as a salesman at a computer store, but found himself more interested in working on computers and developing business plans rather than manning a cash register and sweeping the floors. Cycling star and seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong didn’t always come out on top. Michael Bloomberg.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Youll probably get a better result, anyway.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. They just havd faith in me. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services.

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San Francisco Technology Continuous Deployment Lean 68

Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

If you’re from a “Western country”—North America or the UK—chances are, a good firm handshake says, “I respect both of our organizations, you, myself, and our future, and I’ve come to do some business.” ” However, in Japan, Saudi Arabia, and even France, it means something different. Here’s How to Fix It.

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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. For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

I then noticed that our head of sales in France had created almost a manufacturing process for responding to RFPs. He knew that he could compete for a lot more business if he could minimize the amount of time his team spent preparing these time-sucking documents.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Thanks for sharing Sophie Dupont Business Development Director SD-Efficiency Paris - France. At one point in this post, Philippe says "Gary typically based his *sales board plan* at 70% of sales quota. By sales board plan, are you referring to Gary's actual business planning forecasts? Thank you!!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

The Founder’s gut wrongly tells them their business plan has been validated because they received an investment. You have to execute the business plan without executing yourself. When I was growing up in France, I was always a tinkerer, and proud of it. But I don’t think the competitor is your biggest danger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. And yet, it’s not really fair to ask that the company’s money be spent without anyone bothering to build a financial model that can be used to judge success. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

As part of the family deal, we moved from the Bay Area to Paris so we could enjoy an international experience and they love France. I appreciate the support of my wife and twin sons. Now I live on airplanes and the TGV train. I started Founder.org in 2012. Student teams compete to participate in our program.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

views per person, or France, where Daily Motion is located, which averages 7.13 Pricing : If you’re a small business, plans start at $12/month, with a maximum of 50,000 video plays. Anything over that falls into the Business plan, charged at $50/month for up to 150,000 plays. views per person). views per person.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I also want to dream of having fast cars and big houses on the south coast of France (both of which I’ll probably have no desire to purchase should I accomplish my goals!). Starting my own business has given me a freedom I never had before and a control of my destiny that no salaried job could never offer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Even the governments are doing their part, like it or not, as is the case in France and Germany. Your chance of getting my attention for your business plan is significantly better if I can connect your email with a face. Sources of support and capital such as Seedcamp have established themselves. So why the lack of energy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

By testing each failed hypothesis leads to a new pivot, where we change just one element of the business plan (customer segment, feature set, positioning) – but don’t abandon everything we’ve learned. Being systematic about these hypotheses is what customer development is all about.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn? When we’re talking about being disciplined, following our methodology with rigor, continuous improvement, there is no such thing as good enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. If you dont know what the right positioning is for your company, do not launch.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. When I have the opportunity to meet startups, they usually have one of these aspects down, and need help with one or two of the others. The most common need is becoming more customer-centric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? It doesn’t say anything about which risks it should be used to mitigate.

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Up and Running

MARCH 23, 2016

Many years ago when I was in France, my brother (also a chef) and I opened a small restaurant together—30 seats so not a big operation. Other resources: One visit to Amazon.com will give you numerous options for published guides on starting a catering business. This is a lesson he has learned personally.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

When it comes to the right time to go after funding, Kashyap says, “Founders should raise money after they have developed a solid business plan and require additional capital to develop or expand their business.&# And don’t wait — just e-mail me at brad@feld.com and I’ll respond quickly.&#

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

He said that you need a reliable business plan, six months of cash on hand, and cheap labor. Hopefully next time you will make more sense and will talk less on obvious things. Eli abhay, Aaron Patzer said the most on this topic. His presentation makes me think of that Kung Fu Panda movie: there is no secret recipe.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. I think its critical technologists understand market segments, even more than market types. I recently took a stab at explaining segments, based on Moores definition Sean mentions above. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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