Business Plans

While templates and samples can be helpful, the key to a good plan is making your own argument—for your unique business—as convincingly as you can. Don't be constrained by hewing too closely to what others have done.

Web Resources

Free:

• Businessplans.org
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• Plan Your Business - Write a Business Plan
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• Writing an Effective Business Plan
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• Moot Corp's Guide to Creating Fundable Business Plans
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• Wicked Start
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Articles

• "Evaluating New Venture Opportunities Conversations with Venture Capitalist"

Books & ebooks

• How to Write a Great Business Plan
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Login Required:

• Creating a Business Plan
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Videos

Free:

• The 2008 Entrepreneurship Conference: Business Plan
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Cases & Teaching Notes

For Purchase:

• How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities
• Note on Business Model Analysis for the Entrepreneur
• Business Plan
• Some Thoughts on Business Plans
• Finale (Room for Dessert)

Financing

Web Resources

Free:

• Getting Started - Financial Management
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• Entrepreneur.com
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• Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati: Term Sheet Generator
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Books & ebooks

• Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
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• HOLLIS Catalog
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Articles

Login Required:

• "How Much Money Does Your New Venture Need"

Databases

Login Required:

• Business Source Complete
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Cases & Teaching Notes

For Purchase:

• Note on Acquiring Bank Credit

What Investors Want

Articles

Free:

• "I'm A VC. Here's What I Want to Know"
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• MagPortal(Hot Neuron LLC)
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• "Courting Investors? The Best Management Team Wins"
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Business Plan Samples

Web Resources

Free:

• Rock Center Business Plan Library Rock Center 107
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• The Center for Business Planning has links to several business plans that have won various business plan contests.
• Entrepreneurship - Business Plans
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• Bplans.com
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Tools

Web Resources

Free:

Wall Street Journal MiniPlan