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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

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Instead of funding, you pay the investors a structured royalty, which is a portion of the sales. Bootstrapping inculcates the entrepreneurial discipline and financial responsibility to run a lean business. ? You should also prepare an elevator pitch, which is a 5 minute verbal summary of your business idea and the plan.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

Refine your elevator pitch. A great post by Elizabeth Knopf , FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder where she breaks down the process much like how you think about a sales process. Go to tech (or other relevant industry) events. I'm focusing on the sourcing ("lead gen" on her slide) aspect.

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How to Start a Small Web Design Firm

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Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. Create a Lean Business Plan. The first step to running your own business is creating a solid plan.

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Business Startup Checklist

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We use the lean planning methodology to figure this out. Estimate your basic expenses and forecast sales to ensure that you can make a profit with your business. Create a marketing and sales plan. Create an elevator pitch. A strong brand is the key to customer loyalty and higher sales. Sales forecast.

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7 Must-Dos Before Starting a Company

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Running a lean startup takes major budgeting skills. Some success stories weren’t always so successful—even big companies like LEGO experienced declining sales at one time before they went back to their roots and began to refocus on the products their customers really loved. Market research. What changed?

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Startup CEO (OnlyOnce- the book!), Part III – Pre-Order Now

OnlyOnce

The book has been described by a few CEOs who read it and commented early for me along the lines of “The Lean Startup movement is great, but this book starts where most of those books end and takes you through the ‘so you have a product that works in-market – now what?’ What About Sales & Marketing?, questions”.

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How to Tell Your Company’s History in Your Business Plan

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For lean business plans, operational plans, and strategic plans to be used by startup founders, owners, and management team, company history may be overkill. That might be with strategy, tactics, milestones, metrics, or projected sales and spending. See Also: Elevator Pitch Guide.