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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Department of Labor just announced that $35 million in funds were available to “develop, enhance and promote SEA programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. You can’t just say you’re starting a business to qualify for the SEA program. Although the U.S. Who Qualifies?

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2013

In addition, if your business operates in California, Hawaii, New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, or Rhode Island, you are required to carry disability insurance. Finding the right insurance is a crucial part of Small Business Management 101. Business Planning Legal and Taxes insurance'

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

territory including the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. In order to apply for a CDC/504 loan, you will need a business plan , management expertise and a ‘good character’. Do business or propose to do business in U.S. You can apply for an SBA Loan if you are part of a U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

That’s one of the areas that most people just, start a business. It’s part of the business planning that the folks over at LivePlan help you with. We can talk all day about specifics, what-if scenarios on the business deductions, meaning, “Should I run the car through the business as an auto expense?

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong. 39 years ago I got on that plane and never went back.

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