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. Amazon PostRank

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 15, 2018

Create an event of your own which requires you to hire and manage volunteers yourself. · Hiring Staff. Staff are one of the highest overhead costs for a business. Just like an office space, try and put off hiring for as long as possible. Hiring is also a long and time-consuming process. You Need a Business Plan.

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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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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2018

Your business planning should have thrown up how many competitors you have working against you and what they’re offering, so hopefully you have adapted your approach to give clients something unique, a reason to want to come to you. Win awards. For instance, could you be known for being environmentally friendly?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

A few of us have banded together to do this ourselves and are actively working on several projects, including coworking, free startup workshops (our next one in on Jan 7th about product management), jellys etc. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. 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. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Amazon PostRank

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

We started the process of building our company culture early, before we hired any employees, by writing down our desired values. Hiring: We look for people oriented towards (even obsessed with) learning and growth. Folks can use this budget for workshops, CrossFit memberships, museum passes, and more. How can it not?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

The FCEDA has a wide variety of services designed to help businesses at every stage of development, from entrepreneurs to large established businesses. For those thinking about starting one, we have our “Entrepreneurship 101” workshops. A good idea and a good business plan will be find supporters in this area.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 5, 2020

Begin With a Plan. All viable businesses have a business plan. You must define things like whether you expect to continue making jewelry at home or if you will lease space for a workshop and store. In addition, define your niche: what makes your jewelry different and unique?

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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. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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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. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

These are listed in no particular order: The most obvious sign is that you stop receiving as many business plans. Now, I''m down to two or three a week (see the irony.why am I still receiving business plans?). You stop analyzing everything in life as if it were business plan! You have more time at events!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2016

Print A Confidentiality Statement On Your Business Plan. Instead, you might want to print a confidentiality statement on your business plan. Whether you’re hiring a part time or a full time employee, make sure you check out their references and background history. Some may even find it insulting.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Despite the oversaturated market, I saw my opportunity to get it right where no one else did: I created Hawke Media , hired a few people, then went to companies and showed them our no-contract, a la carte options. I believed in the business plan and the opportunity, but I didn’t care about storm drains enough to see it through.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2019

We created a business plan, formed a partnership, came up with a name ( Open House Austin ), merged with another brokerage, recreated new systems, hired an employee, found food truck tenants to rent from us and pay our mortgage, that same employee quit, designed & renovated our space and planned our launch party.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It is based on two videos I normally use in workshops - each of which contains an important entrepreneurship lesson for all of us. Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Four years ago, when I actually started selling my jewelry in shops, I knew very little about starting a business or about writing a business plan. To bridge this gap in my knowledge I decided to participate in Bath Spa University’s annual business planning competition. I set to work.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Gives you the ability to initiate help and sales chats while visitors are on your site.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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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. Amazon PostRank

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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. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Investors and management use an original (therefore unproven) plan as a yardstick, so I often hear funny conversations that effectively go like this: VP Sales: I talked to many customers to see whether they have the problem we hypothesized and whether our solution properly fixed their problem—but none of them said yes. We should pivot.

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Up and Running

JUNE 24, 2010

A lot of SCORE chapters offer workshops to help. My chapter in Eugene OR does a quarterly workshop that puts a collection of experts (I do the business plan section, and colleagues due sections on basic legal, basic administration, hiring and firing, and marketing). Shop around. Look for a good match.

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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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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

OCTOBER 6, 2008

They need to incorporate customer feedback into the product development and business planning process. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I create and host culinary nutrition workshops that allow me to educate clients on the nutritional benefits of the healthy food I am making, while they get to watch me during a live cooking demo and then eat (and drink) the foods that’s being prepared before them. This is where www.ViaMelissa.com/Events was born!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 1, 2019

Now, I launched in 2012 and I hired people like Cliff Ravenscraft too as a tech geek. I do it live during this workshop in under three minutes. Not only an individual goal planning, I think it’s a tremendous … maybe you ought to have a sub freedom journal and created as a business planning too.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When my father had his business plan all set up, he brought it to the rabbi and got a benediction for a successful business. When he left the neighborhood, he decided that because he got a benediction from the rabbi in Crown Heights, he’d name his business (CrownTV’s parent company) Crown Heights.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. I have created a business plan to achieve those goals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. Its as if every customer, whether they are an enterprise, a small business, or an individual consumer, is actually an employer who wants to get things done. Remember Java?

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