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Business Plan Outline (Free)

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by Eric | Feb 6, 2010, 10:48am EST

The web is stock full of Business Plan sales pitches, most costing between 39 to 179 dollars.  Please find below a sample taken from Sequoia’s Website.  For those who do not know, Sequoia Capital is one of the truly elite of Venture Capital firms.   I personally spent some time with Michael Moritz at Sequoia, [...]

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Technology CEO’s after Congress to Get Trade Moving

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by Eric | Feb 5, 2010, 11:01am EST

CEOs from the nation’s leading technology companies today called on Congress to act on the Obama Administration’s National Export Initiative to double U.S. exports in five years. In a speech on Thursday outlining the National Export Initiative, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke said, “Increasing the export of American products and services to global markets can help [...]

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US Consumer Confidence Falls According to RBC

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by Eric | Feb 4, 2010, 7:26am EST

U.S. consumer confidence cooled this month as worries over every facet of their financial situation mounted, according to the most recent results of the RBC CASH (Consumer Attitudes and Spending by Household) Index. Economic attitudes soured across the board, with consumers viewing the current economy negatively and displaying increased pessimism about the future. As a [...]

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Why There Aren’t More Googles

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by Eric | Feb 4, 2010, 7:07am EST

Back when I started my first company, Lombard Brokerage, I was 27 years old and ready to conquer the world.  As the business grew and grew, I started to look at my personal situation and the impact selling could have on my family.  I had this idea, that if I could just put one big [...]

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Creating Legends

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by Eric | Feb 2, 2010, 9:04am EST

Below follows a post by Steve Blank.  I think it effectively shows the life of being in a startup and how the dynamics of recognition and pay tend to work.  Enjoy Entrepreneurs and the early startup team all need to be motivated by a shared vision, passion and desire to build a large company.  Yet [...]

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Consumer Spending Rose with Personal Savings Increasing

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by Eric | Feb 1, 2010, 6:54am EST

U.S. consumer spending rose slightly less than expected in December as households opted to save extra cash, liftingsavings to a six-month high, a government report showed on Monday. The Commerce Department said spending rose 0.2 percent after increasing by an upwardly revised 0.7 percent in November. Consumer spending in November was previously reported to have [...]

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US Economy Coming Around (Finally)

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by Eric | Jan 29, 2010, 12:14pm EST

U.S. real GDP rose a much stronger-than-expected 5.7 per cent annualized in Q4, building on a modest 2.2 per cent advance in Q3, and a far cry from the 5.4 per cent slide of a year ago.

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