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A Simpler Plan for Startups

Up and Running

This article is part of our Business Planning Guide —a curated list of our articles that will help you with the planning process! Business advisors, experienced entrepreneurs, bankers, and investors generally agree that you should develop a business plan before you start a business. However, not all startups are that simple.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. See Also: A Curated List of Our Favorite 20 Marketing Tools.

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Love About Being An Entrepreneur

Hearpreneur

I founded and curate the Museum of Interesting Things for the last 12 years and I like to say to new entrepreneurs and to people I teach that there are 2 things that got me into being an entrepreneur, a passion for something and bad bosses! On the other side (of course), if you fail, you are solely responsible for your failure. 6- Two things.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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5 Content Marketing Strategies for Niche B2B Industries

ConversionXL

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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