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Running Board Meetings – Six Tips

This web link has been contributed by Emily Williams

If your entrepreneurial business has just started convening meetings of the Board of Directors, it will be important to ensure you do not end up having pointless lengthy conversations leading to ‘zero results’. With some careful planning and foresight, you can make these meetings livelier, engaging, effective and highly productive.

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Board Meetings

Business Plan Template

Once you have a model for your business, a business plan is important too. Rather than trying to figure out which template to use, try using one that can cater to mosr kinds of businesses. Click on the image below to acccess the web link for this

 

Business Plan Template

Questions To Ask About Your Business Model

business modelOne of the leading thinkers about business models is Alex Osterwalder, the authored the book Business Model Generation and articulated the Business Model Canvas. Osterwalder advises that entrepreneurs ask themselves the following questions about their business model as this may be helpful in identifying strengths and weaknesses in the approach to the business…

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Business Plan Outline

Business Plan OutlineHow simple or complex your business plan will be will depend of course on the size of your business and the level of detail required by the target audience. The business plan outline proposed below is a comprehensive one that provides a full template. You can simplify/modify this to suit the requirement…

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Evaluating Your Business Idea

There is no magical way to predict if your business idea is going to take off or not. This entrepreneur however provides some insights on the kind of thinking that gives you some clues about the feasibility of your business proposition

 

Planning is Guessing

Transcript of a presentation by David Hansson – co-founder of the successful web based firm called 37signals and the founder of the Ruby on Rails development environment.
 
One of the biggest things (with startups) is probably realizing that planning is guessing. And all of those techniques that you’ve been taught are mostly about planning. Long term planning, strategic planning, tactical planning. All sorts of planning that leads to really, really funny things like start-ups that have five-year growth plans. What? You don’t even have anything yet and you’re theorizing about how it’s going to look in year five? How do you know? You don’t…

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