Top Business Plan Mistakes
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Partnerships are incredibly common--and incredibly hard to sustain. Here's how to set up a partnership that is equitable, efficient, and mutually rewarding. Read more
How to Write the Financial Section of a Business Plan
An outline of your company's growth strategy is essential to a business plan, but it just isn't complete without the numbers to back it up. Here's some advic... Read more
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Writing a business plan is often a crucial first step to getting your start-up off the ground. But a plan riddled with errors? It can sink you. View slideshow
Why a CEO Needs to Have a Plan B
For nearly three decades, in good times and bad, Jack Stack has run his company, SRC, as though disaster could strike at any moment. Now, with the economy cr... Read more
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Most Entrepreneurs Start with Limited Funds, No Business Plan
A new survey shows three out of four businesses are funded from personal savings. Read more
How to Structure a Business Plan
How to write a business plan that will help you obtain financing, arrange strategic alliances, attract key employees, and boost your confidence. Read more
Creating Your Business Plan
How to create an operational document your business can live by. Read more
What the Judges Look for...
What's going to put your business plan in the winner's circle? Here's what the judges look for when choosing winning business plans. Read more
Getting an Idea to Market
To succeed at her new venture, an entrepreneur realized she needed more than money and a great idea. She needed the timing of the market as well. Here she of... Read more
Making Your Financials Add Up
No business plan is complete until it contains a set of financial projections that are not only inspiring but also logical and defensible. Read more
The Bulletproof Business Plan
How to bulletproof your business plan during a slumping economy. Read more
How many years should my financial projections cover for a new business?
According to Writing a Business Plan mentor Rhonda Abrams, smart investors know that projections can be unreliable. But creating financial projections will s... Read more
Executive Summary as a Guiding Light
A good executive summary is hard to write. It should present your entire business plan in miniature. Read more
Tackling Technology in Your Business Plan
A business plan consists of more than what you'll be doing; it also needs to outline the technology you plan to use to accomplish those goals. Writing a Busi... Read more
How can I make financial projections in my business plan when I have no solid numbers?
Writing a Business Plan mentor Rhonda Abrams offers advice on coming up with financial numbers for your plan when you don't think there are any to work with. Read more
Where to Start for Business Plan Smarts
A business plan book originally written in 1989 is still one of the best places to start for step-by-step instruction. Read more
Capital Training
Looking for funding? High-tech venture capitalists recommend keeping your business plan short, perfecting your "elevator pitch," and networking extensively. Read more
Pick the Target Audience, Then Tailor Your Plan
It's a prime rule of business plan writing: focus, focus, focus. Author David Gumpert in "How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan" offers strategies ... Read more
The Fine Art of Writing a Business Plan
Recommended readings from the Inc. archives to help you compose a winning plan. Read more
Simple Plan for Start-Ups
Before you do anything else, you need a simple business plan. Here's a checklist to get you going. Read more
Plan for Success
Want to create a winning business plan? First, check out inc.com's latest guide to online resources that can help. Read more
A Plan for All Seasons
In an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the book "How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan," learn how a carefully crafted business plan can be an important s... Read more
Making It All Add Up: The Financial Section of a Business Plan
In Chapter 9 of the book "How to Really Create a Successful Business Plan," author David E. Gumpert suggests that the financial section of a business plan is... Read more
The Best Business Plan on the Planet
Go behind the scenes with one of the judges at Moot Corp., a world-renowned business-plan contest hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. Read more
Who Can Help Out with a Business Plan?
Without a credible business plan, an entrepreneur has little hope of landing capital. Here's what investors will want to see in your plan, and where you can ... Read more
The Just-Right Business Plan
Don't wring your hands because you're running a company without a business plan. Different stages of growth require different levels of planning. One entrepr... Read more
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A look at how company builders are working hard to acquire some foresight into the economy. Read more
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Most business plans produced each year are prepared by operating elements of corporations. These plans contribute to a broader corporate strategic or long-ra... Read more
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