It takes on average 400 hours to create a professional business plan.
We believe that of all the tools that a CEO can bring to the table, the business plan is the most important tool of all of them. At Curing Capital, our network of professionals allows us to streamline your business plan with concise, creative and professional work that will allow you to approach funding sources with a huge level of confidence. Let’s face it; one mistake could be the difference between success and failure, so why risk it. Let us review your work, even if you feel it is of the highest standard.
The Success of your business depends largely upon the decisions you make. A business plan allocates resources and measures the results of your actions, helping you set realistic goals and make decisions. A good business plan is one of the best things you can do to tilt the funder in your direction and ensure success. What your plan will do is to make you THINK through your ideas. You will make fewer errors if your actions are based upon research and analysis.
You will work one on one with our team of industry experts, editors, writers and financial analysts.
You may have asked yourself, why should I spend my time and energy drawing up a business plan? Remember, first and foremost, that lack of planning leaves you poorly equipped to anticipate future decisions and actions you must make or take to run your business SUCCESSFULLY. On the other hand, a sound plan can act as:
- A reality check. The process of putting a business plan together, including the thoughts you put in before you begin to write it, forces you to take an objective, critical, unemotional look at your business project in its entirety.
- A performance tool. Your written business plan is an operating tool which, when properly used, will help you manage your business and work effectively towards its Success. Your business plan will allow you to set realistic goals and objectives for your company’s performance, and, if maintained, will also provide a basis for evaluating and controlling the company’s performance in the future.
- A message sender. The completed business plan communicates your company’s ideas and message to employees, outside directors, lenders, and potential investors. A well thought out business plan provides a way to communicate your operations, goals, and business philosophy to personnel, suppliers and your other business contacts. The process of planning the details of your Company’s future, helps you determine if your vision is realistic, and tells you what you need to do in order to achieve it.
- A motivation tool. The development of your business plan is one of the best and effective ways for you to communicate how well you understand your business now and in the future. Without proper planning, it becomes impossible for you to get all of your employees reading off the same page of the book and generating energy through high levels of team work. It is impossible to motivate people when they do not know where they are going or what they are trying to achieve.
- A management development tool. Putting together your business plan will help you develop as a manager as it get you practice the art of thinking and finding solutions. Helping you think through all the nuissaces of your business, whether its about competitive conditions, promotional opportunities, or situations that are or may be beneficial or harmful to your business will help you become more equipped for the trials and tribulations of running a business.
- A road map. Your business plan, once it is completed, will give you and your employees the roadmap to follow in guiding your business through good and bad times. The preparation of a written business plan is not the end-result of the planning process. The realization of that plan is the ultimate goal. However, the writing of the plan is an important intermediate stage. For an established business it demonstrates that careful consideration has been given to the business’s development, and for a start-up it shows that the entrepreneur has done his or her homework.
Curing Capital will help you to get the best research for your business plan. We have access to Standard & Poor’s and many other online databases.
As some issues in a plan will be more relevant to some businesses than to others, it is important to tailor a plan’s contents to suit individual circumstances. Nonetheless, most plans follow a well-tried and tested structure and general advice on preparing a plan is universally applicable. A business plan should be a realistic view of the expectations and long-term objectives for an established business or new venture. It provides the framework within which it must operate and, ultimately, succeed or fail.
We can also put together a one page teaser with your help.
The teaser will describe your Company without mentioning your Company name, product name or any officer’s or director’s name on it. Then we will send out the teaser out to approximately 15,000+ venture capitalists, high net worth investors, hedge funds and angels.
For management or entrepreneurs seeking external support, the plan is the most important sales document that they are ever likely to produce as it could be the key to raising finance etc. Preparation of a comprehensive plan will not guarantee success in raising funds or mobilizing support, but lack of a sound plan will, almost certainly, ensure failure.
Take advantage of our experience. Our team has more than 100 years of investment banking experience combined.
Preparing a satisfactory business plan is a painful but essential exercise. The planning process forces managers or entrepreneurs to understand more clearly what they want to achieve, and how and when they can do it. Even if no external support is needed, a business plan can play a vital role in helping to avoid mistakes or recognize hidden opportunities. It is much easier to fold a sheet of paper than a business.
If you have a business plan already, we can make it better. We will make sure your plan is presentable and your financials make sense.
Anticipate many weeks of hard work and several drafts of the emerging plan to get the job right. A clearly written and attractively packaged business plan will make it easier to interest possible supporters, investors etc. A well-prepared business plan will demonstrate that the managers or entrepreneurs know the business and that they have thought through its development in terms of products, management, finances, and most importantly, markets and competition.
