Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 26, 2022

A smarter approach is to test your ideas before even creating something. In this article, I’m going to show you how to ethically create a Minimum Viable Course so that you can test your course ideas before wasting time on creating something that’s not going to sell. Then let’s get started. So pick your poison.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Twenty-seven years into her career at Accenture, she’s with Accenture Ventures , the venture capital firm of the global business. That’s both in terms of what the pandemic has brought and how businesses have adapted. This includes getting a business plan together. What do you think of less than 1%? she tells Ramon.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? He was at a low point: overwhelmed, sleep deprived, stressed… I listened, nodded, and said, “I remember those days.” The question I asked them was this: If you could go back in time and give your younger self some advice just as you were starting your founder journey, what would you say?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 2, 2023

Partnering with the right co-founder is the biggest determinant of your future success. Hence, it’s important to spend significant time up-front to probe co-founder compatibility more deeply — beyond sharing your work experiences, future vision, or a brief phone call. These are the folks you should be starting with.

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Startup Blogpost

AUGUST 18, 2023

It basically talks about how, instead of betting everything on one big idea and risking it all, you need to start by firing small “bullets”—testing out various ideas on a smaller scale. Similarly, when serving customers, I ensured no single client accounted for most of my business.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 1, 2021

I was talking with a good friend of mine about how he would love to be able to go into business for himself. On the other hand, he is now equally well positioned to capitalise on those same things and build a business of his own. Well it’s true that starting any business involves an element of risk. And rightly so.

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StartupNation

JUNE 25, 2021

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman once said that starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the airplane on the way down. However, by having all of this well thought out beforehand, you can save your nerves, and instead of coming up with strategies from scratch, you have a base to build from.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

I was starting Senior year at Northwestern, only had a few classes left, and decided to find a program where I could formally learn the ins and outs of VC. What has been your biggest challenge when it comes to finding the “right deals”? A lot of startups with co-founders only have one of the founders pitching the idea.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 26, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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StartupNation

MARCH 16, 2021

To build successful businesses, entrepreneurs must fall in love with solving customer problems more than their own ideas. Entrepreneurs often rush to build and test their ideas using the lean startup methodology. As such, successful innovators are committed to solving customer problems rather than simply proving their own ideas.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2023

As a side benefit, my parents might have some idea of what I actually do for work. Growth is one of those silicon valley business terms that has made it into the general business lexicon, yet most people don’t know what it actually means. To start, let’s talk about the traditional marketing funnel. What is Growth?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 25, 2022

When we found product-market fit later that year and started bringing on lots of new customers, instead of spending engineering resources on re-architecturing our platform to scale, we were able to double down on product engineering to accelerate the growth. And good people follow good people, helping you grow your team down the road.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many would-be entrepreneurs never start because they’re waiting for the perfect idea or don’t have enough disposable capital to break out of the rat race. These accomplished entrepreneurs and members of The Oracles share how to start with $100. That’s how you start building your capital. Buy and flip.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The key to being able to run a business that isn’t yet profitable (on operating margin) is availability of capital to finance losses and preferably at a cost that isn’t too punitive to the founders and employees. CAC Let me start with the easy stuff and graduate to the punch line in the final section. LTV is imprecise.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

5 myths to avoid on the 1st leg of your entrepreneurship journey What you don’t have to eat to pursue your passion (Image from WikiMedia Commons) There is a path to entrepreneurship promoted in Hollywood and there is a path for the rest of us. Rather than coming from the travel industry, I was a business litigator.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Photo by Matthew Osborn on Unsplash As founder of six startups, advisor to founders, and a startup strategist at IMD ( #1 ranked business school ), I see many mistakes being made and have made many myself. As a founder, when you start building a product, you start with hypotheses and try to validate them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup. MakeSpace provides physical storage.

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StartupNation

JUNE 2, 2021

As an entrepreneur, you likely rely on email every day. You send transactional messages and make sure your customers have everything they need to navigate your products or services successfully. But beyond that, are you using email marketing , like a startup newsletter, to grow your business?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Forewarned is forearmed Photo by Anna Schvets via Pexels 18 months ago, I decided to start my own business. I had a great idea for a tool the market was crying out for, and a technical co-founder to build it. but if you play your cards right, it easily trumps working for someone else. more or less.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 16, 2021

While the pandemic has created numerous obstacles for entrepreneurs, some of the best and most inventive ideas have been born out of adverse circumstances. January is the perfect time to re-evaluate what worked and what didn’t work over the course of the past 12 months in order to set new intentions for your business.

