Product Description: Named by Inc. and Forbes magazines as one of the top ten essential books for small business, this fully revised and updated fourth edition of The Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies is a complete, step-by-step guide to researching and writing a fool-proof, perfectly formatted, knock-'em-dead business plan.
Required reading at America's top business schools, it's been called "the entrepreneur's bible," having helped hundreds of thousands of successful business people get the funding they need to launch their businesses.
With a foreword by legendary venture capitalist Eugene Kleiner, The Successful Business Plan is packed with insider tips and insightful advice on writing and formatting a business plan that will stand out from the crowd.
Book features:
99 worksheets to help you get started quickly, taking you through every critical section of a successful business plan
Sample business plan offering guidance on length, style, formatting and language
The Abrams Method of Flow-Through Financials, which makes easy work of number crunching — even if you're a numbers novice
Special chapters addressing issues of concern for service, manufacturing, retail, and Internet companies
Added help for teams and students preparing business plans for classes or competitions
Nearly 200 real-life insider secrets from top venture capitalists and successful CEOs – learn what truly impresses funders
New chapter on starting a business in a challenging economy
Key book to prepare a good structured business plan This book is very good considering its objectiveness, organization, and it is important reference to beginners and people that have to review your procedures to prepare your own business plan or at your work, improving your capabilities in the company you work for.
Good resource and reference guide I used this book during my MBA studies to write a business plan for an entrepreneurship course. It provides a framework for writing a plan and shows you how to cover all the key bases, from marketing to operations to financials.
The worksheets and sample plans help you build your business plan, step-by-step. By the end of the book you'll feel confident you've created a cohesive, logical business plan.
Good book I research maybe 5 options and this was the best one in my opinion. It would be even better if it would have the first chapter of the Six Weeks Start Up by the same writer (don't bye it if you have bought the Business Plan one). Covers all the main points... tumbs up!
The Successful Business Plan by Rhonda Abrams I really enjoyed this book. I actually used this book in my MBA capstone course in combination with a well, written sample business plan and it looks as if they followed the same book but it gave me so many ideas to write my part of the entire business plan which was the marketing part. I recommend this book to anyone needing help writing a business plan. It really lays all the information out for easy understanding.
The secret to success is this book This book was purchase to provide further guidance in writing my business plan. It provides excellent examples. It also is filled with detailed worksheet that help track the cash flow in your business. It is easy to read, which makes it simple to understand the basic concepts. The author has shown that she took her time to research business plans, and it definitely shows in tiis detailed work. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in running there own business or who are starting to work on a business proposal. This book will allows anyone to fine tune there ideas to see if it is feasible.
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