Business Plan Services

We have experience with Angel Investors, Venture Capital and Private Equity investors, and we have developed and reviewed hundreds of business plans over the last 20 years.

We offer two services around Business Plans:

1. Business Plan Development: In this we discuss the business concept and growth plan with you, and create the most professional Business Plan for you. There can be two sub-types here:

(a) Short Form Business Plan: About 10 slides and covers all key questions that an investor would ask, and hence covering the most important points for an investor to make up his mind. This includes a page/slide for Executive Summary, and a page/slide for projected financials. Typical Fee: $250 to $750 (depends on your industry, how much information/analysis you have already got with you, and a few other specifics).

(b) Long Form Business Plan: About 30-40 slides covering everything in detail for investors to make up their mind and also get answers to most of their questions directly from the document. Typical Fee: $2500 to $7500 (depends on your industry, how much information/analysis you have already got with you, and a few other specifics).

Please Note: We always advise you to start with a Short Form Business Plan because that is the right way to build a bigger and more detailed plan.

As Warren Buffet says: “You should be able to express any business plan in one paragraph”. It shows that you can separate the very important points from the other details, and that you respect an investor’s time. You are likely to get a better response rate. And the key points are always these:

Does this venture address an “unmet need”?
Is there enough demand-supply gap in this market?
Can this venture be profitable?
Is this a reliable team?
Are all the major risks covered?

Most bulky business plans have a lot of unnecessary content copied from the Internet, which dilutes their value. So please don’t increase the number of pages in your document just because you are seeing 50 page business plans in the market. Rather, list all the key questions you want to answer, and spend time in refining the answers in the most effective manner through graphs, bullets and hyperlinks to references. Add as many notes as possible to your projections and cover all the major risks to your venture.

2. Business Plan Review: We can usually review and send back with comments for improvement within a week, and sometimes within a day or two, depending on our schedule. The review will help you to highlight the value of your key points in a way the investor would like to see it. If you follow our comments, your business plan will be an attractive document with a much better chance for success. Fee: $100 to $500 (depends on your business plan details)

Sample Business Plan Documents

The Executive Summary is really critical because it will decide whether your plan will be read or not. Here is a Business Plan Executive Summary Sample.

Here is a Business Plan Presentation Template that we have used successfully. You are welcome to use it for your work.

Next Steps: If you are interested in using our help to prepare/improve/review your business plan, please contact us. Thanks.