A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Innovative design and intellectual property are no longer long-term competitive advantages.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2018

In all cases, the most important element of business planning is the review schedule —set specific times to review your progress toward your goals. Specifically, it’s the time to review your progress on milestones and to compare your actuals against your financial projections. How often should you revise your business plan?

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Identify any technology needs you may have (and whether or not you’re equipped to meet them) such as: High-speed internet with a reliable connection. Not only is it necessary due to the coronavirus, but it could potentially give you a strategic long-term advantage against current competitors and help you avoid massive overhead.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

They Have Valuable Intellectual Property. Companies rich in intellectual property in all its forms – patents, processes, and people – attain purchase offers on factors other than last year’s earnings. The value of a business can be doubled and tripled and more simply by credibly and excitedly forecasting its growth.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Dave Berkus is a founding member of the Tech Coast Angels in Southern California, a lecturer and educator. Furthermore, Dave reminds us that “it was created specifically for the earliest stage investments as a way to find a starting point without relying upon the founder’s financial forecasts.”.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2018

Revisit and update it regularly by comparing your forecasts to your actuals and adjusting as necessary. If you’ve never written a business plan before, Bplans also offers a library of sample medical business plans that you can review or even download to use as a model. Encourage your patients to review you online, too.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. The company overview provides a quick review of the company’s legal structure and location, as well as some background on the company’s history if you’re writing the plan for an existing business. Read more ». Company Overview. Read more ».

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 11, 2019

Check your business name doesn’t conflict with that of another business, by looking up the free online registers provided by the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand and the NZ Companies Register. This could be your specific expertise, new technology, or being first to market. What’s the financial forecast?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

He serves clients across a range of industries on growth strategy, performance improvement, and value creation by harnessing the power of data and analytics, digital culture and capabilities, and modernized core technology. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Like this show? That's right.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Set a specific time each month to review it , comparing forecasts to actuals and revising as necessary. Due to the market’s competitive nature, it has become common for people to decide between full-service real estate agents and real estate agents who charge a “ fee per service.” Technology. Operations.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The operations section includes the logistics, technology, and other behind-the-scenes pieces of your business. Add the milestone’s name, due date, budget, and person responsible to a calendar to put “ some bite into your plan and management.”. Intellectual property. Operations. Sourcing, fulfillment, and distribution.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2015

So, we don’t actually ever have a perfect estimate of actually how much extra revenue was due to our testing, but I think that $200 million is a fairly reasonable estimate.” If asked to measure improvement in conversion rate due to optimization efforts, most people would point to Google Analytics. Image Source. “If

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections.   In a bottom up approach, the forecast is built from actual user projections. .   And if they are built from the top down, they’re pretty much useless. [3] This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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