Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2022

That often involves working long hours and keeping your costs lean. Think of it as an investment in your company — you’re dedicating resources (compensation) to highly skilled employees who will hopefully bring your business to the next level.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done by full-time employees, in the office or at home. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2018

Today, I want to introduce a new approach to business planning: Lean Planning. Lean Planning replaces lengthy business plans with a 20-minute planning process that focuses on increasing your chances of success in business. Lean Planning is simpler and faster than writing a traditional business plan.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2021

In a recent survey conducted by payroll services provider OnPay of more than 1,000 small businesses, business owners who run payroll manually said they spend an average of 18 hours a month paying employees. One that requires sorting through all the ins and outs of a large business’s pay complexities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2019

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions?

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2020

Treat any new income stream as an expansion of your business. You’ll likely want to build out at least a lean business plan to make sure the new initiative is viable and that your current business can support it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Wouldn’t it be great to cut to the chase and go straight to the best resources for great new small business marketing ideas? Here, in no particular order, are the top 16 small business marketing blogs you should read in 2019. Small Business Daily. Small Business Trends. Social Triggers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 18, 2014

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Too often, CEOs and small business managers suffer from analysis paralysis. And nice site. It looks as though you and I have the same taste in layout, no? I’ve written about this subject many times and could not agree more. This happens for any number of reasons. Some are afraid of making the wrong decision.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2018

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. Huffington Post, Small Biz Blog , co-founder Arianna Huffington. For many people, it also serves as a one-stop news source about small businesses and entrepreneurs. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2019

Thus my job as a small business advisor really is really more about getting you developed than perfecting the business. Build a lean team to complement your strengths. By the time your business has really taken root, and you are preparing to scale, you need to be at this stage.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Thirty more articles related to this: How To Calculate Sweat Equity - Get Venture: Venture Made Transparent , February 11, 2010 How Much Equity a Technical Cofounder Should Get - Nathan Hurst , July 19, 2010 When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) - Brad Hargreaves , March 7, 2010 Make Sure Sweat Equity Vests - Get Venture: Venture Made (..)

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Gain Client’s Trust by ensuring Cybersecurity written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with Zach Kromkowski In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interviewed Zach Kromkowski, co-founder of Sention, about the importance of cybersecurity for small businesses and marketing firms.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

To an entrepreneur or small business owner, achieving a project management certification may seem unnecessary. After all, business is all about innovation and ideas, surely you can make it up as you go along? Lean Six Sigma. Training is typically based on Lean Six Sigma and uses a system of belts based on Karate colours.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Our strategy was to not even attempt to take them on head-to-head by trying to offer everything they did, instead, we sliced off a piece of the solution that we believed we could do better and that addressed a critical pain point for small businesses – invoicing.”. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2014

Your small business is never finished, even when it stops being small. He’s been solely dedicated to Enterprise Content Management space for over six years, and is passionate about lean, startup marketing. That’s why you’re in the startup game, right? The building of a home is never finished.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. What about “leaning in”? There is an argument that women need to “ lean in ” (thanks, Sheryl Sandburg).

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Most small businesses operate on lean budgets. Many small business owners rarely update their websites, despite correlations between the updates and increases in traffic. Small businesses should only utilize licensed images so they can ensure they aren’t breaching copyright rules.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 16, 2023

Over the last decade, thought leaders and small business coaches have been on the rise. If you’re like me, you may be inundated with emails and ads for TED talks, keynote speeches and small business books from thought leaders offering to help your small business increase revenue. Thought sharing is serving.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Every business ought to have a plan, but not every business needs a full formal plan with carefully crafted summaries and descriptions. If you don’t have a specific immediate need to show a formal business plan to a banker or investor, then you are probably better off doing just a lean business plan , for your internal use only.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

Beyond writing a business plan to acquire funding (if that’s what you need), a business plan can help keep you on track to meet your milestones and goals. Your plan doesn’t need to be a lengthy document either, especially if you follow a Lean Planning methodology. Determine what type of business plan is right for you .

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Brandanew

JUNE 27, 2016

Plenty of big and small businesses are over investing in social media without a large return. This doesn’t look pretty, especially for smaller brands and startups where lean processes are in place and over-investment can make or break businesses. Why was this? She wasn’t the only one thinking this through.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 25, 2015

These days, it is almost impossible to find a small business where everything is done at the home location, by full-time employees. These approaches allow your startup to grow more rapidly, save costs, but costly mistakes can lead to business failure.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2020

Mentorship has proven to be one of the most powerful tools that any business owner can have, especially if they are new to the journey of being an entrepreneur. A business consultant is often the best mentorship resource available to a startup or small business. For a beginner, this may sound too lofty or technical.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

With business plans for internal use and Lean Plans, nobody expects one. If you don’t have a business use for the summary, don’t do it. Are you writing a business plan to show to investors or bankers? As I mentioned above, a true Lean Plan doesn’t need any summary. Small Business Administration (SBA).

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

With over 30 million small businesses in the United States, which include all ventures earning under $1 million annually, the market for sole proprietors is unprecedentedly popular. The most obvious factor that leads to the abysmal lack of revenues for small businesses is that many of them fail to survive in the long run.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

Bplans offers a library of more than 500 sample business plans across a wide variety of industries. Here’s how to get the most of any sample business plan. What is a sample business plan? A sample business plan gives you an idea of how another small business or startup in your industry built their own plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

In business this is known as the MVP or ‘Minimum Viable Product’. It’s an approach that is advocated today as part of the Lean Startup Methodology. While we are expanding, coral reefs are still a cornerstone of our business, which was built with the aim of protecting them in mind. Begin with the simplest form of your product.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In addition to working with thousands of small business owners each year, I also work very closely with coaches, consultants, and small marketing agency owners. These folks are, of course, small business owners in their own right. 2) More and more firms crowdsource talent. 5) AI get very practical.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

According to the Small Business Administration , just one in two businesses with employees survives to see its fifth anniversary. By the 10-year mark, fewer than 30% of businesses with employees remain viable. Surprisingly, macroeconomic trends have minimal impact on long-term business survival rates.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The most important difference between a tech startup and a traditional new business is the core objective that drives each. Small businesses are, in most cases, driven by stable long-term growth, value, and profitability. Image by StartupStockPhotos from Pixabay. All tech startups begin as a concept.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 15, 2018

Once you’ve decided that you’re ready to start a small web design firm, you’ll need to develop a host of skills to help you run a successful business, including time management, sales and promotional strategies, and client acquisition. Create a Lean Business Plan.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2020

Current businesses are finding ways to pivot their business models, revisiting their budgets, and developing new forecasts to minimize their burn rate and maximize their available cash runway. They’re surviving and finding ways to thrive, but for those looking to start a business, now may be one of the best times to do so. .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

While companies are busy maintaining the status quo, precious moments are slipping away to get ahead of the competition with better technology. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is not a strategy that helps companies lean into the future, because it’s focused on the past.

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