StartupNation

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A business plan is as important to a new business as a map is to a ship, or blueprints are to an architect. A written business plan will guide your actions and keep you focused on your short- and long-term goals. It details the path from your business today to your business three to five years down the road.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Mid-level or even top executives who “grew up” in large companies often look with envy at startups, and dream of how easy it must be running a small organization, where you can see the whole picture and it appears you have total control. The job of a big-company executive is very different from the job of a small-company executive.

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Startup Blogpost

MARCH 10, 2023

Deducting these costs from taxes can help save a lot of money for your business in the long run. Shaun Connell, Founder, Writing Tips Institute Try the Interested Stockholder Tax Basis Adjustment (ISTBA) Understanding the tax requirements of a startup is essential for any business founder.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Many Gen Zers are also watching businesses make significant pivots with their business models and may be inspired to make similar moves. Why wait for a dream job when you can start your own dream business? Starting a business, no matter which industry, means setting the necessary foundation for the company’s success.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

By Zev Asch, Marketing & Business Growth Consultant. Business owners need not be their company’s marketing experts. You trust your CPA to guide you on finances and your lawyer to advise on legal matters – marketing should not be an exception. I wrote a marketing book that applies to either of the above.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“And while much of the oxygen has been soaked up by large legacy companies hitting the public market, there have been smaller deals that indicate a hunger for better creative adtech.” Companies that haven’t created an ideal customer profile and performed a SWOT analysis are making big bets on guesswork and intuition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Market Size. It’s ok to target a small market and you can probably build a niche business that is extremely valuable to you as an individual. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

Designing for Success: Focused, Customer-driven Approach to Launching Tech Products Picture credits: [link] The number one reason why startups fail is due to misreading market demand?—?found along with pricing/cost issues, user-unfriendly products, poor marketing, and product mistiming. found in a striking 42% of cases ?—?along

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 5, 2020

On the wind down to the festive season, it’s often difficult to find the time to look at making strategic business decisions. For many Kiwi business managers and owners, things like growth, scalability, better processes and greater security will be top of mind – which is why understanding the role technology plays is more critical than ever.

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Reforge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most every marketer is familiar with A/B testing, but few have a consistent framework for prioritizing what to test. About the Author Michael Taylor Mike was a co-founder at Ladder , a 50-person growth marketing agency with $50m spent and 8,000 experiments run, for clients like Booking.com, Monzo Bank, and Facebook Workplace.

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Startup Blogpost

JANUARY 19, 2024

From the importance of simplicity and adaptability to the critical balance of frugality with necessary outsourcing, we’ve compiled the top fifteen answers to guide you through the budgeting maze and help you sidestep common pitfalls. The business isn’t going to grow just because you spent tons of time on the budget.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

S&P Global Market Intelligence . Pratt’s Guide . annually between 2015 and 2020, its market size topping $1.3B connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

No content marketing. We provide commentary and analysis that helps our readers leverage the news. It’s okay to be broad and provide non-technical background as the audience tends to be business-minded readers who may have a small percentage of their net worth in crypto or none at all but are thinking about it.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 1: How Klaviyo transformed from a lifestyle business into a $4.15B email titan. Walter Thompson. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What Is Your Process for Developing New Business Ideas?: 16 Experts Weigh In Sixteen entrepreneurs, from Founders to CEOs, unveil their personal blueprints for birthing a business concept. I never care about competition because I know potential competitors can’t do bottom-of-funnel targeting the way I can.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Supply chain disruptions caused — or exacerbated — by the pandemic continue to affect businesses in a range of industries. For example, 36% of small businesses responding to a U.S. Census Small Business Pulse last year reported delays with domestic suppliers.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Back in the early 1990s, I was a married father of two very young children working as an investment banker in a small, boutique firm. We were small and very entrepreneurial in our approach. He began to describe his latest business acquisition and—suddenly!— My first entrepreneurial opportunity. The payoff.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

No business or organization can properly manage its finances without carefully completed long-term financial forecasting. Many business owners are burdened by high operational expenses, unplanned resource drains, and unexpected market-related surprises. Every business faces these challenges at some point or another.

