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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are you an entrepreneur or small business owner with questions about funding your small business? Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. You can kind of think of it like a kayak for small business. My name is John Bates.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Your Lean Plan should include an overview of your strategy and tactics (problem-solving and possible solutions), your business model (including your target market and competition), and a schedule of what you’re doing and when. You should also include some core financials such as a sales forecast, expense budget, and cash flow forecast.

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Up and Running

JULY 20, 2020

Small businesses are great. But becoming an entrepreneur needn’t mean decimating your savings or robbing a bank—instead focus on these five main strategies to start a business on a budget. Office supplies, software licenses, product materials, and even service arrangements can easily build up over time. Bulk purchases.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2017

The details within those pages will remind you of the spending strategy you outlined to get your business off the ground. Look closely at your cash flow forecast so that you can spend accordingly. With this in mind, it is imperative to spend capital wisely to make sure your business finds success. Evaluate technology needs.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

These costs shouldn’t just be the cost of goods sold but should include operating expenses and overheads like utilities, office/shop rentals, salaries, and so on. Third, invest in business software and systems that helps you to capture costs at various stages.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2017

In August of 2016, the New York Times reported that General Electric had high hopes for its new software initiative, Predix. By then, the company forecasts that its total digital business—more than 90 percent of IT software—may reach as much as $15 billion, up from $6 billion now.”. It reported that G.E.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

Recently, Palo Alto Software CEO Sabrina Parsons hosted a webinar for our Bcast members on how to use LivePlan to create a better business plan, pitch your idea to investors, and track your business. As a successful small business owner, Sabrina wanted to show off how LivePlan’s many features can help boost your business.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 2, 2011

million businesses nationwide. Whether you are a new small business about to unveil itself, or a business that has been around for some time, you will often be asked about your business plan. When reviewing your business plan, keep the information as detailed as possible.

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AUGUST 21, 2014

What a lot of companies or startups don’t realize is when you put up forecast together, it’s difficult if you’re a startup. You probably want to have a monthly one though because all your other expenses for the most part are monthly: rent, salaries, all your fixed costs, insurance. You can have a yearly ARPU or ARPA.

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AUGUST 30, 2017

For detailed information on the size of your primary market, there are helpful resources such as this market research guide from the US Small Business Administration. List an advisory board if you have one, list all employee salaries, incentives, referral bonuses for recruiting, and all such details. Software costs.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2014

We all have goals for our business, but sometimes we forget how important it is to clearly define these goals. This is especially true when it comes to financial goal setting for small businesses, where often financial goals are only vaguely defined or based too heavily on assumptions. Small Business segment.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

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. That’s the sales forecast, the spending forecast and the cash flow. That’s a lean business plan. It is not a document.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. His passions are business process automation, surfing, and his new baby girl Maya. ?. Sales are the bloodstream for most businesses, and tech startups are no exception. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 27, 2013

Just like large enterprises, small businesses need tools to help them create sales and revenue projections, analyze customer data, maintain product lists, and graphically visualize all of this critical information. Lots of small businesses need a reliable, accurate tool to forecast sales and demand for their product or service.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 24, 2013

Q: As an owner of existing software, is there a price for those upgrading to LivePlan ? A : Since LivePlan is a completely separate tool from Business Plan Pro, the pricing is separate as well. A : We currently do not have a service to critique your business plan, but we are hoping to launch such a service late this year.

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Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Go spring for some basic accounting software, early. What are yours?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Our topic for this webinar is what not to do if you want to keep good employees, so this topic is extremely relevant to anyone who is starting or running a business. Matt has built his business to combine his high tech experience with his friendly, real world insight into small business ownership. Not just their salary.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

It is also mostly a subscription-based business which means it has a highly predictable revenue stream which is great for forecasting future performance. Our direct sales group markets and sells our solutions primarily using the telephone and web-based demonstrations.

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Up and Running

APRIL 29, 2014

Tax season has come and gone, but the main takeaway from our recent webinar on tax planning for small businesses is that the key to saving money on your taxes is to think ahead and plan. It’s never too early to start thinking about how to prepare for your business taxes. I’m really excited to have Ryan Clower from M.

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