Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2012

A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Innovate to market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Instead of an embarrassing gap in your resume for your period out of work, you have an entry for your startup business, showing initiative, leadership, and breadth of experience. Practice developing a business plan. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Fun learning experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

A business plan I saw a while back to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Innovate to market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2015

Instead of an embarrassing gap in your resume for your period out of work, you have an entry for your startup business, showing initiative, leadership, and breadth of experience. Practice developing a business plan. Use social networking and blogging to get your message out. Fun learning experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Of course, that means a new level of risk, giving up some control, and a new business plan. Most entrepreneurs are mavericks, and their passion drove their new business. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

A business plan I saw recently to combine all the good features of several popular social networks on one site does not do it. Proving market leadership. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

You know, could you look at my business plan? See if the business model works, all these questions. So I tell those people, pick a, what we call lifestyle business, pick a business, what you can run with you and maybe a few other people or by yourself, and be really happy and earn a good income. They're all there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

Marty: How has the social networking world changed since you started your first book on the subject? Build a business plan first. Marty: Lon, thank you very much for your insights and your continuing role-model leadership for all of us, and best of luck in all your ventures! Lon: There is more noise and confusion.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned – Business Planning Stage My advice to entrepreneurs working on a new business plan is to build a model similar to those above to estimate the cost of customer acquisition. Extensive use of software to automate all processes such as SEO, SEM, social networking, lead scoring, lead nurturing, CRM, etc.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

While these objectives provide an illusion of progress, in reality they do little to validate the business plan hypotheses about customers and what they will buy. The plan calls for selling in volume the day Engineering is finished building the product. What plan says that?

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I generally get asked about skills required (leadership, tolerance for ambiguity, risk taking, persistence, opportunity recognition, etc.), Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Most companies are started to address a problem faced either in the workplace or as a consumer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Start in a business domain you know well. Since there are no bellwethers like Apple or IBM in the startup arena, your best bet is to pick one in a business area you know well. Don’t be fooled by thinking that social networks are hot, so you should invest in the next startup you see in that realm.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. This means the first order of business is to get it to work.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Reply You don’t need a business plan yet: 7 ideas for Customer Development « Information Maven: Greg Meyer , on May 22, 2011 at 7:37 am said: [.] further along in the information you’ll need to build your business plan. Steve Blank lists some great tools for startups that will help you in this [.]

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