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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Start your lean business plan today: Download our Free Lean Plan Template one-page-pitch-download.pdf. I’m going to start with what’s a lean business plan.

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How Do You Negotiate More To Know What Your Brand Is Worth?

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Thus jeopardizing their brands and finances. All this when it’s merely a question of leaning in versus pure quality. In our second mentorship event focused on women, we talk turkey. Especially, for women – and women led businesses. Research studies show that women negotiate far lesser than men. Here are the details.

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Becoming Your Own Boss: A Bplans Guide

Up and Running

Do you plan to quit your current job and make the switch to being your own boss cold turkey, or would you feel more comfortable starting out part time, and transitioning to working completely for yourself, gradually? A personal finance tracker such as Mint can be very helpful here. Get your finances in order. Make the switch.

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Should I Quit My Job to Start My Own Business? 9 Questions You Need to Ask

Up and Running

That’s all great—but, the reality is that quitting your day job cold turkey to start a new business is definitely the riskiest path available. It’ll be necessary here to do some type of financial forecast , or perhaps a business plan (we recommend a Lean Plan ). How long will it take you to break even? Is it 12 months after you open?

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. Eren came to the US from Turkey to work at a Silicon Valley tech startup, which is actually where I first met him a few years ago. EB : If you go really back, I was born in a small village in South-east part of Turkey.