Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Self-sustainability, independence, and real fun requires paying customers, profitability and an early cash-flow-positive business plan. Use your equity for key executives and business partners. Don’t assume you must plan for exponential growth. Bootstrapping doesn’t mean that you don’t share equity. Marty Zwilling

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! What are the most common mistakes when writing a business plan ? Too many businesses make business plans only when they have no choice in the matter. I can’t plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Self-sustainability, independence, and real fun requires paying customers, profitability and an early cash-flow-positive business plan. Use your equity for key executives and business partners. Don’t assume you must plan for exponential growth. Bootstrapping doesn’t mean that you don’t share equity. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2017

Or, you just don’t want to write a lengthy business plan. While we’re big advocates of the simpler, faster Lean Planning method, doing just a sales forecast is also an effective way to quickly validate your initial assumptions before writing up a business plan. Top Startup Mistake: Unrealistic Forecasts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Self-sustainability, independence, and real fun requires paying customers, profitability and an early cash-flow-positive business plan. Use your equity for key executives and business partners. Don’t assume you must plan for exponential growth. Bootstrapping doesn’t mean that you don’t share equity.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

The day we set foot into the doors of the accelerator, we had a business that DHH would be proud of. Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. Business Planning Finance business accelerator failure startup tech'

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Professor VC

JUNE 7, 2018

For example, many visitors are surprised that nobody prepares business plans to raise funding. I am a strong believer in the new school of entrepreneurship education (lean startup, customer discovery, etc.). And when I think about, it shouldn't make sense to those of us here.

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