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How to Handle Competition as a Startup

The Startup Magazine

Entrepreneurs need to define their market niche and craft effective competitive strategies to counteract competitive pressures. These systems apply complex algorithms to parse sales data, forecast demand trends, and manage stock levels efficiently. Facing competition is a major hurdle for startups.

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How to Survive Four Common Worst Case Scenarios

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenges stem from the simple fact that every entrepreneur is starting something new, where things are predictably unpredictable. There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics.

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Four Common Startup Issues Which Threaten Survival

Startup Professionals Musings

The challenges stem from the simple fact that every entrepreneur is starting something new, where things are predictably unpredictable. There are unknowns at every turn, leading product development, attracting customers, managing cash, and dealing with human resources and office politics.

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Extremely Valuable Tips for Creating a Financial Forecast During the Early Stages of an Entrepreneurial Journey

Up and Running

Creating financial forecasts and budgets are not typically how many entrepreneurs envision spending their time, but these tools are incredibly necessary. An accurate and thoughtful forecast can be time-consuming, but it will help you to make informed decisions regarding staffing and growth, and it will help you attract investors.

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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Who was the entrepreneur who founded what would become General Motors 16 years earlier, in 1904? A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in.

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Startup Sales – Why Hiring Seasoned Reps May Not Work

Both Sides of the Table

As they become more senior they take on management responsibilities such as planning, forecasting, pipeline reviews, coaching staff, etc. And he rapidly iterates that back into product development to rapidly respond to customer requests and has the messages straight into our sales campaigns.

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