Things to Consider When Writing a Business Plan for a Start-up
By: Shivani Sharma
Tags: Startup, Business Plan, Freelancers, Business

Starting a new business comes with a dilemma. Being prepared for those hassles as well as trying to get ahead of them can greatly diminish the brunt they have on your business. One important step in preparing for the threats your startup may face is writing a solid business plan. The technicalities, as well as standard information that go into a business plan, are easy enough to figure out, but there are other more compendium things to consider before you put pen to paper.

Make sure you follow these steps prior to drafting your business plan:

1. Resolve your Aim

Having a plan to make a profit is important, but it’s far from the only thing that matters when you start a business. Business plans encourage entrepreneurs to focus on what they are going to do. This overlooks two more important questions, ‘why’, why it exists as well as why employees would want to get out of bed in the morning, as well as ‘how’, the values of the business, what it stands for, how people representing the business will behave.

Entrepreneurs should take time to identify as well as enunciate their business’s core values as well as purpose, which will serve as your organization’s compass for decision making at all levels. This “compass” can be discovered by having an honest, open conversation with your team.

One thing that a team might want to do is engage in a formal assessment process — looking at custom, acceptance, attitude, as well as competence so that they are working from a clear starting point as well as have a framework for discussion about working styles, strengths, as well as individual as well as collective blind spots.

2. Frame up your Perception

The key to business triumph is having a clear vision of what you want to accomplish as a company. But before you write a business plan, you should come up with three to five key strategies that will enable you to achieve that vision. “Sometimes, less is more”. It’s far better to do three things very well versus 10 things not so well. The first sentence of the mission statement should be why you’re in business.

After you fully understand the why then you need to define ‘what’ you are going to do as well as ‘how’ you’re going to do it. The third, as well as a final part of the mission statement, should be the ‘who’ you want as customers as well as how you are going to treat them. From the mission statement, it is an easy transition to develop your “value proposition” statement that defines what makes you unique in the marketplace as well as how you intend to differentiate as well as position your business.

3. Interpret your business model

A good financial model should include many of the details you would put in your formal business plan. For example, hiring, pricing, sales, cost of acquisition, expenses, as well as growth. As with a business plan, your model should be revisited as well as updated as the realities of your business start to unfold.

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