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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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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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Hello, I am planning to open a restaurant and am looking to apply for loan from banks or SBA. PLease help me to find an sample loan proposal for restaurant.
Thank you in advance for your time and help
Name withheld
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A bank loan or loan SBA proposal is the same thing, because the SBA doesn’t make loans [...]

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I am contemplating the idea of selling my own homemade beef jerky on the Internet, but I have reservations about food safety regulations that prohibit me from doing so. It is a very open ended question: What are the key things I need to look for in this start up?
The reasons I have for this [...]

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I have the responsibility of kick-starting our new office. I have been given a fairly rough brief and i was wondering with my new staff, what “roles” I can give them. I have managed a unit before, but never created jobs. Apart from myself I’ll be needing about six staff to run this travel [...]

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Recently my department store is going down hill. We are losing medium- and high-class customers.
How can I bring back my medium-class customer?
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The fact of the matter is this is not really a complicated issue. Of course, being on the outside looking in, it is probably easier for me than you to make my simple [...]

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I am a recent graduate from Mt. Ida college with a degree in technical electricity. When I obtained my electrician’s license I started thinking about starting my own business. Do you have information about starting a trade-based business?
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First thing, I hope it’s obvious, we aren’t experts in a lot of different specific businesses. We can [...]

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The town in which I live (population about 10,000) currently has only one bakery.
About a year ago there were three in town. One being one my husband’s grandfather had established about 50 years ago and sold to someone outside the family about 20 years ago.
This had been the most successful bakery in town until they [...]

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I am in charge of developing a call center for the Hilton Head Island area. It is mainly a tourist spot, I will be creating packages such as golf and accomodations packages.
Could you give me advise as the information I must obtain to do this? I just don’t want to leave anything out.
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I would develop [...]