Business Planning, Business Plans, and Venture

Funding Whitepapers

Company Product Offering and Roadmap (8 pgs.): The Company Product Offering and Roadmap whitepaper provides the entrepreneur with a contextual “real-world” example of a company’s product roadmap. Included are multiple contextual, “real-world” examples that are taken from actual business plans. These three product roadmap examples include: • Product Roadmap - Single product offering (1) • Product Roadmap – Multiple Product Offerings (2) This whitepaper provides an overview of a key functional attribute of any business plan, often overlooked by entrepreneurs. Product roadmaps provide investors with some assurance that you have thought through your product development plan, understand the markets, and have a clear picture of the future of your company and its technology, product, or service offerings as they address the inevitable changes in the market.

ISBN: Document 503

Price: $8.95

Strategic Partnerships and Alliances (7 pgs.): For all start-up companies, it is important to identify the appropriate strategic partnerships and alliances with the appropriate technology, product, or service offerings that will enhance your company’s long-term competitive position in the market. The Strategic Partnership and Alliances whitepaper provides the entrepreneur with the following: • Examples of the various types of strategic partnerships and alliances, • The strategy behind the development of a strategic partnership or alliance, and • Strategic partnership and alliance considerations. Finally, this whitepaper provides two contextual “real-world” examples of a start-up company’s strategic partnership and alliances.

ISBN: Document 504

Price: $8.95

Development Costs, Milestone Schedule and Associated Risks (5 pgs.): The development cost, milestone schedule and associated risks portion of the business plan should delineate all aspects of the company’s technology, product, or service development. Significant effort should be taken to ensure that the development costs and the associated milestone schedule are accurate, as well as include and address all aspects of development. Also, one should ensure that milestones provided reflect significant development and delivery points in the technology, product or service offering development. The Development Costs, Milestone Schedule and Associated Risks whitepaper provides the entrepreneur with a contextual “real-world” example of a company’s technology, product or service development costs, milestone schedule and associated risks which answers most, if most, if not all of the questions of a potential third party equity investor.

ISBN: Document 505

Price: $8.95

Development of Complete Financial Pro Format Statements (8 pgs): For your start-up company’s business plan, one must develop and provide third-party equity investors with complete financial pro forma statements, or financial projections that reflect industry standard financial statements, including the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Statement of Cash Flows. This is often a very difficult task for entrepreneurs that have never developed these financial statements before in their life. The Development of Complete Financial Pro Forma Statements whitepaper provides the entrepreneur with sources and the method to develop industry standard financial statements within their SIC code for a given industry. Also included is a contextual “real-world” example of a given company’s Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Statement of Cash Flows. Also, refer to the Generation of Basic Financial Pro Forma Projections whitepaper (#408) for additional information regarding the development of financial pro forma projections.

ISBN: Document 506

Price: $12.95

Management and Organization (4 pgs.): Third-party private equity investors always invest in the management team. It is often said that investors will take an “A Team” and a “B Product” over a “B Team” and an “A Product”. The Management and Organization whitepaper provides the entrepreneur with all of the necessary elements and that are required for the development of the management and organization portion of the business plan. This delineates the background and history of the key executives, provides an overview of the company’s organizational structure, and provides a brief resume of each key executive. These elements should provide sufficient detail in order to provide a “snapshot” of the company for potential investors to assess the company and its management team. Finally, this whitepaper provides a contextual “real-world” example of the Management and Organization and summary resumes from an actual business plan.

ISBN: Document 507

Price: $6.95