Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2010

I think my startup is going to fail even before I get funded.” He said, “After we graduated we took our great idea, holed up in my apartment and spent months researching and writing a business plan. We even entered it in the business plan competition. We even entered it in the business plan competition.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. Not all startups have to reinvent the wheel.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails. Don’t take money, especially start–up loans, from unsophisticated investors. .

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world of startups is a bit like a gold rush right now: there’s lots of money to be made, almost no rules regarding who will make or lose it, and only a few will actually see a sustained profit at the end of the day. That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with startups that can’t initially generate cash. More Choice.

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Board Effect

JUNE 9, 2021

Thousands of great ideas never come to fruition because business owners and founders of nonprofit organizations aren’t familiar with the startup business grant process. They simply don’t have the seed money to get a business or organization off the ground. What Is a Startup Business Grant?

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

It allows participants to avoid the many pitfalls — including a lack of investment and a shortage in the mentoring support needed to build strong business plans — that can torpedo great ideas. The post Innovation at Argonne National Laboratory Incubator appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Source: Pexels. R&D Catalysts.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

by Rocky Chan, business consultant for Enterph.com. Startups caught the attention of venture capitalists as far back as three decades ago. At the time, most startups were from the internet’s dot com side of businesses, as the outlook was bullish then. Things You Need to Know About Starting a Startup Business.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2017

More of us than ever are considering a startup as the solution to our career problems. So just how do you go about starting a startup? One of the most crucial parts of starting a startup is having a great idea. That’s exactly what ‘the big idea’ behind a startup has to be; forward thinking. Forward Thinking Is Key.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The world of startups is a bit like a gold rush right now: there’s lots of money to be made, almost no rules regarding who will make or lose it, and only a few will actually see a sustained profit at the end of the day. That’s not to say that there’s anything wrong with startups that can’t initially generate cash. More Choice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2013

Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret. I have a personal diligence rule that when speaking to people at large companies, the facts that they tell you are very useful but their opinions about startup ideas no more valuable than any other smart person’s opinions). just for hearing the basic idea of their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

Entrepreneur 264

Entrepreneur Seed Money Social Network Business Plan 264

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. It's a huge opportunity to learn early.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

You don’t have to look far to find evidence that we’re in another prolonged startup boom. Data from 2016 showed the percentage of job seekers starting their own business was the highest it had been in four years. This trend continued in 2017 , and all signs suggest that 2018 will have similar startup growth. This is good news.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

Too many startups fail simply by missing the practical elements of money management, time management, and setting priorities. Build a business plan early on. There is nothing like writing and pitching a business plan that makes you realize what you don’t know. It’s a huge opportunity to learn early.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2015

They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. See Also How to Raise Startup Funding from Unlikely Angel Investors. An old standby for a good reason—your local Small Business Development Center is an excellent resource for information on a variety of business-related topics.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Despite earning Oprah money and minting more than 150 millionaires with six successful exits, including Splunk, currently valued at more than $5 billion, Baum has yet to retire. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

JULY 27, 2013

Using crowdfunding for your startup venture is much like crowdsurfing a rock concert — and also carries the same hazards that, at any moment, someone might drop you to the ground. So why shouldn’t you skip traditional investors and take your business plan straight to the people? Investors provide guidance.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. The problem, of course, comes if the business fails.

Valuation 48

Valuation Startup Seed Money Early Stage 48

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

He is also the founder of Hallspot , a new social networking site exclusively for college students that has raised hundreds of thousands in seed money and will launch on September 27 at Thorne’s alma mater, where more than 6,000 students have pre-registered for the service.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. Once you take money from the generalpublic youre more restricted in what you can do. [

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www.paulgraham.com

AUGUST 1, 2008

Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper. Now as well as being produced by startups, this pattern is happening to startups. Its so cheap to start web startups that orders of magnitudes more will be started. Plus in a startup you could make much more money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Time and time again, experts in entrepreneurship and business (often with little to no operating experience of their own) offer formulaic advice on what startups must do to succeed. Startups are the epitome of unpredictability and extremes. Myth #1: You need a complete, elaborate and detailed business plan from day one.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Googles Money. Paul Graham is warning startups against "lowball offers.". What Its Really Like To Go Through Y Combinator, The Most Important Startup School In The World. This Chart Shows Why VCs Are Willing To Give Hyped Startups Absurd Valuations.

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