Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

One of our Bplans writers described going into business in cannabis as a “ once-in-a-generation opportunity ,” with the product rapidly becoming legal for recreational as well as medical use in many states. If you simply want to map out the aspects of your business for internal use, you can consider a Lean Business Plan. Be specific.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. If you'd like to try your hand at being an entrepreneur inside one of the world's largest bureaucracies, you can apply right here starting today.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 7, 2014

You probably don’t have a big portion of your income that you can tuck away as savings, and you welcome opportunities to make your operations more cost-effective. Really evaluate the cost and benefits to the company. You’ve heard it before and it’s still true: going green saves green. Sponsors for Events.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

Whether opening a new business or expanding an existing one, when evaluating new markets, many entrepreneurs ask themselves several questions: Is there a demand for my product or service in the area? Luckily, I’ve done the research for you and picked out the top small business-friendly cities in the United States.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

To supplement this guide, I interviewed an expert in the home health care field: Carol Byrne is the National Sales Director for 21st Century Health Care Consultants, a consulting firm which serves home health care agencies throughout the United States. The state of the home health care industry around the world: .

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Thanksgiving is a big holiday in the United States and traditionally, most families make a turkey for dinner. 3 mistakes I made as a young entrepreneur – [link]. 7 tactics lean startups need to build great products | Gigaom – [link]. Cigarettes Should Cost $25 a Pack | Harvard Business Review – [link].

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

In the 1950’s the groundwork for a culture and environment of entrepreneurship were taking shape on the east and west coasts of the United States. The goal was commercial products, but as scientists and engineers the company’s founders realized that at times the cost of experimentation was failure. Why It’s “Silicon” Valley.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Then, also in the 1880s, some clever American entrepreneurs decided to market a “fast growing, shade generating” plant to the overly warm citizens living the waltz-dancing climate of the south-eastern United States. Are you able to achieve pricing 10 times better than incumbents due to unfair cost advantages?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. People who would never bother with an entrepreneur’s blog, who may not even see themselves as entrepreneurs: shopkeepers and policy makers, CFO’s and private equity managers, and even future entrepreneurs. But there’s no reason we can’t have a little fun along the way.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 4, 2014

For entrepreneurs in and around the tech industry, conferences are an excellent way to get up to speed on the latest developments, find great new services, and get a read on potential clients and customers — plus, you never know who else you’ll meet. Lean Startup Conference. He runs the Lean Startup Conference.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. If you’re an entrepreneur you might be interested to know that when Sloan took over General Motors in 1923, it was already a $700 million dollar company (about $8.5 Durant was an amazing entrepreneur. It has happened to many entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses. The idea is to enable up to 10,000 people per year to enter the United States if they are here to found a company that will employ US citizens.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

In December 1941, the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, and Germany declares war on the United States. And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles. That led me back to the history of radar in World War II – and a story you may not know.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Of course, there’s no one-fits-all approach to figuring out what niche you’re best served to help—and the variety of responses we got from real estate agents across the United States is proof of that. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Low turnover has many benefits for a company, including reduced recruiting and training costs, improved productivity, and lower absentee rates. United States Labor Day stamp: Photo by Karen Horton. Related posts: Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility. Let’s Celebrate the Workers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Eric Ries : Next time someone criticizes entrepreneurs for whatever perceived slight in our society, we'll all be thinking of this story. The reason I wanted you to tell that story, and first of all, thank you for the kind words--that means a lot to me whenever The Lean Startup can be helpful to someone that's starting something.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2016

After all, it costs only $99 and you can personalize it with your business name. You are not required (at least in the United States) to register your trademark or service mark with the trademark office. Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels. Don’t do it.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Of course, you could also calculate your price based on the cost of materials and manufacture. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1- Two reasons. The desire for me to create something meaningful and the choking environment of the corporate culture made me quit my full-time job and become an entrepreneur. Each story is different though the reasons may be the same.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. The 11 Harsh Realities Of Being An Entrepreneur - OnStartups , November 1, 2010 There's always talk about the end game in the form of an acquisition, funding announcement, or eventual flame out. Ralph Waldo Emerson. But I don’t think so.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 18, 2019

In the late 1800s, in what’s known as the Second Industrial Revolution, multiple major new technologies initiated an era marked by even more rapid transformation than the century that preceded it — especially in the United States. To lean toward fear rather than hope. To see more challenges than opportunities.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot. 10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version). Create Your Website.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The United States is the 3rd most startup-friendly nation in the world, behind Germany and Japan, according to US News, but startup entrepreneurs in America still need to keep operating costs under tight control in order to build their companies and make them profitable. Negotiate with your suppliers.

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AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. So you might as well be tired both as a mom and as an entrepreneur."

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. Options range from low cost sites through GoDaddy , to sophisticated sites, with analytics, A/B testing, blogging tools, SEO,and other value-adds from Hubspot. 10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version). Create Your Website.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their daily, weekly, quarterly or yearly goals around their business. We asked entrepreneurs to share their Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) and here are the insightful responses. #1- Have a goal that third parties think is impossible? 1- Become a self-running machine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Once I graduated from the naval academy in the United States Navy. And the truth is that's yesterday and you don't really have the ability to change what you did yesterday, but what you do have the ability today, is to lean into this. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. Chris Dixon, Partner, A16Z, observes , “Success in VC is probably 10% about picking, and 90% about sourcing the right deals and having entrepreneurs choose your firm as a partner”. 2) Market .

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Then there’s Nobu and the institution he has built through all of his restaurants in many different cities in the United States and maybe abroad. It is the entrepreneurs that are singing their heart out, playing the instruments, et cetera. Personally, I love Brian Armstrong ; he’s an incredible entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: So you in the Value Builder System kind of lean on these drivers of salability kind of the things that people use to determine or demonstrate that a company has value. Back to Podcast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

As an entrepreneur, Sal has always believed in thinking long-term. I think any entrepreneur has this delusional optimism that surely the world will recognize how valuable this is," he says. Our server costs, we're on track to be 200%, 300%. Sal Khan : how do we keep up with the costs of things? So, I quit my day job.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

And so for me, I truly appreciate what we have in the United States, which is a second chance to rebuild, but also everything that comes with a culture where, Hey, if you earn something, you can keep it, and you’re not going to lose it because of some powers that be taking away from you what Americans take it for granted.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

By the time I came back to the United States, he was gone from the company. These poor miserable people who insist in making money at the cost of others, deserve our compassion, not emulation The real success I believe is leading a happy life and to hopefully provide for your worldly needs and those of your dependents.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The United States Lavender Growers Association is a newly found group set up to help growers. See Also: 10 Business Books Every Savvy Entrepreneur Should Read. Say you start the passion fruit farm you’ve been dreaming of for years in your home state in Florida. Step 1: Identify your niche. Step 2: Find the right land.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

When I counsel startup entrepreneurs I give them my blunt dose of reality, “If you can’t easily identify target leads who have a problem you can solve then hang up your cleats – you’re not going to succeed.” VCs all say: We are entrepreneur friendly. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

During the webinar, Jeff highlighted the results of his many hours of reading, and personal interviews with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. As a writer, as an entrepreneur, as a marketer, I get all of that. I think that we tend to have a weird relationship with failure, especially entrepreneurs.

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