Thread: School me on business plans...

I'm about to take a big leap on my life and start a company with my buisness partner. We both have no clue as to how to put a business plan together?

Assuming a lot of you guys have your own business's, How did you take the first step into starting a plan?

Jp.

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Put as much down on paper as you can. Don't ever stop putting it down on paper. And be as thorough as you can! It WILL help you in the long run. Also, remember about your bottom line. You must budget accordingly.

Start with a page... an outline of what you want to do it, why (if you say money, you lost), business/market prospects... build from there

Think Yacht Lights (or 2Props) posted this: Startup Document Center

I collected these links a year or so ago:
http://www.growthink.com/businessplanguide.pdf
http://web.mit.edu/e-club/hadzima/pd...iness-plan.pdf
http://www.mastercard.com/us/business/en/pdf/plan.pdf
http://www.chiventures.org/docs/Busi...an/bizplan.pdf

Originally Posted by SSIIICK

Put as much down on paper as you can. Don't ever stop putting it down on paper. And be as thorough as you can! It WILL help you in the long run. Also, remember about your bottom line. You must budget accordingly.

pro tip: unless you absolutely need your partner.... dump him/her like a bad habit.

good luck!

Thanks for all the advise, Day 1 starts today!

Originally Posted by miabullitt

pro tip: unless you absolutely need your partner.... dump him/her like a bad habit.

From experience... YES

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Originally Posted by miabullitt

pro tip: unless you absolutely need your partner.... dump him/her like a bad habit.

good luck!

Haha you beat me to it!! No matter what you think and I hate to say it but it wont work out. I learned the hard way twice! Never again, if I can't do it by myself than I wont do it.