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Noah Parsons

Before joining Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons was an early Internet marketing and product expert in the Silicon Valley. He joined Yahoo! in 1996 as one of its first 101 employees and become Producer of the Yahoo! Employment property as part of the Yahoo! Classifieds team before leaving to serve as Director of Production at Epinions.com. He is a graduate of Princeton University. Noah devotes most of his free time to his three young sons. In the winter you'll find him giving them lessons on the ski slopes, and in summer they're usually involved in a variety of outdoor pursuits. Noah is currently the COO at Palo Alto Software, makers of the online business plan app LivePlan.

LivePlan Posts Written By Noah Parsons

Posted July 30, 2020 By Noah Parsons

What Are Direct Costs? Cost of Goods Sold Explained

Direct costs or cost of goods sold are expenses attributed to the production of a product or service. Learn why this is vital for growing your business.

Posted July 7, 2020 By Noah Parsons

How to Read and Understand Your Income Statement (Profit and Loss)

Your profit and loss statement is the first financial information that investors and bankers will look at in your plan. Here’s a rundown of what the numbers mean.

Posted June 18, 2020 By Noah Parsons

How to Build a Business Model

Defining your business model is the final step in Lean Planning. In short, it’s how your business will make money. Learn how to define your business model.

Posted June 11, 2020 By Noah Parsons

How to Use Milestones to Create a Roadmap for Your Business

The third step in lean planning is to use the milestones technique to create a roadmap for your business to help you implement your strategy.

Posted June 4, 2020 By Noah Parsons

How Tactics Support your Business Strategy

Your Lean Plan needs strategy, but even a great strategy is useless without tactics. Tactics are the things that you actually do to make your business work. Tactics are your road map—and here’s how to develop them.

Posted April 9, 2020 By Noah Parsons

How to create a plan to save your company in a crisis

When facing an economic crisis, it can be difficult to think about the future of your business. The need to survive takes precedence over planning and that can lead to both short and long-term problems for your business. Read on for steps on how to save your business and pivot to recession-proof success.

Posted March 20, 2020 By Noah Parsons

Why You Should Update Your Budget and Forecasts in the Age of Coronavirus

Don’t let times of uncertainty lead to panic and rushed decisions. Instead find ways to adapt and plan, starting with reviewing your budget and forecasts.

Posted December 19, 2019 By Noah Parsons

Your Business Expense Budget: How to Review and Manage It

Keeping track of your business’s expense budget is really not that much different than managing a personal budget—in fact, it’s strikingly similar with just a few differences.

Posted September 11, 2019 By Noah Parsons

Tracking Metrics Makes You 2x More Likely to Reach Your Goals

We all set goals in our personal lives, but in business, we’re not always as goal-focused. How can we actually track and reach our business goals?

Posted May 16, 2019 By Noah Parsons

A Fast and Easy Way to Build an Expense Budget

Your expense budget is one of the keys to good business management. Here’s a detailed guide on how to build an expense budget—including what not to do.

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