YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

From product development to market research, many startups are one-person operations in their early days. Even as their teams grow, entrepreneurs often feel that they must tend to every aspect of the business, including low-level tasks that distract from revenue-generating activity. Wearing Your Many Hats With Style.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I have about 11 years in the technology sector including roles doing market research, sales and product development. My focus has been marketing strategy and product development. I’m currently working with several startups, helping them launch new web businesses. Most people think they can do product design.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 7, 2024

Plan Long Term It seems obvious that every company should have a business plan, yet experiencing sudden growth can affect these plans and too many entrepreneurs are eager to leap ahead without considering how it could affect the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start. Initial product development usually consists of prototyping and MVP. Prototyping usually means the initial working draft of the product idea.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 7, 2023

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2016

It’s about what your business does for people that other businesses don’t do. See Also: Business Planning Guide. I’m not sure where this classic positioning statement template started, or whom to credit, but I’ve found it very useful for years of developing business plans. Positioning diagrams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2020

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Even though they sell other frozen items, they are mainly known for their breakfast products. Developing a Business Plan. When developing the business plan, ask yourself the following questions: What type of food are you selling? And with the fleet ready, you can start your frozen food business.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

Creating a Business Plan. Don’t create your business plan entirely from scratch. Once you’re in, huddle with mentors to refine your plan. Product Development. They’re essential, in fact. But that doesn’t mean they can’t stand to shed a few pounds. Marketing and Outreach.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. There were two main benefits for partners who joined the platform: their brand became associated with an eco-friendly company, and their exposure to college students and households in the region helped boost their businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 31, 2014

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2018

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

For a few months, a team of mentors with expertise in sales, financing, business planning, marketing, product development, website design and many other fields will coach an entrepreneur to help create a successful launch and structured plan for future growth.

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Up and Running

MAY 22, 2013

In a consumer product category such as household cleaning products, the industry success rate is a dismal 15 percent to 20 percent according to a Bloomberg Businessweek interview with former Proctor & Gamble CEO, Alan “A.G.” Half the companies in our survey experience budget overruns in new-product development.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

But before you can launch a high-growth company, you’ll need to find the right business plan and create a culture of success. Data-driven” is a popular business buzzword, but unlike some trendy descriptions in the world of commerce, it has more substance than style.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 30, 2016

That means they normally only invest in startups with a working product that has already been sold to at least one customer for full price (beta tests, giveaways and best friends don’t count). They are willing to cover marketing, inventory and scaling, but not product development. Make your focus and priorities clear.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2013

Get planning. If you’ve had an amazing idea swirling around in your mind for a while now, the first step to making it a reality is committing it to paper and writing a business plan. It’s free to sign up to most social media sites, meaning you can save your cash for other things. And the best bit? Keep moving forward.

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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. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I needed several thousand dollars for ads, retainers for an ad specialist, social media personal, PR services, photoshoots, and more. Instead of trying to cut corners, I created a business plan with help from the entrepreneurial group Futurpreneur and secured $45,000 in loans the Business Development Bank of Canada.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Business planning. To start your business, you’ll need a sound business plan. But here at Bplans, we make an effort to provide entrepreneurs with the resources they need to start and run successful businesses. Product development. They can help with development and licensing, too.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This means that you need to be in constant contact with your customers: make it easy for them to contact you , survey them regularly , provide great content for them through your social media channels, and listen closely to what they have to say. A business plan is a great place to start and every business needs one.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

I needed a desk that had features that would give me quick access to a variety of tools; that was large enough for all my mixed media projects; and that was also sturdy enough it could take hammer blows and an occasional brush from a blow torch. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? What do your friends want?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

We often tell founders that a business plan is nonsense. A business model, on the other hand, is a snapshot of your business assumptions at this moment in time. That''s why the most critical attribute of early-stage product development is the ability to learn quickly. This is confirmation bias, and it kills.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Instead of sitting down to write a 40-page business plan, start with a one-page pitch. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods.

Software Review 74

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I pick my cofounder's brain almost daily about the inner workings of our product, so that I can be better informed about the tech side of things. Another key motivator I think is a well-thoughtout business plan and even some initial wireframes/front-end dev. You need to avoid the idea guy and the doer guy problem.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

Where do you see your business in the next 3-5 years? Our 5 to 10 year business plan is centered on new efficiencies within the Ellison consumer purchase funnel. This investment will help us become faster and cut overall costs related to product development without lowering the quality. Carve out a niche.

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Up and Running

JUNE 20, 2016

The competitive matrix is important in a business plan for several reasons. Second, it can develop and explain positioning. Third, it is one of the most obvious, strategic visuals that business plan readers expect. See Also: Highlighting Risks in Your Business Plan Will Help You Get Funding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? Now consider a traditional media business. The value of the attention that the media company collects determines how profitable it is. Sorry about that.)

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2015

Stewart, chairman and chief strategist of IR+Media, LLC. “By SCORE mentors: Either via email or in person, SCORE connects entrepreneurs with volunteer business mentors. Your local Small Business Development Center: Through the U.S. I am always on the lookout for the next great connection,” says Jarvis C.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence. She was ranked 5th on Forbes’ Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer list.

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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. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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