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How to Make a Business Plan

When you have a business idea, develop a business plan is absolutely essential. But not just to present the project to potential investors, but also because thiswriting forces the entrepreneur to make a very thorough study of his idea: to analyze the market and competition, identifying strengths and weaknesses of your product or service, financial feasibilitystudy, etc..

Inevitably, therefore, develop the business plan is equivalent to the entrepreneur to make a 'master' of your idea to acquire a knowledge that will be useful to develop it.
Where to FindInformation

Entrepreneurs can find manuals on how to develop a business plan in many public bodies, including the Directorate General of SME Policy (Ministry of Economy) and some municipalities andregional governments especially committed to the promotion of entrepreneurship.

For this article has been taken as a reference manual business plan contest organizers Emprenedors 2002, promoted bythe Generalitat de Catalunya, made available to participants. A practical and flexible document that breaks down the key chapters should include any Business Plan.
The business plan, step by stepThe Business Plan must be efficient, orderly, understandable, brief and easy to read. To achieve this you can follow some basic rules:

- Avoid as far as possible the technical jargon difficult tounderstand.
- Provide figures and tables easy to understand.
- Structure the content clearly.
- Do not extend beyond about 20 pages.
- Use a generous typeface, but without exaggeration.

Allwithout leaving out, though, not one of the key data that the investor has to know. They are:

- Nature of the project.
- Product or service.
- Market.
- Strategy development.
- Organization.
-Economic aspects.

Let's see what you have to explain each of these points.

• Nature of project:

The main protagonists of this chapter are the product or service that is based on the company...