Social Media Guru Josh “Shua” Peters gives you some tips and tricks on implementing Social Media/Marketing into your startup. Somewhere along the way, it also becomes a Twitter “how to.” There is some top notch name dropping, and the secret is out: I admit that I have a man crush on Gary Vaynerchuck. Oh yeah, and I get hit with a frying pan…
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In this titillating new episode of our vlog, you get to see deep into the dark hole that is Adam Welling. We explore the many things that make Adam tick, including his fury when you tell him that his sisters are hot. It’s not my fault his sisters are hot. Enjoy. Love. Comment.
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The economy, the bailout, small business, big business, no loans, financing troubles, newspapers going out of business, millions of jobs lost so far and more to come. One can’t help but think we are in for some much darker times before we see the light, but does it really have to go that way? Maybe a little it does, but does it have to be as bad as everyone says it’s going to be?
Being in the position of starting a business involving more people than myself I have been thinking about what I would be doing in this position. What if RoyalAnts was looking at cutting expenses? Where would we start where would we look to shave some of the financial fat? What does this have to do with Starting up a Startup?
Sit down, make yourself at home and I’ll tell you.
As with most things there are a couple schools of thought on this topic. The first is that the Business Plan is absolutely necessary and is the core of your startup. The Second is that all it does is get in the way. Of the small businesses I polled on Twitter the only reason anyone had one was if they were looking for funding, other wise it was just too time consuming (which it should be)
Either way you look at it one thing is certain, if you’re looking for funding a business plan is absolutely necessary. That’s why I’m going to talk about it, we have created a small business plan and so we’ve been through the pain. It’s not investor worthy yet, but then we aren’t looking for investment right now anyways.
At the root of it all a business plan is a way to put on paper the goals, growth plan, business / management plans for your business. It’s there to help organize your thoughts and goals regarding your business and help keep you on track, it’s not there to drag you down and suck up your time. I’m going to get into the sections of a business plan, but first we need to create a ficticious business.
I posted the question to Twitter and Seth Simonds from the wickedly funny The Dating Papers was the first to respond with
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