Resources for Starting a Business

Legal Structures of Organizations

• Legal Forms and Traditional Structures of Organizations

Market Research — Inbound Marketing

• Planning Your Research
• Market Research
• Find and Feed the Feeling

Strategizing

• Understanding Strategy and Strategic Thinking

Competitor Analysis

• Porter’s Five Competitive Forces (Part I)
• Porter’s Five Competitive Forces (Part 2)
• Competitive Intelligence

Product Planning

• Product Management
• E-Commerce

Sales and Services Planning

• Customer Service
• Quality Management
• Sales

Advertising (Planning) — Outbound Marketing

• Advertising (Planning Your)
• Advertising Planning
• Marketing
• All About Social Networking
• Gotta Have a Social Media Strategy

Staffing Analysis and Management Planning

• Job Specification
• Staffing (Planning)

Financial Analysis and Management

• Finances (For-Profit)
• Finances (Nonprofit)
• Financial Projections and Other Business Planning Fantasies
• Typical Revenue Models
• Break-Even Analysis

Feasibility Analysis

• Feasibility Testing — Do Just Enough
• Feasibility Testing — A Lost Art
• Feasibility Testing — Top 10 tips

Pricing

• Pricing Strategies Part 1
• Pricing Strategies Part 2

Funding – Getting

• Fundraising (For Profit)
• Fundraising (Nonprofit)
• Loans (Getting)
• Why Business Plans Don’t Get Funded
• Articulate the Value Your Business Will Deliver
• Seed Money from Crowdsourcing
• Crowdfunding Update
• Promises and Problems With Microcredit