Includes CD-ROM.
This book covers how to put a business plan to work! It includes business plans for every stage (and every type) of business: e-business, sole proprietorships, small businesses, service companies, high-tech companies, non-profit companies, even business plans for middle managers and restructuring a company.
The book emphasises methods for obtaining funding and sources to tap for capital and explains how to formulate business plans according to the planned business model bricks-and-mortar vs e-business. Includes updated terminology and jargon from the business planning and venture capital industries.
The bonus CD-ROM contains surveys that help access personal entrepreneurial acumen and the strength of proposed business ideas; several charts, grids and worksheets that map the progress of the business plan from inception to action; useful publications and forms, and much more.