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. Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Altgate

APRIL 25, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← HBS Student Business Plan Contest Finalists CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike → 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco Posted on April 25, 2010 by fnazeeri I love stuff like this.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The point is that none of the three R’s can live in a vacuum; as a manager, a small business owner, an high-growth entrepreneur you need to develop your own framework for moving forward positively and confidently. Photo: San Francisco Bay Bridge, old span and new by Frank Schulenburg/Wikimedia Commons. The Business Plan.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 3, 2019

Furthermore, not only that LA is a fertile ground for startups, but it’s also affordable for a living when compared to San Francisco, for example. Buying a beautiful house with a yard and a pool is much cheaper than buying an apartment in San Francisco. And the market is active as well.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

The contest was sponsored by Palo Alto Software , which provided free access to LivePlan , its cloud-based business planning software, to all of the Boost entrants. “ So who were the hard-working businessmen and women behind the winning business plans? . Within a year, Freja hopes to be selling VegiMeat in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. They just havd faith in me. Now why would investors shy away from that?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Let’s say you have a great business idea that leverages the power of technology to meet a certain consumer or lifestyle need. If you believe that your idea is worth the effort of putting together a business plan and going through the development and funding process, you may have a potentially lucrative tech startup.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. San Diego Events ›. San Francisco Events ›. San Diego Home. San Diego Events. San Diego Jobs. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. And yet, it’s not really fair to ask that the company’s money be spent without anyone bothering to build a financial model that can be used to judge success.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 4, 2013

Start by asking yourself these questions: Is there room in the market for one more business and if so, does the market want specifically what you are offering? Avoid proceeding without a business plan. Because I used my own, I did not see the need to create a plan, but I was completely wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. We just had our app support a few tens of thousands of customers, and it did well. Looking back, that was a special moment. Amazon PostRank

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Bad Habit #3: Insisting on untested and detailed business plans. Most established companies require detailed business plans for new ideas. Business plans actually maximize the risk of failure because of the focus on executing an unproven idea rather than testing it. Don’t ask innovators for business plans.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. “ nobody wins if you go out of business&# – On Pricing – [link]. Business plans for entrepreneurs: the three ‘Rs’ – Part I – [link]. Way to go San Francisco! SPEC Campaign [link].

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 31, 2013

Seed funding in the San Francisco area appears to be on pace for another record year. Seed funding to both San Francisco and Silicon Valley reached over $192M across 242 deals in the first half of 2013 alone. Seed VC Funding in Bay Area on Pace for Record Year.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Start With a Business Model, Not a Business Plan | WSJ – [link]. Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – [link]. Apple’s Problem: Google Is Getting Better At Design | Business Insider – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

To be one of the success stories, not only do you need a solid business model, you also must learn to manage the stress which comes along with running an empire. A good business plan provides the best start, but avoiding excessive stress and burnout is what will sustain you over the long haul. What Stress Is. Jeff Nalin, Psy.D

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Altgate

APRIL 12, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged Boston , HBS student business plan contest , startup. ← More “Open Source&# Legal Tools 104 Year Old Video of San Francisco → Comments are closed. Apparently there are 12 semifinalists (listed below).

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Business Plan Blog

JULY 18, 2013

As we can see, Boulder came in third behind San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara (AKA Silicon Valley) and San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont. While San Francisco appears to be beaten out by Silicon Valley in terms of venture capital activity, we have to keep in mind how population is affecting this number.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Well … I have had many late nights and I really didn’t contemplate writing many blog postings this month because I spent November in this interesting venture capital / fund raising dance involving lots of late night sessions reviewing legal documents, rewriting business plans and preparing for pitches.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2014

The Honorable Edward B.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2012

Through a business plan competition, Arch Grants selects promising startups to receive $50,000. Brad Pittenger, the CEO of IT solutions provider XIOLINK , reviewed more than a dozen business plans as a recent Arch Grants judge. Many startup entrepreneurs are curious about what the judges at these competitions look for.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To enter the competition, submit your application , your "napkin business plan," and film a quick video pitch. As the competition follows Steve Blank's argument that "startups plan while companies model," the competition is focused on business models rather than business plans.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Bad Habit #3: Insisting on untested and detailed business plans. Most established companies require detailed business plans for new ideas. Business plans actually maximize the risk of failure because of the focus on executing an unproven idea rather than testing it. Don’t ask innovators for business plans.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 8, 2020

San Francisco. Enjoy the wide choice of four and five star spas in its hotels, as well as its independent wellness centers to rejuvenate, relax and enjoy. Also, from the various yoga and fitness studios or green places for meditation. A great place for a sports company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Amazon PostRank

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc. How do you determine who’s right for your company? 500|5000 Copyright © 2010 Mansueto Ventures LLC.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 14, 2016

Understanding the data about the entire ecosystem is the key to making informed business decisions. When working on a business plan, you need to look at a few different aspects of an industry to grasp how it functions. Your business decisions can only improve by taking a thorough look at the industry ecosystem.

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Up and Running

APRIL 7, 2013

Back to the StartupBus… Already so many great technologies, so many terrific business ideas, so when a 9 (nine) person team from the San Francisco bus stepped on stage I was prepared for the world as we know it to change forever. Who do these San Franciscoans think they’re fooling?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2016

For example, customers in the San Francisco bay area might require internet-based marketing, whereas customers in a rural area might require a different approach. Regardless of whether you are a real estate agent or a real estate developer, you will need a real estate development business plan. Develop brand awareness.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2010

The 400 people who filled the conference room in San Francisco and thousands who watched it across the world shared this belief. Business Plans Versus Business Models at 14:08. Watch the expanded version of “ Why Accountants Don’t Run Startups below. Not All Startups Are Equal starts at 7:30.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Guest author and public speaker Michael Tchong is the founder of Social Revolution , a San Francisco-based change agency, which seeks to transform the future through innovation and reinvention. Could this hors d'oeuvre approach to venture capital help keep innovators properly fed? I’m betting dinner on it.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 6, 2011

I read way too many business plans with overly optimistic projections. I'm talking plans showing the entrepreneurs generating tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues in just a few years. Groupon, on the other hand, used the more traditional geographic expansion plan.

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Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2010

My friend, on the other hand, would move from where he wants to live (I think — although maybe that’s just where he is) to where business is better. I have another friend who moved from Italy to the San Francisco Bay area to be where business is better. That didn’t work out.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense. Amazon PostRank

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