Tag Archives: business plan
Business Plan 101: In the Beginning
In the beginning your business plan needs to knock the socks off the reader in the very first few pages. These pages are critical to the delivery of the rest of the plan. So what goes into these pages you ask? Lets break them down for you to be used for future reference.
Index page
Learn how [...]
The Social Entrepreneur: Making yourself heard
Entrepreneurs need to embrace to idea of making themselves heard. If you’re not willing to tell the world about your product, then they may never hear about you.
Look into starting a blog that will attract your target market. You can do this by blogging about topics that surround your industry. Make sure to add your [...]
Business Plan 101: Layout
Before we tackle the actual content of a business plan, let’s chat briefly about the layout and presentation. There is nothing more off putting than a business plan that has been created using Word Art. Please, never try to beef up a crappy document with curved words with shadows on the cover. My rule is [...]
Business Plan 101: Author
Who should write your business plan? The big question! This is going to offend some of you and actually, I am not sure that I care. I have seen enough outsourced business plans to understand that when the business owner is not the author they are never the owner of the idea. If you, the [...]
Using Social Media Technology to start your business
2010 was the year I started my business. I didn’t have many business contacts and I had even less capital.
Being in the social media world, I decided to put social media to the test and see if it really could launch my business.
The great news is that it did. I can say that in 2010, [...]
Business Plan 101
Ever since Fred wrote the article “Creating the perfect Business Plan” on Ideate back in June 2008 we have had comments galore and discussions late into the night about this vey topic. It was this very article that got me thinking about plans and business strategy to the point that I have become an enthusiastic [...]
“How to draft a recycling business plan? Is recycling business sustainable and profitable?”
This question came to us at Ideate and we thought it worthy of a response. Not because it is a hot topic or the next best thing, but because it is typical of the many questions and queries we get: how do we start a business, and is it profitable?
Bruce Wade is a survivor of [...]
Business Development – Questions to ask 2
The second question to ask about a business is: Is this business idea Plausible?
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, Bruce now runs the Entrepreneur Incubator; a member based organisation dedicated to serving those in the trenches of business through coaching, mentoring and leadership education. [...]
Business Development – Questions to ask
When any business idea is birthed, often on a napkin, dusted with peanut salt and beer foam, it is wrapped in emotion and hype that needs to be stripped away to forge ahead towards any kind of sustainable future.
Bruce Wade is a survivor of the corporate and NGO world, author, speaker, business owner and entrepreneur, [...]
Aligning Your Business Plan to the VC Requirements
The Entrepreneur Incubator is now able to offer you as the business owner a template for a business plan together with a pitch presentation guide that meets the requirements for both banks and Venture Capital firms. Adding to this information we are compiling a list of all the VC and Angel businesses who [...]
