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Business Plan Development: Know your Finances

Strategy Driven

Your marketing plan and SWOT analysis are interesting – but they don’t mean a thing if you don’t have realistic figures on your bottom line. Your financial projections need to include the key figures that business accounts will show. Set up a spreadsheet projecting sales over the first three years.

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Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

It walks you through getting started, marketing, product, competitive analysis, SWOT, and more, with a window below the input fields to show you the plan as you work away at it. It contains 10 broad sections, including market analysis, management and organization, etc., with a one-paragraph explanation of each.

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Is Your Business Sinking? 12 Holes You Need To Plug

Strategy Driven

Startups tend to collapse, and only a minor portion of them manage to stay afloat after a few years. These courageous individuals manage to anticipate when the next iceberg’s coming and save the Titanic with their careful calculations. Review your finances. Try SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis.

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My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing

Harvard Business Review

To paraphrase from "The Music Man," I am a sadder but definitely a wiser girl after this first encounter with venture financing, as this experience has become a well of lessons from which I draw daily in my personal and professional life. As we moved from idea to execution, I asked another friend to take a key role in the project.