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Is Your Start-up Company Truly Ready for Business Development?
Business development-- defined as strategic partnerships, sales channel and reseller relationships, and other joint marketing and sales efforts-- can be an excellent way for start-ups and other small companies to grow their business faster and more efficiently. However, along with the benefits of doing a business development deal come many changes and trade-offs. In this article, we look at two key criteria for business development success: we argue that start-ups must be both 'operationally' and 'organizationally' capable of executing on a deal for the partnership to be a success.

Flight of Angels
The current economic crash may force 'Bootstrapping' to be the primary funding strategy for many startup companies, for the next few years.
Stick to Your Guns and Understand That Failure is Natural
Stick to your guns. Outside advice should be welcomed but the vision should come from the entrepreneur and you should stick to your guns. Just because nobody has done it before doesn’t mean that you can’t; I urge entrepreneurs to maintain their vision, and the payoff will come.

Chasing your Longtail
An overview of long tail and short tail keywords on a recently created site.

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Passive-Aggressive Behavior Is Useless In A Startup
If you are making the move from a big company to a startup, Scott Converse has a must read post up about passive-aggressive behavior titled Corporate vs. Startup behaviors.
Learn To Avoid Ugly Baby Syndrome
Last week we talked about creating a "Startup Plan" for your new business idea. To catch you up, a Startup Plan is a detailed list of tasks and subtasks that must be completed in order to get you from the initial idea stage to opening day and beyond.
Ten Tips For a Successful Ezine
Looking for ezine startup advice? Look no further. These ten ezine startup tips will guarantee you produce a winning business newsletter.
Startups: Top 10 Funding Sources
Even in today’s stressed economy, there are multiple ways to keep your startup alive and moving forward. I find that many startup founders fixate on one or two, often at the expense of their business. Following is a prioritized larger list of sources, with some “rules of thumb” which may save you a lot of time and energy:

Startup Valuation: 3 Tips For Putting A Price On Your Company
When raising angel or venture capital, startup founders are often concerned with questions about the valuation of their company. Putting a value on an early stage company-- especially one with very little or no revenue and negative cash flow-- is difficult to do, since most traditional valuation methods do not work well for startups. In this article, we discuss how startup companies are valued by investors and how you should set a valuation range when dealing with seed, angel, or VC investors.

High-Velocity Business Growth: Instagram
I love it when a company consciously learns from real world users, then takes off like a rocket ship. That's exactly what's happening to Instagram, a hot photo-sharing startup.
The Startup Visa Act of 2011
Today Senators Kerry (D-MA), Lugar (R-IN) and Udall (D-CO) unveiled the Startup Visa Act of 2011. This is an updated version of the Startup Visa bill from last year that is aimed at making it much easier for foreign entrepreneurs who want to start a company in the US to get a visa. Today, this process is incredibly difficult and has been stifling the creation of new companies and the corresponding job creation that these companies provide.

Four Stages of Startup Development
The Startup Genome project is a study of 650 startup companies in an attempt to understand why some startups suceed and others do not. The authors of the Startup Genome project aid significantly in understanding how and why startups develop and succeed or fail.
A Five Point Strategy for Job Creation
Most of the net new jobs in the last decade have come from business startup less than 5 years old. Yet, the number of startups, in 2010, was at an all time low. We present a strategy to return the startup numbers to their pre-recession highs in 2006. Entrepreneurs are key to returning unemployment to a reasonable 5%-7%.
5 Reasons Why You Need To Build A Financial Model For Your Startup
To be successful, entrepreneurs and startup founders need to have a good handle on their business. The best way to do this is to build a financial model, which will give greater insight into your company. It will also make your startup more attractive to venture capital investors, lenders, or angel investors.

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