Your First Business Plan, 5th Ed.: A Simple Question and Answer Format Designed to Help You Write Your Own Plan

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It gives you all you need to build an excelent Business Plan [Posted on 2000-06-28]
I had 3 weeks build a business plan and I had never built one before. I had no idea where to start. - So I bought this book hoping it would help. Not only did it help, It mad possible to finish an excelent business plan in only two weeks, a business plan so professional no one believed it was my first one. - This book will take you step by step from the beginning of your BP to the end of it.

Just get Business Plan Pro, instead [Posted on 2001-03-20]
This book might have helped SOMEONE write a business plan, but it contained only one idea of any interest for me. The authors mention that there is good software on the market to help first-time business plan writers, and they are absolutely correct! The book is a real let-down compared to Business Plan Pro. Your First Business Plan offers over half of its pages as a sample business plan for a company that is: a) NOT a start up (I think a great majority of people writing their FIRST business plan are concerned with start-up information), and

b) NOT a service business (many more businesses provide services than actual products)

So, all in all, this book didn't help me much other than the great advice to go out and buy a good business plan program. So, I pass this advice on to you - free of charge. No reason to pay book prices plus tax and shipping for it!

A section-by-section analysis of how to create a business plan [Posted on 2005-11-05]
Here's a section-by-section analysis of how to create a business plan, from developing a management team and making financial projections and setting goals to promoting a product or service, understanding economic cycles and industry influences, and assessing competition. Add over a hundred 'success questions' and three sample business plans to the discussion and you have a template for success.

My boss threw it out the window [Posted on 2007-09-27]
I am a recent college graduate who now works full time for a startup consultant. I had to write a small business plan and since it was my first time my boss suggested I buy some books. I bought a few. My boss has written many business plans so he knows what to look for. Long story short, he threw it out the window. This book could have made me dumber.

I wrote my first plan with Hazelgrens help [Posted on 2008-01-10]
I love this book. I actually wrote my first business plan using the helpfull and thorough advise given by Hazelgren. I was succesful in raising the capital I needed. It is wasy to understand and impliment. I also read Hazelgrens other book which was very very insightful and helpful as well.
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