With apologies, this is a standard answer to the question we get so often: “do you have XYZ business plan?” Our business plan collection includes more than 500 business plans now, so no one person knows all of them that well. We have a team of editors involved.
We don’t know from your question [...]

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Our 500+ sample business plans are presented as examples only. They are to give you an idea of what a business plan covers. They include more than 100 plans that are available free online with complete text, tables, and charts, at www.bplans.com.
Most of these plans are for real companies that were funded or [...]

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Where do you enter the loan to buy the business, that gets immediately paid to the old owner. I am trying to show the principle repayment and interest costs in my plan.
Putting it in the long term loan, it shows as being in the company and the interst was not enough for the first year [...]

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How do I create a chart in Excel that I can then import into Business Plan Pro?
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Thanks for asking a question whose answer will be useful to others as well.
Business Plan Pro can import graphic files using the text editor and either the Import menu on the top menu line or the graphic icon in [...]

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Should I pay a fee to apply for grants given by the government? And/or is it free to apply for grants, minority/women grants in particular.
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Some grants require some administrative fees, but these are usually relatively small fees. The government isn’t just one single entity, it is lots of different federal, state, and local agencies, [...]

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What does an investor look for in a return on their money? This type of investment is for land in the mountains of Georgia along with building a cabin on it to sell.
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Put yourself in the investor’s place. What would you want if you invested. Imagine you have extra money that you can [...]

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How can I determine the market penetration opportunity available in a category?
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The key word in this question is opportunity, which makes this a critical question, for which there are no formulas, no magic answers. Market penetration is one thing, but market penetration opportunity is a far more important and deeper concept.
Determining market penetration is conceptually [...]

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There are two partners. One partner has invested a large amount of cash. The other has invested strictly time, which if fairly valued would also be a large amount of cash.
Is it reasonable, or acceptable to indicate the value of time invested in the form of a cash value as a “Startup Expense” Investment?
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This issue [...]

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1. How can I incorporate the return to equity investors into my business plan?
2. How can I incorporate debt service into my business plan?
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I see you are using Business Plan Pro, so I’ll answer your questions with specifics regarding that software.

Answering the easier question first, your debt service is the sum of interest [...]

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I am working on a business plan with four other people and we need to know where we can go to find prices on things such as land, construction, insurance, etc. We are doing a major project for our business major at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. We are looking to open [...]