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Crafting Your Sales Pitch As daunting as creating your business plan may have seemed, drafting your sales pitch can be equally as challenging. However, by utilizing Biz Plan Review to craft an effective business plan, you possess a trump card in this endeavor. This...
Friends & Family: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly In general, owners of start-ups and early-stage companies wait too long to begin their capital raising efforts and in doing so, put their operations in jeopardy. As with any round of funding, entrepreneurs should...
Implications of Rapidly Evolving Technologies on Business Planning The never-ending waves of technology impact nearly everything we experience, touch, imagine, and produce. In a business context, this progress influences the speed of production, productivity,...
Proper Funding: One Size Does Not Fit All Few aspects of a start-up or early-stage company are as critical to future success as access to capital. While the money is green regardless where it comes from, the type of investor you ultimately connect with can drastically...
A Closer Look at the Differences between Private Equity and Venture Capital In the world of start-ups and early stage companies, few labels or terms are as confused and improperly assigned as Private Equity (PE) and Venture Capital (VC). Many business owners and...
Branding Power Many start-ups and ventures begin with the same vision: the desire to create a meaningful brand that provides a level of comfort with existing patrons and has the power to attract new customers. For those that are successful, a brand can evolve into a...
Dealing with No, Getting to Yes Few words in the English language express finality like “no.” Yet, if you intend to chase your dreams, live the life an entrepreneur, and get your business idea funded, it is likely a response you will hear more than a few times. In our...
Identifying and Responding to Business Risks One of the more challenging components of a business plan is creating the section focused on risk factors. This segment generates the most questions from plan authors, creates more uncertainty, and is the one that tends to...
A Plan that Works and Evolves With You Similar to how your personal resume reflects your professional evolution, your business plan should serve as your organization’s resume. It should capture your latest ideas and forecasts, while expressing why your organization...
How Financial Markets Impact Your Small Business We see it nearly every day in the financial press and on the financial news channels, the U.S. economy seems stuck in neutral. The credit crisis of 2008/2009 and the subsequent Great Recession disrupted capital flows so...
When is the Best Time to Seek Funding? If there is anyone who can identify the exact moment (day and hour) a company should seek funding to optimize terms, they should be considered for a spot on Mount Rushmore or have a bust displayed in the Smithsonian Institute....
Just What Are Investors Looking For Anyway? So much time is devoted to coaching business plan writers on what NOT to do (reference Common Reasons Business Plans Get Rejected), we thought it would be helpful to allocate a few paragraphs to some of the aspects that...
Common Reasons Business Plans Get Rejected Believe it or not, business plans often get rejected or passed over for some of the most basic reasons. Experience tells us that many of these causes are avoidable, but some are not. Owners and plan writers often fail to...
The Art and Science of Financial Modeling Few aspects of a business plan disrupt the quest to raise capital more than a shoddy financial presentation. The financial component serves as the sole foundation as to why a potential investor invests in a company – to earn a...
The Importance of Executive Summaries While typically just a page or two in length, an effective Executive Summary can take as long to write as the rest of the business plan – and it can be just as important, if not more so. We emphasize the significance of the...
