Tim Berry

The question surprised me: “Is it a red flag for a founder to have a child while a startup is still in an early age?” It’s an odd view on startup founders with children. Enough to prompt me...

https://timberry.com/what-founders-with-kids/

No, it’s not really the format, the pictures, or the design … although those help. Ugly, confused, or disjointed is never an advantage. But what makes a successful pitch in a pitch presentati...

https://timberry.com/what-makes-a-successful-pitch/

If you’re a business owner, and especially if you’re in the expert business, you should know this small business fraud story. It involves a very sophisticated scheme, including a fraudulent c...

https://timberry.com/horror-story-of-small-business-fraud/

… is where you are. Sure, there are exceptions. Maybe you’re young, and have no roots. Or maybe you just want to move to somewhere else. But, barring special cases, look around you. The best ...

https://timberry.com/the-best-place-to-start-your-business/

I get it. What a nice dream … just sell business ideas, and let somebody else take the risk, find the money, and do the work. Sounds great, right? Just sell business ideas? Except that the work...

https://timberry.com/where-can-i-sell-my-business-ideas/

These are very common false assumptions in entrepreneurship. “What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.” — Mark Twain I answe...

https://timberry.com/7-very-common-false-assumptions-in-entrepreneurship/

I've been posting on the main bplans blog during the pandemic crisis. Here are six recent posts. Several focus on the economic crisis. The post Some Posts on Managing During a Crisis appeared ...

https://timberry.com/my-recent-posts-on-bplans/

Please don’t ever estimate the importance of startup founder compatibility. It’s vital. And it may not be what you think. The relationship among founders of a healthy business is like a marri...

https://timberry.com/startup-founder-compatibility-is-vital/

There is some bad advice floating around in the startup world. Useful as the Lean Canvas is, and despite some well-intentioned suggestions of summaries, those are not business plans. They don’t...

https://timberry.com/frameworks-and-summaries-dont-replace-business-planning/

From Seth Godin’s post Meaningless, published today… There are words that now have no meaning at all. ‘Well’ and ‘so’ have been doing this work for a long time, but add to that the mo...

https://timberry.com/avoid-meaningless-words/