http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2007/08/23/business-planning-like-building-blocks/ Start, Run, and Grow Your Business Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://upandrunning.bplans.com/2007/08/23/business-planning-like-building-blocks/#comment-6 Business plans: Fools errand or building blocks? « Nickpoint Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:13:59 +0000 http://upandrunning.entrepreneur.com/2007/08/23/business-planning-like-building-blocks/#comment-6 [...] The pro business plan campaigners say: “A strong business plan is essentially the cornerstone of your business, and yet many entrepreneurs drag their feet when it comes to writing one”, Colleen Debaise, The Wall Street Journal; “The goal is not to get a VC to read your plan.  The goal is to get a VC to invest so you can build a successful company.”; people like Tim Berry has even made an entire business our of business plans: “Think of your start-up business plan as a matter of blocks; pieces.” [...] [...] The pro business plan campaigners say: “A strong business plan is essentially the cornerstone of your business, and yet many entrepreneurs drag their feet when it comes to writing one”, Colleen Debaise, The Wall Street Journal; “The goal is not to get a VC to read your plan.  The goal is to get a VC to invest so you can build a successful company.”; people like Tim Berry has even made an entire business our of business plans: “Think of your start-up business plan as a matter of blocks; pieces.” [...]

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