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Business Start-up Costs

March 6, 2011

In the busyness of getting the idea right, most entrepreneurs end up ignoring the business startup costs. Out of the 10 social venture ideas evaluated today, we found invariably, our friends had ignored this aspect consistently.

Experience shows that the start-up costs are significant in any form of the business. Especially during selling the idea, recruiting initial team members/ volunteers, getting the seed funding and setting up the operational mode of the business including office/web/communication infrastructure. Most of the time, over 50% of initial spending will be in this bucket depending how mature the idea is.

There are various tools/templates available to help build a budget and basis for business start-up costs. One such great resource is available here: Business Start-up Cost Template

Check out their site :

– A great resource for various tools, templates, calculators,etc., in mostly MS Excel, OpenOffice formats. There are several free templates + economically priced ones if you are planning for business purpose. Check out their blog too for very insightful advice on variety of subjects.

Tools and Services for a frugal organization

October 15, 2010

Frugal Organizations are characterized by value focused approach to everything. Invariably, most of the startups bootstrapping themselves adopt a frugal approach. However, the approach is relevant for any organization.

One of the important aspect of this approach is to find, keep and use all tools & services that help in this pursuit. It is that much better if this is contributed by a lot of smart people around the world! and actively feedback on the usefulness/effectiveness!

twtpick.in is a great platform for creating lists of useful items socially! Here is one such list at the site focused on tools & services for a lean startup.

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Worth a try!