Sample Business Plans by Industry


Elevator Pitch: Green Sherpa

Green Sherpa wants to help organize your finances. But first, it's looking for $5 million of its own. Will investors go for the deal?

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Elevator Pitch: Guitar Affair

Guitar Affair is like Netflix for high-end guitar rentals. Now it wants to raise $150,000 from investors

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Recent Sample Business Plans by Industry Articles

Ivy Exec Helps People Find High-Paying Jobs Online

By April Joyner |  Jul 1, 2009

Now the start-up wants $1.5 million from investors, to help take on Monster and other online job sites  Read story

A Start-up Plans to Make Mines Safer

By April Joyner |  Nov 1, 2008

Can this workplace-safety company raise $1 million in seed capital?  Read story

HedgeStop Wants to be the MySpace of the Financial Community

By Ryan McCarthy |  Feb 1, 2007

Now it needs $2.5 million.  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: This Hip House

By Tahl Raz |  Oct 1, 2002

Can a post-Martha Stewart style magazine raise money amid the worst advertising slump in decades?  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: Blot-Com

By Emily Barker |  Aug 1, 2002

Psychological testing over the Internet: does it allay employers' misgivings or merely make them worse?  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: Bye-Bye, Bogey

By Kate O'Sullivan |  Apr 1, 2002

Geared toward those new to the fairways, here's a national franchise of golf training centers.  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: The Butts Stop Here

By Thea Singer |  Mar 1, 2002

How's this for a breathtaking market? The 35-million Americans who try to stop smoking every year.  Read story

60-Second Business Plan: Good-Bye Doesn't Mean Forever

By Emily Barker |  Jan 1, 2002

When employees leave, they're gone for good, right? Not if Cem Sertoglu has anything top say about it.  Read story

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