I just read J.D. Roth’s A Quick Guide to Crafting a Budget on Entrepreneur.com. Although I think he’s aiming mostly at personal budgets, there’s a lot there that applies very well to business budgeting and the business planning process that every business can use. The difference between the basic numbers in a useful business plan and [...]
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My monthly column at Entrepreneur.com, Lean Startups Need Business Plans Too, came out yesterday: But here’s my beef in a nutshell: When Ries and Blank criticize the business plan, they are talking about a now-obsolete approach: the formal written business plan. They say it gets in the way of the more agile and flexible lean startup [...]
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What’s the difference between a marketing plan and a business plan? Doesn’t a business plan include a marketing plan? Why would anybody do one without the other? Good questions, and since I get them a lot, I decided to answer them here: A business plan covers the entire business, including overall strategy, financial plans, target [...]
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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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What do award-winning entrepreneurs have in common? The three here won the Entrepreneur.com Entrepreneur of the Year awards for 2010. They accepted the awards last Thursday at the Entrepreneur.com Third Annual Growth Conference, held this year in Atlanta. For each of them there was a short video and a short talk. I was in the [...]
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I’m looking forward to a January 20 date in Atlanta at Entrepreneur Magazine’s Growth 2011 Conference. Last year’s conference in Miami was a great success, and this year’s looks even better. Serial entrepreneur and former governor John Brown will be doing the keynote, there’s an excellent list of speakers and workshops (modesty aside), three entrepreneur-of-the-year [...]
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I’m hoping to be able to do this more often in the future. I tend to put blog posts I like on Twitter, but I’m trying to keep track of them better, so I can also share them with readers of this blog. These are recent posts and columns, three of the five either my [...]
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There was an industrial revolution that created industry. Now we’re in an entrepreneurial revolution, which will create, what? This is a nice thought piece, in less than five minutes, a talk with Seth Godin. Some quotes: Our economy now is evolving around individuals who do work that matters, and people who choose to make a [...]
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I had a really enjoyable time in Miami earlier this week as a guest speaker for the Entrepreneur Magazine/UPS Growth 2.0 Conference. You may have seen my 10 Practical Tips for Starting Fast here Tuesday, taken from my talk there. There was one question I didn’t answer well because it would have taken too long [...]
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I’m at the Entrepreneur Magazine/UPS Growth 2.0 conference in Miami today, speaking on starting a business. I”m pushing getting going today, with the idea of quickly starting a new business. Some highlights: Don’t wait until all the lights are green before you pull out of the driveway. The right business for you is one that [...]
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