A business plan is a formal statement of a set of business goals, the reasons why they are believed attainable, and the plan for reaching those goals. It may also contain background information about the organization or team attempting to reach those goals.
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Starting a review/rating website - for a social cause [closed]
After a lot of brainstorming I have come with an idea of setting up a review website. I know this idea is not new but I want to do this to help people, earning money is secondary
Now the main problem ...
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Planning for an Acquisition Strategy
I am a software developer half-way through the design and prototyping of what I believe will be a very successful new software product.
Soon I will begin development, and am currently planning on ...
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Basic Hosting Cost Info (non-technical) reworded [closed]
I just recently came across this site and it seems perfect for the types of questions I have and advice I will be needing to help make my business idea come to life and become successful.
My ...
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How relevant is business plan/business model before starting up?
I have worked with some startups, and heard people saying,
they have bla...bla...bla business plan that is way better than their competitor, and for sucess you must have a good business model
I ...
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Entrepreneur In-Waiting, valuing a start up business
After Years of having great business ideas and insight into the betting industry I have decided to bite the bullet and go ahead and start up my own business E-Commerce Business.
I have a number of ...
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Importance of a balance sheet in startup business plans?
I'm building a business and financial plan for a new startup. A financial advisor mentioned to me that a balance sheet for a startup is not mandatory as (in his words): "it is more important from the ...
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Classical Business Plan vs Pitch Deck
I have recently read the book "Hit the Deck" by David Ronick, which suggests not to write a classical business plan and instead start with the pitch deck.
This is based on the argument that writing ...
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How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
How to prevent misuse of my advertising strategy by my competitor?
I want to run an offer with an unique strategy, I however, feel that someone will misuse my strategy and would come with my ...
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How should I forecast numbers in the business plan?
After searching and referencing many types of business plans I am trying to figure out how to forecast my competitors profits to demonstrate the potential profit for the company. However, I am going ...
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Is there a method for creating achievable financial forecasts?
Is there a method or set of methods for writing the financial forecasts and profit loss statements for the next two years of business when you have never actually traded?
These documents are often ...
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Best way to find USA or Canadian company which wants to outsource their projects? [closed]
We are a team which has accumulated a great deal of finished projects (close to 100) in the last 2 years, and yet we were unable to find a good and serious company from the USA or Canada which could ...
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Identify the different points of view that an investor will have for a new business
I am currently trying to create from scratch a new business. Is a high cost start business and I dont have the necessary funds, only the information of how to do it, that means from the customers and ...
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Expat looking to create a Tech Startup
I am considering starting a Tech focused startup. I am married to a German and currently live in Germany but I am a US citizen. I am wondering where is the best place to register a new company, if ...
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What is a roll-out plan?
What is a roll-out plan? I tried searching on Google, but without much success. I found http://www.project-open.org/en/tutorial_rollout_plan, but I still don't understand what a roll-out plan is for a ...
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Business Entity for Partnership question, or Unincorporated Business?
I'm planning on registering for a reseller's permit and it's telling me to register for a business entity. Currently I have a friend who wants to start something with me. Is it a good idea to do the ...
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Do people consider gamification a feature, business concept, or strategy?
I took a course on gamification it cleared a lot of thing up but I'm still confuse. A gamified app or website has to be build from ground up through the lens of a game designer. So, I think is a major ...
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Projecting Sales for Web Dev Business Plan
I am putting together a business plan for my Web Development startup.
Cost of materials, marketing, etc. are the easy (fixed or one-time cost) parts - but I am trying to figure out how to create a ...
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How to confirm Mobile App Idea? [closed]
I've created a few apps before but most have had little to mild success. For my new app, I want to confirm that it's indeed useful and people would use it. Kind of a market verification step.
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What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, just a month before renewal?
What are the pros and cons of having a business model - snatching other businesses existing customers, especially a month or two before they renew with them?
Is there any business term for what I ...
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How to find companies to join Coupon Code Sites?
I am thinking of starting a new coupon code website. I was just curious about finding companies who wanna open a store and submit coupons on my website. For Example if you see sites like Retail Me Not ...
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Do startups generally have a specific road map in place?
This question may not belong here, for that I apologize in advance.
I work with my father at his small company that he started. About 5 years ago is when he moved into his first physical location. We ...
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Is it that way too early to start a business?
I have been sharing my thoughts for getting into some business, with some of my friends & colleagues, but all I get from them is 'Disappointment' & advice like "It's too early for you to do a ...
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Partnering with Developer, is it a good idea? [duplicate]
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Forming a new software startup, how do I allocate ownership fairly?
I am planning to do an online business with a web developer. In the meantime, I own a site which is ...
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How to Research and Determine Total Available Market (TAM) and Serviceable Available Market (SAM)
I'm working on the executive summary for my website idea and need to figure out the total market capitalization for the this industry.
For example, if all the yearly advertising (and other) revenue ...
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How could I validate a product that saves large SaaS biz money on bandwith?
