How can we print and publish our business plan?

Course: Business Plan

Professor : Dr. Reza Mohamadkazemi

Researcher: Nafiseh Afshar

Email: afi_nafi68@yahoo.com

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*Publishing = Management

• Distributing the plan where all the managers

can see it

• Make commitments

• The plan will be tracked and discussed

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*Final Edit

• Sometimes you don’t see the errors that

others would see because you are too close to

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• Check the numbers

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*Presentation

• Good charts

• Good text formatting

• Bullet points

• Color

• Make the paper whatever quality it takes to

make the plan easy to read!

**Related Documents

• Summary Document (Summary Memo)

• Loan Application Summary

**Small Business Financing Realities

• Business plans do not generate business financing

• Venture capital financing is very rare

• The plan matches the needs of the company

(your company and the kind of money you need)

Banks don’t finance business start-

ups

Business plans don’t sell investors

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*Types of investment and lending available

*Venture Capital

startup

exit

strategy valuation

investment

offering dilution

returns for

investors

The people we call venture capitalists are business people

who are charged with investing other people’s money

A business plan for venture capital is a more sophisticated

business plan

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*“Sort-of” Venture Capital: Angels and Others

*Smaller investors “private placement”

*Groups of investors “doctors and dentists”

*Individual investors “angels”

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*Commercial Banks

• The government prevents banks from

investment in businesses

• Federal regulators want banks to keep money

safe

• Bank loans based on the business owner’s

personal collateral

On how much is in

inventory

Accounts receivable

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*The Small Business Administration (SBA)

*Makes loans to small businesses and even to

start-up businesses.

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*Submitting a Plan to a Bank

*Banks are not allowed to invest in a business plan in an entrepreneurial way

*Critical information:

• Fnancial detail

• More past history

• More information on the personal financial position of the members of the management team

• Fnancial history of the business Owners

**Submitting a Plan to Investors

*Avoid turning to friends and family for investment

• Show how much money you seek and how much ownership

you offer. How much do you think your company is worth?

• List current shareholders and outstanding blocks of stock,

existing options, and potential dilution.

• A strong management team, with a good track record.

• A believable business model.

• Good credible evidence of interesting potential growth

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*Investors Expect a Summary Memo

*Most Investors Want a Presentation

*Use a Business Plan Website

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*Stock Ownership is Simple Math

*You can see the clip about finanancialization :

http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/fina

ncialization/

*And this clip referd to Venture Capital :

http://www.investopedia.com/video/play/ven

ture-capital/

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*Hurdle.”Timothy J. Berry” 2006 .Palo Alto

Software,Inc

*www.nvca.org

*www.investopedia.com