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Should You Include Your Sweat Equity in a Business Plan?

Oct 28, 2020 By Dave Berkus

Investors love it when entrepreneurs draw little or no money from their startups.  It extends the cash available for research and other necessary fixed costs and gives the fragile, young company more “runway” to get to breakeven. What are you worth to the business? But when forecasting the ultimate viability of a business, many times […]

Filed Under: Creating a Plan Tagged With: Business Plan

The 5 Departments Your Small Business Needs

Sep 22, 2020 By Devin Caldwell

It’s easy to think that the outlook for small businesses isn’t great. Many don’t survive for long, and others wither away in times of financial hardship. In order to give your small business a chance to thrive, you need to set it up for success from the beginning. If you’re looking to give your small […]

Filed Under: Getting Your Office Ready, Startup Tagged With: Business Plan

Where Can I Sell My Business Ideas?

Sep 3, 2020 By Tim Berry

I get it. What a nice dream … just sell the business idea, and let somebody else take the risk, find the money, and do the work. Except that the work, the risk, and the money is what gives the business idea value. Don’t Dream. Execute. So nowhere. The answer to your question about where […]

Filed Under: Creating a Plan, Startup Tagged With: Business Plan

10 Perfect Hacks to Run Your Small Business Better

Aug 7, 2020 By Jeremy Bowler

Trying to run a small business in the best possible way is something that you need to focus on right now, and there are so many things to think about when it comes to achieving this. Try to do as much as you can to work on taking things forward in the right way, and […]

Filed Under: Innovation, Run and Grow Tagged With: Business Plan, Competition, Digital, Hiring Employees

Should You Start a Business? Test Your Idea First

Jun 30, 2020 By Tim Berry

As I write this, during the worst pandemic in 100 years, in the grips of a severe economic slowdown — let’s all hope it’s just recession, not depression — people still want to start new businesses. We still come up with new business ideas. Some ideas come from the new problems we are experiencing, some are long-standing good […]

Filed Under: Creating a Plan, Startup Tagged With: Business Plan

Moving from a Business Idea to Business Actuality

Jun 3, 2020 By SmallBizClub

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Things to Know, Consider and Do. Just about anyone can come up with ideas for a business venture. This is usually the easy part. The difficult part usually lies in actually being able to transmute that idea into reality. It is at this stage that most people fall short. While the vast majority of people […]

Filed Under: Personal Readiness, Startup Tagged With: Business Plan, Incorporation

How to Use COVID-19 Crisis to Refocus Your SME

Jun 1, 2020 By Annie Button

There may be no business in America that has not felt the impact of COVID-19 one way or another. SMEs are more likely to be disproportionately affected by the crisis; in fact, more than 60 percent of smaller businesses believed that their revenue was likely to shrink in the next six months. Where larger businesses […]

Filed Under: Leadership, Strategic Planning Tagged With: Business Plan, COVID-19

3 Important Questions You Must Ask To Build A Strong Startup

May 15, 2020 By Ayla Anderson

Building a company from the ground up, no matter how small it is, is a difficult process that can trip up even the most experienced entrepreneurs. Startups are well-known for their unique ability to suck your energy and resources and then leave you with feeble results in the end. That’s one side of the coin. […]

Filed Under: Creating a Plan, Startup Tagged With: Business Plan

The Basics: All You Need To Know About Running a Small Business

Mar 13, 2020 By Devin Caldwell

Owning a small business is one of the most rewarding and challenging things you can do. You’re responsible for your success and get to focus on doing things your way. Though it’s ultimately up to you, there are a few things you’ll need to do to make sure your company can be as successful as […]

Filed Under: Run and Grow Tagged With: Business Plan, Loans

Do Those Summaries. Use Those Frameworks. But Don’t Think They Replace Business Planning.

Mar 6, 2020 By Tim Berry

There is some bad advice floating around in the startup world. Useful as the Lean Canvas is, and despite some well-intentioned suggestions of summaries, those are not business plans. They don’t deal with the drivers and components of cash flow. They don’t set milestones, metrics, and tracking. You can’t run a business with them. And […]

Filed Under: Creating a Plan, Startup, Strategic Planning Tagged With: Angel Investors, Business Plan

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