My business idea deals with compressing the traffic coming out of web apps to the client. I can show the bandwidth differences with and without my software.
How do I know validate if companies will ...
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How do I estimate the cost of utilities for a 2500 sqft office?
I'm putting together a business plan for a startup, and I need to provide an estimate for utility costs. For my plan, this is an office of 12 employees with an average of 2 CPU's per workstation. ...
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What type of businesses should not be ventured in a poor country where labor is cheap?
In developed countries, people are generally very busy and somewhat solvent. So, someone can start a company that produces, for example, packed-sandwiches. But, in a poor country, people are not ...
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Approaching Angels by E-Mail - How much information should I expose?
I consider contacting a few potential angel investors through E-mail, for my yet to be founded startup.
My Executive Summary is ready to be sent, but I'm wondering if its safe to send it right away, ...
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Starting to write a business plan before becoming a company
I'm starting to write a business plan for a possible future startup.
We're still not a company and we're pretty much in garage-mode still holding to our day jobs.
I was looking at example business ...
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Amortizing a an asset purchase
I'm writing a business plan. In the first year of operation I'm spending a big amount on machines. This skewed my P&L because I'm paying them in installments. Do I amortize them in my business ...
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How to determine the business potential of an idea?
I am an IT engineer, I am familiar with programming and website development (not a complete expert though), I am also good with servers, OS, security and networking etc (whole 9 yards of IT).
What I ...
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What sort of business type is a video game company? Manufacturing?
I am a college student and I am supposed to be creating a business plan for a school project. I decided to create a faux video game company in order to satisfy the criteria of the project, but I've ...
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Do I really need a One Page Business Plan?
I've already written a full business plan, but what is the purpose of a "one page business plan?" What's the difference between it and an executive summary?
Do I really need one?
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Business Plan question on owner equity
This is my first business so excuse me. I'm establishing a salary for myself as an employee but suppose I wanted a percentage of sold goods also. Should that be included in the budget against sales or ...
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Using Dubai as a tax haven - US nationals
My friend approached me with a business idea of selling a service to allow US business owners to incorporate in Dubai in order to avoid taxes. She resides in Dubai and owns a business there, and she ...
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Seek advices: Raise Money or not?
I've $100,000 from my personal money for a new company. I was thinking about going to Austin, TX, as I've heard Silicon Valley is more to raise money than to actually develop apps. Viewing all the ...
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How to estimate revenues with several business model options?
How would you estimate the revenues on a business plan if you have several possible business models (i.g. Freemium and/or Advertisement). The revenues could be generated by one or a combination of ...
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Business Plan and Financial Plan
How would I determine my start-up's target market share and translate that into financial forecast on a commission based business model?
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Inventory management
we have a simple spare parts selling business online. At present We store and search parts from stores manually. Which is becoming hard day by day as inventory is growing. The solution I thought is to ...
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Marketing Plan or Business Plan first?
Wouldn't I be more effective doing a marketing plan first - before working on a business plan?
Everybody's working on business plans, and I know they include Market and Marketing information. But I ...
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Advisory Boards: When and How?
I have been operating a small, part-time business for the better part of 4-5 years providing IT consulting, web hosting, and tech support. To top it off, I've been working on a business plan for over ...
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What is a good marketing framework for an internet marketplace application
We are building a web-based application which will provide an advertising outlet and online fulfillment for certain service providers. We are writing our marketing plan and I am wondering if anyone ...
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I have startup in education[forprofit] domain what should I do next?
I have made a start-up, we are a group of 4 members. We are trying to build educational service model in which we provide animated materials, audiobooks, e Learning service to schools. Animation and ...
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How do I make website projections?
I own a website that I've been working on for the last couple years, and I'm now at a point where I need to try and raise money from venture capitalists. I am wondering what the best way to formulate ...
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Publicising the business-plan?
Being a libertarian, I am completely honest with all my business-transactions, business-offerings and partnerships.
From a marketing perspective, would it be beneficial to post my business-plan on ...
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From free to a little fee
I have a few web services on my website.
They are used by major financial institutions.
They are like little calculators specific to some complex math only required in finance.
I want to move from ...
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When a client chooses a lesser subscription in a web app
What happens when a user had a greater subscription plan but chooses to convert to a lesser one?
Of course, the features should be locked/limited, but what happens for example in this case:
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LAN Party : How should I pitch for Sponsorship to big businesses?
We're a LAN Party organizing start-up in India and have organized a few tournaments at the local level before. Now as we plan to move to the next level, i.e., national, we wish to pitch to the bigger ...
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Revenue / user growth projection for UGC-social-startup business plan
I have to write a business plan and I'm stuck on the revenue and business projection part.
We're building a platform that is all about user-generated-content concerning a certain topic. It also has a ...
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Got initial traction, how do I know that it's “enough” to pursue investors?
My webapp is gaining traction, being passed around and written about in various countries around the world (it's nice seeing viral loops in action, I must say :) ).
And because I'm in the file storage ...
