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Business Plans that Work: A Guide for Small Business
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Turn your great idea into BIG PROFITS with a powerful, persuasive business plan!

With any endeavor, good planning is the key to good resultsespecially in the launch of a new business or product. Business Plans That Work gives you an easy-to-follow template for conceptualizing, writing, focusing, and revising a business plan that converts your business idea into financial profit.

A virtual blueprint for entrepreneurial success, this new edition of the popular entrepreneurs guide provides all the tools you need to communicate the value of your idea to investors and attract key talent, and create a plan you can turn to throughout the entire process of starting and running a business. Youll learn how to:

Determine what to include in each plan, why, and for whom
Secure the capital you need to get the project off the ground
Assess opportunities and risks involved in your project
Avoid common pitfalls that cost money, time, and effort

With Business Plans That Work, you have everything you need to create winning strategies for development, sales, marketing, operations, distribution, and everything else successful ventures are founded on.

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BUSINESS

PLANS THAT

WORK

A GUIDE

FOR SMALL

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A GUIDE

FOR SMALL

BUSINE SS

SECOND EDITION

B USINESS

PLANS THA T

WORK

ANDREW ZACHARAKIS

STEPHEN SPINELLI

JEFFRY A. TIMMONS

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Contents

Preface vii

1 Entrepreneurs Create the Future 1

2 Before You Start Planning, Ask the Right Questions 25

3 Getting Started 43

4 Industry: Zoom Lens on Opportunity 57

5 Company and Product Description: Selling Your Vision 79

6 Marketing Plan: Reaching the Customer 89

7 Operations and Development: Execution 103

8 Team: The Key to Success 119

9 The Critical Risks and Offering Plan Sections 127

10 Financial Plan: Telling Your Story in Numbers 137

11 Conclusion 157

Appendix 1: Quick Screen Exercise 169

Appendix 2: Business Planning Guide Exercise 173

Appendix 3: Sample Presentation 179

Index 187

About the Author 197

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Preface

We have worked with over a thousand students of entrepreneurship,

invested in a score of companies, and created a dozen start-ups. Weve

worked in, consulted for, and advised businesses across several continents

and innumerable industries. Our experiences have brought us a special

appreciation of the value of business planning.

Some people will argue that writing a business plan is time consum-

ing and obsolete the minute it emerges from the printer. They miss the

point. The process of creating the plan is very important. The business

plan isnt just a tool to raise capital; it is a process that helps entrepreneurs

gain deep knowledge about their ideas. The discipline that the planning

process provides helps you assess the nature of the opportunity and cre-

ates a greater ability to shape a business model to exploit it.

Will your business model change once you start the business? Prob-

ably. Going through the business planning process will result in modi-

cations even before you launch the business. But, we guarantee that the

act of business planning will save you countless hours and sums of money

in false starts simply because it will help you anticipate the resources

required and the pitfalls that may arise. Even though business planning

cant help you anticipate every potential problem, the deep learning will

more than offset the cost of writing the plan.

Book Design

This book will illustrate a proven and innovative approach to writing a

business plan. Each chapter will introduce different components of the

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planning process. Also, each chapter will illustrate the concepts by high-

lighting Lazybones, an actual company that was planned and launched

and is currently operating. The key feature of this section is the comments

in the margins that point out various aspects of the plan that are good

and others that need work. As you progress through the book, you will

become familiar not only with the process but also with the Lazybones

opportunity.

A word of caution: Your business plan will vary from the Lazybones

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