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5 Steps To Get You From Your First Idea To A Business

Startup Professionals Musings

Then, he'll need to patent it and create a plan to show opportunity, competition, and financial projections. I have found that the process of writing down your idea, with a plan for implementation, and reviewing that plan with a business advisor, will force you to learn and acknowledge the real requirements for implementation.

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Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

InfoChachkie

"The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. This frugality was evidenced by the fact that everyone at Microsoft, even Gates, flew coach until well into the late 1990s. One Of The Most Important Startup Skills. "The " [Tweet this quote].

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10 Actions That Will Transform You From Good To Great

Startup Professionals Musings

For leaders, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point.

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10 Key Steps For Aspiring Billionaire Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

For an entrepreneur, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point.

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10 Simple Actions Will Inspire More Startup Results

Startup Professionals Musings

For an entrepreneur, this is often evident in the willingness to be coached, by outside experts or by your own team. Dean Kamen, while still struggling with the Segway Human Transporter, holds 440 other device patents. Bill Gates of Microsoft, even late in his career, wasn’t afraid to jump in and write some code to illustrate a point.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

You are writing about the essentials of business. I am planning right not to write a post about how startups often get SEO wrong. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues.

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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

socalTECH

Instead of writing a book, we wanted to develop a platform to bring our methods to life, and scale our knowledge. We have patents filed on this process. But, it didn't seem scalable. That became our company Hit the Ground Running, which we launched in 2007 to help a number of Fortune 500 clients with our technology and methodologies.

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