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Now For The Useless Business Plan Advice Of The Week Award.

Sure, we know that Twitter’s sort of the wunderkind of the start-up community these days, securing piles of venture capital and a huge valuation without so much as producing a business plan. Their rock...

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Repeat After Me: Business Plans Do Matter.

Yesterday we called the Wall Street Journal out for a story that not only got the facts twisted, but didn’t make a lot of sense. It claimed new researched revealed that “Business Plans Don’t Matter to...

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How To Nail An Interview (Or Screw It Up Really, Really Badly)

When you think about it, pitching a VC and interviewing for a job aren’t so different. Okay, the connection’s somewhat tenuous, but we’re really just looking for an excuse to post these awesome videos...

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“Life Is Not About Being Liked, It’s About Being Effective.”

Let us preface this video by saying that it has nothing do with business plans, although it starts off sounding an awful lot like an elevator pitch gone terribly wrong. Let us also preface it by saying...

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If Reason Won’t Work, We’ll Scare You Into Using Twitter.

Even if you’re not all hip to the new media like Twitter and Facebook, and even if your small business doesn’t have an official presence, here’s a pretty solid reason why you should get with it:...

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Swine Flu! Lindsay Lohan! Business Plans?

Sure, we’re as rattled by – and morbidly curious about – the prospect of a swine flu pandemic as anyone else. But there’s a reason you haven’t read about it on this blog yet: it has nothing to do with...

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Forbes To Entrepreneurs: You Will Fail.

We know all about slow news days, when it seems like there’s nothing business plan-related to write about, but Forbes must really be grasping at straws with this multi-media show: “In Pictures: A...

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CEOs: A History In Bad Photos.

After stumbling upon what must be the millionth photo of Google’s CEO and co-founders posed doing goofy things, we’ve decided that CEOs need to declare a ban on ridiculous photos of themselves. While...

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National Small Business Week: Meeting Our Expectations.

So, as noted yesterday, this week is National Small Business Week, which means a bunch of business and government-types are holding court in D.C. As far as we can tell, that doesn’t translate into a...

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The Best Time Ever To Start A Business…?

“This is the best time ever to start business—people need jobs, existing companies are reeling, fewer startup competitors there are new technologies,” said big-wig venture capitalist Tim Draper of...

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