Category: Planning
A Visual Business Plan v2.0 (Updated w/Video)
My mind can’t process classic “business plans” (you know, the 20 page Word documents with marketing and sales plans, financing plans, planning the plan plans…) About a year ago, I sketched out a Visual/Circular Business Plan. Now, since I’m introducing the idea to my PebbleStorm “Come Play With Me” group, and now I’ve updated…
A visual/circular business plan
One thing I know about myself: I like circles 🙂 I draw them in my notebooks constantly, to frame or communicate different ideas. Maybe it’s related to Buddhism (“everything is interconnected”), or the circle of life, or… As I mentioned before, I personally can’t do classic business plans, so I often find myself coming up…
The PebbleStorm business plan; Nancy Allan’s “inspiration & sacredness”
(I woke up this morning with my head buzzing on a topic – well, a few, as usual – that have been germinating the past few days. Ideas and conversations and people come to me, and I just keep writing things down in a notebook I carry around until a bunch of the pieces click…
“How will PebbleStorm [or insert your business here] make money?”
When I tell people about PebbleStorm, a common question is “how will it make money?” It’s a good question. And I have no idea. And I don’t care (yet) – both because I already have income, and I’m doing what I LOVE in a way that excites both myself and other people (notice – it…
Project 2057
This 50-year vision came to me in a flash on August 9th, 2007, at lunch with Zaw Thet in Palo Alto. Ah I can remember the moment like it was yesterday 🙂 I wondered, what kind of big, hairy audacious goal would help inspire and focus not just myself, but the entire PebbleStorm community? [1]…