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The Zapier Blog

MARCH 28, 2023

As a content marketer, learning that ChatGPT was creating entire SEO articles that sound pretty close to human writing was a bit chilling. In this guide, I'll unpack what AI marketing really means and how you can utilize it to do human-grade work, saving you time and bringing your campaigns to life (artificial life?).

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A lot of people go out and start their first business and try to make it a venture-backed startup. I think the right move is to start a business that can make you $100k+ per year in profit. It could be something as simple as a consulting or a services business, or a digital product like a course, newsletter, or subscription podcast.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MARCH 20, 2022

Last week I was at Social Media Marketing World and listened attentively to a session about the metaverse. Last week I was at Social Media Marketing World and listened attentively to a session about the metaverse. Here’s my analysis of it. Get Grow Your Solo, my guide to growing your solo business.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“We don’t just add tasks to a Trello board for them to complete, we discuss the goals, why and how best to achieve them with cost/benefit analysis in mind.” “We don’t just add tasks to a Trello board for them to complete, we discuss the goals, why and how best to achieve them with cost/benefit analysis in mind.”

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . 2) Market .

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 8, 2023

How to Build a Strong Brand for Your Startup In search of the most effective strategies for startup branding, we’ve gathered fourteen diverse insights from CEOs, Founders, and Marketing Managers. One often overlooked marketing tool is building the CEO/Founder’s personal brand. Leveraging every outlet is key.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Friday, April 3 was supposed to be the orderly launch of the CARES Act Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) providing $349B of urgently needed funding to struggling startups and small businesses. Last Friday was anything but orderly. The information on this page was updated on April 6th, 2020.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

They’re usually motivated by a combination of financial returns, a search for strategic benefits with their core operating business, and passion about tech. If that’s true in the liquid, transparent public markets, all the more so is it true in the illiquid, opaque private markets. But how should they go about it?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The complete guide to finding truly special talent Image by author Suppose you want to digitize your business “for real”, where you have a sensible digital strategy and development of existing teams and recruit the digital stars who can close the gaps you have internally. In that case, several different criteria apply.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

Arcadia guides companies on homeworking energy costs. The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. Medisafe raises $30M for AI that helps people take medication. Volvo unit teams with Israel’s Foretellix on autonomous safety.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

startup has already spent a couple of years in R&D developing an easy-to-perform, proprietary at-home hormone test to underpin a forthcoming monthly subscription business that will enable users of its (freemium) app to pay to regularly test and report their hormone levels. The 2019-founded U.K. That’s for starters.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We thought we were going to be talking about scale today, but we’re actually going to talk about having small dogs and raising dachshunds, based on what we were catching up on backstage with Claire. Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

It should be your guide for what to avoid. Create a Set of KPIs for How You Manage the Business You should start with a strong set of key performance indicators (KPIs) for how you run your business that your executive team uses irrespective of board communications. This is part of a broader series on Board Meetings.

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HPA

MARCH 23, 2020

Over the last couple weeks, HPA has been working diligently to build a resource guide with aggregated content. As we all navigate this unprecedented time, we wanted to equip you with helpful information and important resources as it relates to your business. Chicago Small Business Resiliency Loan Fund (IL). (

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propel(x)

MARCH 2, 2017

Around the same time we started that analysis, I met scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab who were looking to commercialize an electrochromic glass technology and wanted a co-founder who had been through the startup lifecycle before. Then, I basically had a one year startup hiatus where I was trying to figure out what to do next.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JUNE 17, 2022

Just like on the Schuylkill, there are floaters lurking just below the surface of the capital markets. To the untrained eye, these zombies might have appeared to be alive and well– but they got deaded a long time ago by unsustainable business models and trading strategies. and ultimately auctioned off in a fire sale.

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