Starting a Business
Before you are able to secure funding or make any sort of progress on your way to starting up your venture, you need a business plan. Banks, or other investors, will want to know what type of business you are starting up, how it will be structured and how it will make money.
An ideal opportunity to analyse the strengths and weaknesses of your idea, business planning provides you with the foundation stone to your small firm. The below links will show you how to best achieve this.
Business Plans
* What is a business plan?
* Why plan?
* What goes in?
* Checking and pitching the plan
* Business plan guidelines
SWOT analysis
* SWOT analysis
* Using SWOT data
* SWOT tips
* SWOT templates
* How to undertake SWOT analysis
Paying yourself
* Paying yourself
Business planning news
* Risky business
* Small firms 'crave advice'
* EU cash to aid South East start-ups
* Firms neglect supplier failure back-ups
* Brown reaches out to business
* 'Micro' business owners happy being small
* More