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- AllBusiness.com: Business Plans
This complete guide to business plans explains why they are important, when to write them, and presents actual case studies of successful business planning.
- American Express: Creating an Effective Business Plan
Online workshop that will help you create a business plan to guide your business through the start-up or growth phase, a search for capital, and other small business endeavors.
- BizPlantIt.Com: Virtual Business Plan
Unique, free online resource that mirrors the major sections of a business plan. Point and click your way to the information you need to write and improve your business plan.
- Bizzed: Business Planning Workshop
Three-part online workshop created by experts from Cornell University.
- Bplans.com: Business Plans and Marketing Plans
Provides sample business and marketing plans and lots of how-to information. Special section on Dot.com plans and how to land financing.
- Business Planning Resources: Starting a Business: Business Planning
Information to help managers and business owners define, create, and write thorough, professional looking business plans that will act as a guide for employees and an influential document for acquiring venture capital.
- CCH Business Owner's Toolkit: Planning Your Business
Section on business plans from Commerce Clearinghouse's SOHO Guidebook. Describes what a business plan can do for you, preparing and writing one, and what to do with it after it's finished. A few case studies are provided.
- Center for Business Planning
Provides information on every area of planning a business: acquiring venture capital, defining new products, market analysis, competitive analysis, production management, tax problems, legal issues, preparing financial statements, writing business plans.
- Deborah Kluge Independant Consultant: Proposal Writing - Government Contracting
Search engine for Proposal Writing, Government Contracting, Grants, Small and Disadvantaged Business, International Bids and Tenders, and International Development.
- Entreprenuer's Guidebooks: Writing a Business Plan
Illustrated guide that identifies and discusses the five essential elements of a business plan: Introductory Section, Company Plan, Marketing Plan, Financial Plan, Supporting Documents. 70 pages, PDF format. Free Adobe Acrobat reader required.
- growthink.com: 10 Key Business Plan Components
Each of these components is required to fulfill the needs of sophisticated investors.
- Inc.com: Writing a Business Plan
Collection of feature articles on various aspects of putting a business plan together, including market research and financial issues.
- LivePlan.com: Sample Plan for Web-Based Business
Sample business plan for InteliChild.com, an Internet based company providing a fun and educational experience for "Net kids." Summary view, outline view, charts, and tables.
- MoreBusiness.com: Business and Marketing Plans
Links to information, sample plans, downloadable templates.
- Nolo.com: The Essentials of a Business Plan
"All business plans need to show two things: that the business idea is a good one, and that the numbers show a profit."
- Planning Freeware: Free-Plan & Biz-Plan
Thirty-six page document containing detailed guidelines on the structure and contents of a business plan to suit an established business or reasonably substantial start-up. It is supplied in Microsoft Word format within a zipped file.
- Prentice-Hall: Business Plan Evaluation Scale
When potential lenders or investors review a business plan, they are keenly aware of the risk/return tradeoff. This tool lets you see how well your plan scores based on 12 critical factors.
- PricewaterhouseCoopers: Vision to Reality: Entrepreneur Resource Center
Tools and techniques for developing the business plan for your rapidly growing company. Includes an example of a complete business plan in PDF format, requiring free Adobe Acrobat reader.
- Royal Bank: The Big Idea
Online tutorial designed to guide you through the steps of developing and fine-tuning your business plan. Consists of a planning guide, examples of business plans, and tips and strategies from other small business owners and entrepreneurs.
- SBA: Business Plan Outline
Tutorial and self-paced activity in outline form.
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