The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

With over 30 million small businesses in the United States, which include all ventures earning under $1 million annually, the market for sole proprietors is unprecedentedly popular. Namely, as many as 50% of them never make it to their fifth anniversary, and around one-third are unable to conclude the initial year of operations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. Social entrepreneurs take note!)

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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. Operations.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rose of Gust, roughly 1,500 startups get funded by venture capitalists, and 50,000 by angel investors in the United States each year. That makes it even more important for entrepreneurs to come up with viable propositions for their business. No wonder that the niche is still so attractive, despite being so overcrowded.

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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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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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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. Worth a read. It’s called NSF I-Corps.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

By offering guidance and expertise, mentors provide valuable insights into the unique challenges these startups face as they share their social sector knowledge, enabling entrepreneurs to navigate complex landscapes more effectively. Pew Research Center has also identified this issue in the United States.

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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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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. Because then, when you go back to the same capital market for your Series A, and say, “We are raising this A to do Y,” you’ll have a lot of folks leaning in. million acres of land.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur planning to start a business outside of the United States, you might be looking for assistance and resources that are available in your specific country. There are plenty of local resources and services available to help entrepreneurs in their local areas around the globe.

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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. Review your operating expenses. “Lean is in. He suggests sites like elance and odesk for those tasks that you just need to delegate. Minimize Inventory.

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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 Stanford class introduced the first management tools for entrepreneurs built around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack.

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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. Velocity Web Performance and Operations. 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. Sloan transferred responsibility down from corporate into each of the operating divisions (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac). The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. There’s the Alfred P.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 22, 2015

In the last year alone, several have opened across the United States, with cafes in New York City, Oakland, California, and soon, Portland Oregon. The cat cafe business model is incredibly new, and as such, there is much less in the way of a road map for these entrepreneurs to follow. How do you open a business unlike any other?

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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. All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 28, 2019

Whilst it can be tempting to lean upon existing connections, are they really the right people to be on your advisory board? It’s far better to secure advisory board members who are going to speak up and stand up to you if you’re making bad calls and sit independently from the critical business operations. NZ Entrepreneur.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

Guest author Gary Whitehill resides on the board of advisors for the Dell Center for Entrepreneurs. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. only operations.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2016

Trademark law prevents businesses from operating under names – or using logos – that are likely to be mistaken for the name or logo of an existing competitor. You are not required (at least in the United States) to register your trademark or service mark with the trademark office. For example, here’s how the U.S.

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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. Also, it was rather an operational than a technological business.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Your price may affect business operations. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. According to the USPTO, “A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor, issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

We're still operating delivering pies and doing some pickups at our kitchen, but our staff is greatly reduced. I still own my small business, which is being run primarily by my director of operations, but I've been working a lot of times till two or three in the morning, so definitely a lot of late nights and a lot of just stress and urgency.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

From a mission and purpose standpoint, we have always been about access and quality, so that was a natural place for our team to lean in harder to the support that we knew would be needed across our communities. So we are now very well-versed in being parents and entrepreneurs. We looked at ourselves and we said, what are we best at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Silicon Valley was the fastest growing region in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s; but that growth came out of a place, not a technology. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. If you operate a professional service (medical, consulting, accounting, law), consider adding appointment options to allow your customers and prospective customers to book appointments online – or at the very least, to check your availability.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

Last year, only 50% of all small business in the United States had a website. If you operate a professional service (medical, consulting, accounting, law), consider adding appointment options to allow your customers and prospective customers to book appointments online – or at the very least, to check your availability.

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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- 12- Digitize operations. Have a goal that third parties think is impossible?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

Khosrowshahi, who previously served as CEO of Expedia before taking the reins at Uber in 2017, sat down with Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman to discuss the past, present and future of the mobility and delivery business that now operates in 71 countries around the world and employs around 20,000 people globally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

"It was delusional for a guy operating in a walk-in closet, but I was like, 'You live once, you might as well swing for the fences.'" 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.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

Being in love with your business, when you’re an entrepreneur, is even better. Although there are days when tossing in your hat seems like a viable option, remembering how much you love your “job” can quickly snap an entrepreneur out of that mentality. We asked some entrepreneurs what they loved about “being their own boss.”

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