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by Chelle Parmele on September 3, 2011

Did you miss any of Tim’s great posts from the last week? Never fear, we’ve got them listed out below. Click to your hearts content! Test Your Leadership With These Two Questions Are you running a business, or an organization, or a team? For a quick rating of your own leadership, ask yourself these questions [...]

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Did you miss any of Tim’s great posts from the last week? Never fear, we’ve got them listed out below. Click to your hearts content!   Ideas: Evolutionary Computing and Internet As Brain Call it coincidence, serendipity, synchronicity, or just random, but last week I was accidentally exposed to two seemingly unrelated ideas that ended [...]

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Can I ask you for a quick favor? Tim Berry, the founder of Palo Alto Software and a personal friend, was just nominated as a Small Business Influencer in the Guru category on SmallBizTrends.com. Everyone at Palo Alto Software would love to see him win. We’re hoping that you can help us out by voting [...]

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In the more than 30 years I’ve been involved with business planning, I’ve seen styles and fashion of plans change a lot, but the fundamentals remain fairly constant. To help you craft a plan that hits all the right notes, here’s a list of some of the more common business planning mistakes you should avoid: [...]

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When I first started working with business plans back in the late 1970s, the average plan was much longer and more complex than what I see today. That might be because business plans are more common than they used to be–they’re used more and more often and by more people. It might also be a [...]

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Talking about starting a business? Before you start the talking, identify yourself and your business on this scale. It makes a huge difference. Try to choose one of three possible choices, the one that most applies to you and your business. Just get going: you don’t need anybody’s approval except possibly your first customer or [...]

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As promised, here are the questions asked during the “The Lies You’ve Been Told About Business Planning” webinar that we did not have time to address. Q: Hello. We are a small manufacturing company in business for 3 years producing a few products for 2 separate companies. We are currently branding two of our own [...]

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The 3rd annual  Global Entrepreneurship Week at UnleashingIdeas.org is ending today. Palo Alto Software was pleased to participate once again in this event. As in years past, we added to the conversation about entrepreneurship by offering some one-on-one time with our President and founder, Tim Berry. On Wednesday, Tim spent an hour going over the [...]

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Blogs and bloggers come and go. But when you have the right combination of dedication, subject knowledge, and the writing chops to sit down and do it day after day, a blog emerges that stands the test of time. Over at Planning Startups Stories today, Tim Berry published his 1,000th post on “business planning, starting and [...]

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Tim Berry discusses one of the most often asked questions: “How do I know if my business plan is right? Isn’t it just a bunch of guesses?”

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