A 5-year business plan will help you manage your company and seek loans or investment money. This term is familiar to most commercial loan officers and small business investors. Learning how to write ...

A business plan for a sole proprietorship is just like any other business plan. The main difference in business plans, in general, is the purpose. If you are writing a plan to organize your existing ...

Absolutely! says David F. McShea, partner at law firm Perkins Coie. Absolutely not! says Will Hsu, co-founder of the LA-based start-up accelerator MuckerLab, and an entrepreneur in his own right. Here ...

There are two main types of business plans: the more common traditional business plan and the less common lean startup business plan. A traditional business plan is best for gaining funding and ...

Most business plans are written for an audience. The most common audience is investors and lenders. Another audience might be your employees. Make sure you write your plan with your key audience in ...

It’s drilled into the head of every business school graduate and entrepreneur: Write your own business plan. Academia pushes it on students. VCs, banks and more expect it. Often, investors won’t touch ...

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