Government Lean Metrics Small Business 
Steve Blank
JULY 13, 2021
The business school was invented in the first decade of the 20th century in response to a massive economic transformation in the U.S. The country exited the Civil War as a nation of small businesses and ended the century with large national corporations (railroads, steel, oil, food, insurance, etc.). Soon others were created.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.
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Up and Running
APRIL 2, 2015
One exception to the rule is that the federal Small Business Administration (SBA) has programs that guarantee some portion of startup costs for new businesses so banks can lend them money with the government, reducing the banks’ risk. So your business has to have hard assets it can pledge to back up a business loan.
Up and Running
OCTOBER 30, 2017
If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. In fact, the business plan does not have to be a formal document at all if you don’t need to present your plan to outsiders. Milestones and Metrics.
Up and Running
JUNE 19, 2013
The New York Times profiles two successful tech start-ups— GoodData , which at its start raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding, and RJ Metrics, which held out with self-financing for as long as possible—that went after the same market at the same time, and contrasts their approaches to finance.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 21, 2010
It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup.
Up and Running
DECEMBER 17, 2020
But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. However, if you take the time to understand the processes, terminology and tools it can quickly become a valuable function of your business. Time spent on-page is a related metric you may also want to track.
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