How to finance your startup? You can buy books on that topic, take courses, and hire consultants. It’s complex and it changes fast for different times, places, and financing options. But for people just looking at this question for the first time, here 10 general rules and guidelines. Warning: There are exceptions in every case. [...]
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January of 1995. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. The so-called “Internet” had existed for years, but seemed to the rest of us (anybody outside of a few spook havens and ivory towers) like a nerdy background utility for emails. And I started bplans.com. I hope you’ve noticed big changes [...]
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One of the biggest barriers to better business planning is the horribly mistaken and disappointedly common myth that develop a business plan takes months. That’s just wrong. And harmful, too, because it pushes away people who could use planning, but don’t because it takes too much effort. They think. In the real world, where good [...]
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They keep coming … a steady flow … How do I write a business plan this? …or that? …or the next thing. How do I do a business plan for [type of business]? We’ve introduced a new question-and-answer feature here at bplans.com. I love the underlying idea: ask what you know, browse the questions, answer [...]
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No, I’m not breaking up with entrepreneur.com. I’ve worked with them happily for 10 years already and I expect to continue to work with them in the future. But this blog, all 801 posts of it, has moved from its old home at upandrunning.entrepreneur.com to its new place here at bplans.com. As it moves, I [...]
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Today I posted 10 Blogging Tips, 1,000 posts on Planning Startups Stories, my main blog. That was a special post; it took a lot of extra time, and I’d like to take advantage of this space here to invite you to read that there. Here’s an executive summary: My personal favorite posts are on the [...]
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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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Consider yourself one of the first to know about the new Bplans.com pitch site at pitch.bplans.com. That means you can be one of the first to pitch and one of the first to get posted. No, it’s not about putting your business in front of investors, although maybe it could be partly related to that. [...]
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I’m happy to bring to your attention a brand new article on bplans.com by one of our newest contributors, Maisha Walker. Maisha is the Founder & President of message medium, a 10-year old New York City Internet Strategy firm that focuses exclusively on Small Businesses. You can follow Maisha on Twitter or learn about her [...]
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One of Palo Alto Software’s most popular websites is www.bplans.com website, on that free resource website you can find hundreds of articles on a wide array of business planning information from starting your business to incorporation and buying a business. We also have a page full of extremely helpful business calculators. One of our most [...]
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