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. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Youll probably get a better result, anyway.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

PR alone cannot add income to your bottom line; the reason being is that public relations has to be part of an overall business plan. When I meet with a client I always ask, “Can I see your business plan?” When I create a PR program for them, I am supporting their business objectives. That’s not going to happen.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2012

Slow growth should continue per your written business plan, and any expansion should be researched thoroughly and included in the plan. Business can fail for a lot of other reasons, and some are completely out of the owner’s control. Teddy Reynolds is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.

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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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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It took me approximately 12 months from the time I decided to move forward with the launch of Hera Hub to the point where I completed my business plan, secured financing, and solidified my first location. The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, you want to lease your office space in Washington DC, then you need to look for an office space that is spacious and can be easily accessible to your investors, clients, and employees. Draft a Business Plan and Get It Registered. And that’s the part where you need to invest a lot of time and patience.

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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. They just havd faith in me. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along.

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JULY 9, 2010

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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. 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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2012

The CEO of Contour, a company that makes helmet cameras designed for extreme sports photography, won $20,000 in an entrepreneurship contest held for students at The University of Washington. He wisely used the money to begin implementation of his business plan with his friend Jason Green, and the rest is history.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The plethora of mentorship opportunities for entrepreneurs is mind-boggling — programs like TechStars and Mass Challenge , not to mention myriad business-plan contests. Over the last five years since Zuckerberg’s emigration, there has been a transformation in the local start-up environment.

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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. It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 22, 2010

His "First Computer To Save A Human Life,” and more than 30,000 of Lon‘s papers are in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Build a business plan first. Lon is the founder of 14 companies, 19 inventions, and he holds three patents. Marty: Welcome to Startup Professionals interviews. Tell us what you do these days.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. Take it, says Klein, who has signed up for a mentor at every competition she’s won. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press. It’s a huge mistake not to.”. We drove to St.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2016

The research is conclusive: A study completed by the University of Oregon showed that companies that prepare business plans are 20% more likely to grow their business, and twice as likely to secure investment capital than those that don’t. The M3 Planning Strategy Benchmark of 280 U.S.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

And just a few years later - in the early 1990s - two demonstration projects (allowing people to start businesses with their unemployment benefits) were created in Massachusetts and Washington state. You can’t just say you’re starting a business to qualify for the SEA program. The results? Who Qualifies?

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Up and Running

JUNE 17, 2014

The show isn’t just a guilty pleasure — the characters in the Seven Kingdoms can teach us a thing or two about business as well. With the help of Kate Connors, an account manager at Media & Communications Strategies , a communications firm in Washington D.C., Admit when you’ve made a mistake.

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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. 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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 20, 2017

It doesn’t matter if you’re starting your cannabis business in Washington, Colorado, or Maine; you should start by building authentic relationships with your local cannabis community.” With any startup, investment capital is crucial to getting your business plan off the ground.

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Up and Running

MAY 21, 2012

National Small Business Week kicked off yesterday with a three-day educational and networking event in Washington, D.C., recognizing the accomplishments and contributions of small businesses across the country.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Thinking about starting a business from your home? Plenty of well-known businesses have started with simple home-based roots. For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. entrepreneurs start their business at home.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2019

Starting your consulting business without a solid plan is like driving in a foreign country when you are unable to speak the language and don’t have a map or GPS! To get started, you’ll need at least a business plan, a marketing plan, and a financial plan.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 7, 2015

In addition to partnering with co-working spaces and business accelerators, EGFS participates in a number of events, workshops, and office hours at top tier universities including Stanford, Berkeley, USC, University of Washington, and NYU. Think long-term when it comes to your business plan.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

of Washington. Instead of scrutinizing gigabytes of information about a prospective deal, Coats says Correlation gets the information it needs from five documents—the business plan or power point presentation, term sheet, historical financial, capitalization table, and pertinent legal documents. “We Ken Nisbet. Jim Roberts.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. Take it, says Klein, who has signed up for a mentor at every competition she’s won. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press. It’s a huge mistake not to.”. We drove to St.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

[Up until then] the capstone class – meaning the best class you could take for being an entrepreneur in a university – was how to write a business plan. Yet we all [anyone teaching who actually had founded a company] knew that in all honesty no business plan survives first contact with customers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 19, 2010

The story highlights some difficulties over at George Washington University and Princeton University related to the IPad and network stability. George Washington said earlier this month its wireless network’s security features don’t support the iPad—or iPhone and iPod Touch, for that matter.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2010

Yes, it was started by skiing students at the University of Washington who then entered the school’s business plan competition and won some seed capital (as quoted in the title). But Barros and Green didn’t imagine they would have such success when they began Twenty20 as students at the University of Washington.

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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

the University of Washington Foster School of Business hosts the annual Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition, which was won in 2012 by a student team from the Copenhagen Business School with a solution to the social stigma and environmental problem of menstruation in the developing world. Back in the U.S.,

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The Impact Alliance is a Washington D.C.-based This method of scaling a social enterprise increases the possibility of innovation and experimentation as the members of the network complement the efforts of the other members. ” Social Enterprise Journal 18.1 2012): 63-77.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 2, 2017

There were students from Georgetown, American University, George Washington University, Catholic University, Gallaudet University, the University of Maryland, George Mason University, Johns Hopkins University, Howard University and the University of the District of Columbia.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

With the new administration in Washington comes high hope for reform in five areas of strong business interest and concern: Corporate Taxes, Regulation, Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Education. Famously, the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters, respectively signifying “opportunity” and “danger.” Opportunity.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 31, 2012

Anyone entering a business plan competition should sign up for the mentorship. Louis six times for the Olin Cup competition at Washington University. Take it, says Klein, who has signed up for a mentor at every competition she’s won. We’ve had media mentors who have gotten us press. It’s a huge mistake not to.”. We drove to St.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

So far they have been featured on National Geographic, the Washington Post and Speak up for Blue. Pictured here from left to right, COO John Monterubio, and CEO Tim Richards discussing ReefCam at Net Impact in Washington DC. As you look to start your own business, you may wish to keep the following in mind: Your own interests.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Betsy Corcoran was a science and technology journalist for many years, working at Scientific American , The Washington Post and Forbes. While at The Washington Post, she broke stories on the Microsoft antitrust case from Washington before establishing the paper’s Silicon Valley office. Miriam : That’s true!

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