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✏️ Make a Business Plan With ONLY 4 Sticky Notes
#01 StartUp Club Newsletter - If you have a set of sticky notes and a pen, you can create a business plan
Welcome to the newly revamped StartUp.Club Newsletter! If you haven’t already, make sure you subscribe and join the 1 million+ entrepreneurs in this community. 👇
In this newsletter you’ll find:
✏️ How to Make a Business Plan With 4 Sticky Notes
📈 The Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. Workbook Launch
🤖 Catching the AI Wave [Entrepreneur on Fire Interview]
🚀 The Future of AI
📢 This Friday’s Clubhouse
✅ StartUp Club’s FREE List of Custom GPTs
Estimated Read Time: 7 minutes 36 seconds
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HOW TO MAKE A BUSINESS PLAN WITH 4 STICKY NOTES
In this month’s edition, we discuss a handy little tool that any entrepreneur can use — sticky notes!
Stick with me…
You've probably heard of a traditional MBA business plan — ones with a fancy SWOT analysis and market share potential with aggressive targets that happen to be only 0.01 percent of an addressable market generating millions or even billions over the next few years.
I'm not saying you don't want to put that plan together when raising money to scale, but at this stage, we can have a greater impact by figuring out our strategy in a more simplified way.
So why use sticky notes for your business plan?
For one, they're sticky!
You can post them on your board to stay on track.
Second, they're small, and less is more when it comes to developing a simple strategy.
You want to boil down your concepts to very simple points that you and everyone around you can relate to.
Lastly, you can do it in under an hour.
The actual work involved is no more than thirty minutes, yet it can have such a profound impact on your future.
Interested?
See how I’m implementing the 4 sticky note approach below.
4 STICKY NOTE BUSINESS PLAN
If you have a set of sticky notes and a pen, you can create a business plan.
As I talk about in my book Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat., this is an exercise for you and your business partners—not the robust business plan you will show to your seed investors or use at a pitch competition.
So now you’ve got your four multi-colored sticky notes ready, what do you put on there?
📚 STORY
✅ PEOPLE
💰 MONEY
📈 SYSTEMS
Got it?
Now it’s time to get to work! 👇
Check out Colin C. Campbell's recent Forbes blog, Colin reveals his quick and effective method to draft a business plan in just 30 minutes using four simple sticky notes.
Learn how focusing on key elements—Story, People, Money, and Systems—can streamline your planning process and set your startup on the path to success.
WANT TO TRY IT FOR YOURSELF?
START. SCALE. EXIT. REPEAT WORKBOOK LAUNCH! 🎉
Here’s a sneak peak of one of the activities you can find in my workshop 🤫
We're excited to announce the launch of the "Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. Workbook" by Colin C. Campbell, complete with custom GPT AI tools to help you launch and grow your business!
This practical guide, filled with insights from over 30 business experts, is designed to jumpstart your entrepreneurial journey.
Learn foundational strategies and navigate common early-stage challenges with expert advice.
Don't miss out on this essential resource to turn your entrepreneurial dreams into reality – Get your copy on Amazon!
CATCHING THE AI WAVE
Entrepreneur On Fire interview with Colin C. Campbell
Colin C. Campbell joined host John Lee Dumas on "Entrepreneurs on Fire" to reveal the secrets behind his consistent business success and how AI is poised to create unprecedented opportunities for wealth.
What You’ll Learn:
1) Most entrepreneurs think they can do it on their own but it takes a village to raise a start up.
2) There are 3 things to win, to be focused, to make the technology easier to use and to deliver the fastest.
3) We are at the very beginning of one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history. AI will make more millionaires than any other paradigm shifts in history.
Learn about the technology adoption curve, the vital role of community in entrepreneurship, and how to position yourself for success in an AI-driven world.
Listen to the full episode here!
UPCOMING CLUBHOUSE EPISODE
Join us this Friday at 2 PM Eastern on Clubhouse for the Company Values AI Workshop on Serial Entrepreneur: Secrets Revealed! Learn how to create 4-6 impactful value statements for your business during this interactive session. Don't miss out on this opportunity to enhance your company's core values!
THE FUTURE OF AI 🤖
In the not-too-distant future, I see a time when websites and even apps could become a thing of the past.
Think about the app OpenTable.
Yes, your AI assistant could API into that app, or OpenTable could transform into a custom AI.
You could ask your assistant, "What is the best restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, and can you book a table for four?"
The AI assistant then contacts OpenTable's AI, gets the information based on their proprietary database, and relays, "You are now booked at this Italian restaurant for four at 7 PM. Would you like me to confirm?"
We are getting much closer to the time when you will ask someone to do something, and they will respond, "There is an AI for that."
STARTUP CLUB’S FULL LIST OF GPTS
If you made it this far, thank you for reading.
I hope you enjoyed this edition of the StartUp.Club Newsletter!
Don’t forget to pick up my book Start. Scale. Exit. Repeat. → here
Have a topic you’d like me to dive into? Reply back to this email and I’ll see what we can do.
Colin C. Campbell