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Startup Blogpost

APRIL 28, 2023

If you’re thinking about turning your hobby into a business, you’re not alone. We’ve gathered advice from 15 successful entrepreneurs and business leaders, offering insights from researching all aspects thoroughly to familiarizing yourself with management.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 17, 2017

Every company has a personalized business model, one that separates them from the herd. In this special interview, Zak and Ryan offer insights into their EO journey, the decision to adopt a new business model, and how a flat focus has led to a surge in productivity and innovation. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO START A BUSINESS TOGETHER?

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This is advice for people who have done scientific research at a university and are considering starting a company to commercialize it. You can start a company while continuing your academic career. If you are a student graduating soon, you can just wait until you graduate; that’s a perfect time to start a company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. We’ve tapped experts across myriad startup core competencies, from fundraising to operations to marketing, to outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business. Nailing Your Series A.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

While this is a critically important element of the process, successful entrepreneurs must first focus on choosing the right business model. From identifying your customer base to determining how you will sell your services or come up with new products, your business model will ultimately define everything you do.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations! As someone with “founder” on your resume, you have an extra challenge in getting a traditional salaried job. Especially if your life partner and/or bank account are burnt out on the income volatility of startups? .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

To learn more about how the space has evolved “and when they expect their investments to start paying off,” Karan Bhasin interviewed: Sri Pangulur, partner, and Paul Lee, partner, Tribe Capital. Depending on your business, extending credit to customers can also jump-start growth and lock in financial stability.

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The Zapier Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

But it's perfectly valid to take a break to see what other AI chatbots are available. Build your own AI chatbot with no-code Here's how Allow me to save you a dozen Google searches (or ChatGPT prompts). You'll even see how you can build your own AI chatbot if you don't find what you're looking for here.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s not about having a great idea; it’s about execution. But as I started, there was no playbook, no blog posts, and only a few books on entrepreneurship. So I’ve learned the hard way that the key to success in entrepreneurship is not about having a great idea but mainly about execution. At this time, I learned to learn.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

What were the final things on your mind before joining, and how soon after you started did you feel like the decision was validated as being a good one? The idea of working at a company whose entire business model revolves around catering to buyers in the HR space felt like such a breath of fresh air.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but when it comes to getting ahold of an appointment for your hair or another treatment…that’s a different story: The bespoke nature of a lot of the work has meant that a large swathe of the professionals providing these services have stayed offline when it comes to interfacing with customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Instead of financial engineering and the improved management techniques that PE promotes , we’ll start seeing AI cut costs and make existing companies vastly more profitable…while also enabling new business models to emerge. Verification, validation, obscure corner cases, automation of tedious tasks—all of these can be done by AI.

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Reforge

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Table of Contents What happens when we lose sight of customers How customer-centricity builds a competitive moat How to know if you’ve left your customers behind How to get back on track Common mistakes to avoid Data shows that customer-centered businesses outperform their competition. As the business grows, the team does, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. It did come at the end of 3 marathon weeks of travel to SF, London & NY and I had just gotten back the day before so I’m a bit exhausted as you can probably tell. MARK] I started comp sci.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2022

A Very Honest Guide to Writing Your Fundraise Pitch Deck How to optimise yours for success Congratulations! You’ve started a company, assembled a super squad of founders, and built out the MVP of your product. It’s going pretty well, and you think it’s the right time to speed up your growth by raising some money.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

I always start my answer to this question with, “you’d have to be a pretty big baby to complain about being a VC.&# It is the equivalent of going to a coffee shop every day and having intellectual debates. I get to do a deep dive on their business model, product roadmap and competitive positioning.

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Jason Malki

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

What motivated you to launch your startup? That’s why we started Nuffsaid. If you had to share “words of wisdom” with a Founder who’s about to start their own startup, what would they be? Take your time, and focus on hiring a “10” level leader in design and engineering. LinkedIn and Twitter are your friends here.

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