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3 weeks to startup

I was asked this question in a comment under an earlier post: I am starting a very small company and I am the only employee, and want to keep it that way until I know when and how to take my next step. Could you recommend where to start? I didn’t publish the comment because [...]

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Books: falling out of fashion, perhaps, but – business books, for sure – still so amazingly practical. What’s an hour of your time worth? How much time can a business book save? I posted here last week, in this context, about John Jantsch’s new book on referral marketing. And today it’s Melinda Emerson’s Become Your [...]

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Are you teaching a class on starting a business? If you are, then I’d like you to be aware of course.bplans.com. That’s where I’ve put up a full curriculum/syllabus including lesson plans, exercises and assignments, online videos, and more than a dozen PowerPoint slide presentations complete with slide-by-slide notes and distribution-friendly photos and graphics. This [...]

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3 Weeks to Startup, Week 3

by Tim Berry on January 27, 2009

This is the third of three parts. The first part appeared here a month ago, and the second here two weeks ago. All three were published first on Entrepreneur.com and are based on the book 3 Weeks to Startup, which I co-authored with Sabrina Parsons. That book, published by Entrepreneur Press, came out in the autumn [...]

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3 Weeks to Startup, Week 2

by Tim Berry on January 19, 2009

This is the second of three parts. The first part appeared here a month ago. All three were published first on Entrepreneur.com, and are based on the book 3 Weeks to Startup, which I co-authored along with Sabrina Parsons.  That book, published by Entrepreneur Press, came out in the autumn of 2008. It’s built on the [...]

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3 Weeks to Startup: Week 1

by Tim Berry on December 19, 2008

I’m happy to see that week 1 of our book 3 Weeks to Startup was featured yesterday on msnbc.com. I’m co-author of this one, along with Sabrina Parsons. Here’s what we’re saying about the idea portion of it: Day 1: Start with a viable idea. Start thinking about whether your core idea makes a viable [...]

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3 Weeks to Startup: Week 1

by Chelle Parmele on December 15, 2008

Palo Alto Software’s Tim Berry and Sabrina Parsons are blogging at Entrepreneur.com for the next several weeks in conjunction with their new book, 3 Weeks to Startup. Each week they will sum up chapters in their book on starting your business in three weeks. You can read Week 1 by going to the Starting a [...]

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This is the second installment of the three-week timetable to start a new business in three weeks. It’s from 3 Weeks to Startup, the book I’ve just finished as co-author with Sabrina Parsons. 3 Weeks to Startup by Tim Berry, Sabrina Parsons What you really have to do, no matter what, as in absolute essentials, [...]

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