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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Design Firm for Entrepreneurs. How can I find my first customers?
Thanks for reading!
I am making plans to start a small consultancy with a focus on design & creative solutions for entrepreneurs and start-up companies… Services like product design, package ...
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Is there any good software that can assist me in writing a business plan? [closed]
My website is about "Crowdsourcing", a platform to make money or outsource your tasks, projects, problems,etc. www.tenxian.com. Is there any good software that can assist me in writing a business ...
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Advice for a online music retailer startup
My father left his job one and a half months ago after deciding that he was sick of having a boss and a day-job :-)
I have a background in Entrepreneurship having started a small business before and ...
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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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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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Whats next step? Am starting a Dropshipping company in India. I'll start with say 200 to 1000 shirts
I believe this will work here in India since there are more and more people willing to earn extra sitting right at their home. This gives a scope for future in dropshipping business. As am being in ...
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We are in primary stage of building a product, should we review our primary prototype or should we bring final product directly in market
We are preparing some visualised education content, we friends have a small debate on what should be our next strategy to built the final product.
Should we make a prototype of our product, and ...
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What are the requirements for raising capital for IPO through private placement?
Well I am trying to raise capital for upcoming IPO's.I would appreciate for the answer of these questions.
1.What are the requirements for raising capital by Private placement memorandum process.
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How to find and target an audience with video games?
People always say before start a business your product has to solve a problem that people have. It seems to me that video games are for entertainment purposes and doesn't this seem a little too broad? ...
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How to sell yourself to investors?
This is a question about methodology for newcomers in the business of lauching firms.
I propose that we list all the things that must be done in order to present a good proposal for potential ...
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Online resource to view successful startup biz plans?
Is there an online resource where first time entrepreneurs can go to peruse startup biz plans that went on to become successful companies? If it does not exist, do you think it is a viable possibility ...
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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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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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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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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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How do you get immediate information about a product launch announcement? [closed]
How to be one of the first few to get the information of any product launch announcement?
How does the release or launch of any upcoming product or service get into the news?
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What Factors to Consider When Projecting Growth?
What factors should I take into account and what assumptions should I make when projecting user-base growth? Also, does anyone know where I can find growth rates for companies like: linkedin, ...
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How to bootstrap a portal?
I want to start a property portal but I dont have huge ad budget to get traffic for listing then how do I get my first listing on the portal?
If people come on my property portal through ads or any ...
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Fair method to divide shares in a new business venture
I recently came up with an idea for some protective equipment for pro athletes. Discussed it with 2 friends (one is an engineer with lots of experience in developing products and the other has some ...
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Business plan & funding advice - Atlanta area
I'm doing most of the work on my business myself but need some advice on my business plan and the best way to approach funding. I'm in the Atlanta area - any suggestions?
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Example of a freemium business plan?
Do you guys have any examples of business outlines, or slide decks so i could get an example for making one for my startup.
my business model is freemium model
thanks¡
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What is Market opportunity in a business plan?
I have to write a Business Plan for a pitch, I wanted to know what should I include in "market opportunity" section - I thought of the something on the lines following--
We operate in --- market, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Question About Findings Ones Epicenter
In the 37signals book rework they mention finding ones Epicenter, the one thing your business must have to survive.
They use the example of a hot dog stand and the guy needing at least the hot dog ...
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For an educational services startup, how do you finalize your business plan and marketing strategy?
We are trying to target the education sector for our business, we are developing the resources with the following features:
Interactive animation for subject content
Examination
Tracking system ...
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Resources for writing an effective business plan [closed]
I am working on a startup / home business / online business, and have some very solid web application development skills. This will be a service based online business and I am looking for some good ...
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How to estimate how many questions have been asked over the web each day?
I am writing a business plan, I need to conduct an estimation. How to estimate how many questions have been asked over the web each day?
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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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Will my relocation greatly affect my business? My business fields are language interpretation, real estate market, travel market, internationanl trade market [closed]
I am building my own business and tentatively I will go into business interpretation, real estate market, travel market, and international trade market. I am trilingual and I like to travel around the ...
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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 ...
