Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2017

Answering these 11 questions will help your business start off on the right foot and give you a jumpstart on the business planning or Lean Planning process. Mark Cuban has famously said, “Sweat equity is the best startup capital.” Should you have a partner or outside investors? That’s what these questions are for.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2018

Consider writing a Lean Plan , or an abbreviated business plan to help you think through the most important considerations. Here’s a free Lean Planning template you can use to get started. You can do it in less than an hour, and you can always spend more time on certain components of the business plan if you need or want to.

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Up and Running

APRIL 10, 2019

I know this from personal experience because my business partner and I did just that with our company, Louder.Online. It is simple to use, and it means that my business partner and I were able to act as HR without having to spend a lot of time on it. It’s strategic planning or Lean Business Planning. Setting up. OKR management.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Unless your name is Eric Ries and it’s called “ lean startup.&# (Seriously, you’d be surprised how often this comes up.) …and lastly Don’t Negotiate with Me I’m sure that there are a lot of people who will disagree with me on this because it’s largely a question of corporate culture.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. ” Chinomnso Ibe, Registered Nurse and founder of Traffina Foundation, a Nigerian partner of Maternova, listens to a patient’s heartbeat with their fetascope. Make smart agreements with strategic partners.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company).

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

We tried, and opted out of, potentials for pivots; we pitched for game-changing partners and acquisitions that did not ultimately convert. As we self-funded on a tiny amount of cash, sweat equity and vision, we also worked in a methodical manner, moving the ball down the field week by week. Lean into it. We pitched.

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