You want your exponential growth guys are gonna get busted.

Well, in the past, entrepreneurial education was about execution.

The business has expanded by 50 this year.

Their business is expanding.

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And then we have others working in these other related programs.

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So I have 2,000 left.

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And I had to quit and come and do this thing called A Better Place.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't have any planning but it actually means what we need is planning before the plan and what that really mean is you need to figure out how to actually do some planning and then you get to write the business plan.

The city is planning to extend the boardwalk.

We're expanding, and, well, between you and me the whole department's pretty much of a mess.

This is the largest operation that MNU has ever undertaken, and we believe that it is going to be undertaken successfully.

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Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new business plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.

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Every company has a firm business plan.

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We're going to teach you how to put together the power point for the VC presentation.

There is a scheme to expand the company.

They have to be able to teach us something as well.

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He is planning to develop his business.

His company is extending its business.

What's an operating plan? Well, it's the business plan.

I gave the example of this bank that I keep using

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So I spent three months in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania interviewing entrepreneurs that had received 100 dollars to start or grow a business.

Detailed design is the work of drawing up a diagram that is capable of being manufactured from the plan set in the baseline design.

That's what I'm talking about.

And the belief was all I need to do is spend a lot of time writing this plan, and then all I need to do is execute it and somehow magical thinking said if I thought hard enough and if I was smart enough to do all the great market research in the library and looking up all the data and then put together a forecast the magic 5 year plan in the back of the business plan somehow magically all I needed to do is hire the people to execute that plan.

Let's use our brains to the greatest extent possible and see what happens during the planning stages!

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