One of the most important tasks when
starting a small business occurs right at
the outset: giving the enterprise a name.
The name chosen will come to symbolize the
entire business and can be an early sign
of a company's character.
Here you will find are the actual Business Plans used by
CEOs and entrepreneurs. There are two full-length business plans for:
PART I.
Marrone Enterprises - a restaurant/pub in Worcester,
MA. - Page 1 PART
II. Venture Magazine - a small business magazine, which
competed with Inc. magazine for a dozen years before it went out of
business. - Page 31
And a partial business plans for a small
business portal:
The above business plans are not offered as an
example of good or bad business plans. Rather they are offered to give you a
wide variety of types of actual plans to help you to synthesis ideas in
developing your own business plan. The objective is to show diverse plans, each
with a different emphasis, to allow you to develop your own unique approach to
preparing and writing a business plan.
SAMPLE BUSINESS PLAN:
LASER, INC. (AN EMPLOYEE SPIN-OUT)
This is the original business plan used by Al Battista and Bill Shiner
to purchase the Laser Division of American Optical in Sturbridge, MA.
This big company was divesting a division and the operating people bonded
together to buy it.
After five years of operations it was sold to Coherent, Inc. in Palo
Alto, CA.
It is now the Laser Division of Coherent on the East Coast in the same
Sturbridge location with several hundred employees. The financials are
not included in the plan.
For the full-length version of this checklist,
contact .
How About You?:
Are you the kind of person who can get a business
started and make it go? Think about why you want to own your own business. Do you want to badly
enough to keep you working long hours without knowing how much money you
will end up with? Have you worked in a business like the one you want to start?
Have you worked for someone else as a foreman or manager?
Have you had any business training in school? Have you saved any money?
How about the money? Do you know how much money you will need to get your
business started? Have you counted up how much money of your own you can put into the business?
Do you know how much credit you can get from your suppliers -- the people
you will buy from? Do you know where you can borrow the rest of the money you need to start
your business? Have you figured out what net income per year you expect to get from your
business? Count your salary and your profit and the money you put into
the business. Can you live on less than this so that you can use some of it to help
your business grow? Have you talked to a banker about your plans?
How about a partner? If you need a partner with money or know-how that
you don't have, do you know someone who will fit -- someone you can get
along with? Do you know the good and bad points about going it alone, having a partner,
and incorporating your business? Have you talked to a lawyer about it?
How about your customers --
Do most businesses in your community (industry) seem
to be doing well? Have you tried to find out whether stores like the one you want to open
are doing well in your community and in the rest of the country?
Do you know what kind of people will want to buy what you plan to sell?
Do people like that live in the area where you want to open your store?
Do they need a store like yours? If not, have you thought about opening a different kind of store or going
to another neighborhood?
10 TIPS FOR WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN
- BY JOSEPH MANCUSO
CLICK
HERE to hear
the talk, "10 TIPS FOR WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN" by
Joseph Mancuso. (Requires
RealPlayer)
If
you don't have RealPlayer installed on your computer.
You can download it by clicking the link below.
RealPlayer
Also
check out "HOW TO GET A BUSINESS LOAN" based on the book,
"HOW TO WRITE A WINNING BUSINESS PLAN" as
well as other talks in our AUDIO
TALKS section.
- Nobody
ever said to me, "Oh, Goody! Goody! I have to write a business plan!"
Rather they call and ask "Can you help me, I've got to write
a business plan today for a presentation tomorrow?" - Joe Mancuso
- -
My material on the subject of preparing business plans has
been the most widely used since the late 1970's. So you just might want
to know what I say because it has become a benchmark for both lenders &
investors. - Joseph R. Mancuso
HOW TO WRITE A WINNING BUSINESS PLAN. Best-selling book, which
contains 3 full-length actual business plans of Venture Magazine,
Storage Technology and Shopsmith. 344 pages [simon & schuster] $15.00.
The ninety-minute audiocassette is $15.00 and
both together are $25.00.
Can you tell me where your banker
went to school? Can you tell me your banker's spouse's
first name? Can you tell me your banker's birthday?
Are you successful in locating a good
bank and a great banker?
The answers to these questions and many
more can be found in the articles in this section.
01.
It's technically impossible to give a banker too much
information. 02.
Seek advice: money follows advice. 03.
The only time to raise capital is when you don't need
it. 04. Dress
up for your banker and down for your lawyer. 05.
A quick "No" is better than a long "No".
06. Money flows
only when risk is zero. Fully answer all the negatives.
07. Always pick
a banker, never a bank. 08.
Practice answering the single most important banking question:
How will the bank get its money back?
09. The best
thing to do for your banker is to refer a good depositor. 10.
Bankers hate surprises. There is no such thing as good
news and bad news. There is only good news
and better news.
HOW TO GET
A BUSINESS LOAN
Most entrepreneurs
can borrow money but do they do it in exchange for
the best terms?
This best
selling book and tape series was a Fortune Book Club
main selection. Mancuso not only tells you how
to borrow, better, he tells you how to avoid personally
guaranteeing the corporate debt; and if you have already
guaranteed it, he will tell you how to get off it
(ditto for the spouse). It is invaluable negotiating
advice and its legal. The section on securing Small Business
Administration (SBA) funding is also priceless.
CLICK
HERE to hear
the talk, "HOW TO GET A BUSINESS LOAN"
by Joseph Mancuso. (Requires
RealPlayer)
If
you don't have RealPlayer installed on your computer.
You can download it by following the link below.
Today, franchisers realize that a franchisee that fails costs them
far more in time, money and reputation than
the quick infusion of up-front money is ever worth. They know what
they want when it comes to franchisees,
and determine who does ( or doesn't) have these traits, a growing
number of franchisers have turned
to some form of testing.
CLICK
HERE to go to the quiz.
After you've finished, close the window and click
the link below.
While
there is no single entrepreneurial archetype,
there are certain character traits that indicate
an entrepreneurial personality. In this quiz,
developed from a series of questionnaire analyses
performed by the Center for Entrepreneurial
Management, we've concentrated on those indicators.
If you've ever wondered whether
or not you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur,
here's your chance to find out.
CLICK
HERE to go to the quiz.
After you've finished, close the window and click
the link below.
Test your score on this quiz and compare your knowledge
with that of the 310 members of the CEO Club who
scored an average of 175 points
out of a possible 330 points.
CLICK
HERE to go to the quiz.
After you've finished, close the window and click the
link below.
ACHIEVEMENT,
AFFILIATION, AND POWER: The
Entrepreneurial Profile Assessment Exercise... Before
delving into the motivational profile of the
entrepreneur, we believe each one of you should
answer the following questions as objectively
as possible, in order to best understand your
own motivations in the world of entrepreneurship.
CLICK
HERE to go to the questionnaire.
After you've finished, close the window and click the
link below.
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