Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Plan for Niche Domination. Why should your next business plan focus on finding and developing a niche? When the market cools or is serviced by a focused/lean competitor who delivers high value the random fulfillment seller is at great risk or disappears. What is all this dialogue about “Niches” and who should really care?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 Vision Synching in a Lean Startup - Startup Marketing Blog , November 12, 2010 In the age of the lean startup , we often forget about the importance of vision. This post is an accusation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. This article is part of a trend that has taken me a bit by surprise: the adoption of lean startup techniques outside the traditional domain of high-tech startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. October 6, 2008 9:41 PM Eric said.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

He started his first business at age 15 and ran it until he went off to college at UC Berkeley. When Gleb was in business school at Berkeley he founded NetRelevance – his professors liked his business plan so much that they used it in the Haas School of Business as a teaching tool. At least, that’s what I’ve heard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. I won’t apologize for this aspect of the Lean Startup methodology. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Pivot or persevere?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? The level of engineering quality will vary. The amount of traditional business modeling will vary. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. It’s probably time to pivot.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Tim Berry, entrepreneur and business planning evangelist, advises : Expect scope creep—clients asking for more after they’ve agreed on deliverables and price—and deal with it delicately, suggesting the extra work needs extra fees. First, you will need to choose the legal structure for your new consulting business.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

“Boom and bust is our lot and we must follow the ancient advice.that Joseph gave to the Pharaoh: Put away your surplus during the years of great plenty so you will be ready for the lean years which are sure to follow.”. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008? Governor Jerry Brown, State of the State speech, January 2014.

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