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1、商业计划书英文商业打算书英文Your business plan is very often the first impression potential investors get about your venture. But even if you have a great product, team, and customers, it could also be the last impression the investor gets if you make any of these avoidable mistakes.INVESTORS see thousands of bus
2、iness plans each year, even in this down market. Apart from a referral from a trusted source, the business plan is the only basis they have for deciding whether or not to invite an entrepreneur to their offices for an initial meeting.With so many opportunities, most investors simply focus on finding
3、 reasons to say no. They reason that entrepreneurs who know what they are doing will not make fundamental mistakes. Every mistake counts against you.This article shows you how to avoid the most common errors found in business plans.Content MistakesFailing to relate to a true painPain comes in many f
4、lavors: my computer network keeps crashing; my accounts receivable cycle is too long; existing treatments for a medical condition are ineffective; my tax returns are too hard to prepare. Businesses and consumers pay good money to make pain go away.You are in business to get paid for making pain go a
5、way.Pain, in this setting, is synonymous with market opportunity. The greater the pain, the more widespread the pain, and the better your product is at alleviating the pain, the greater your market potential.A well written business plan places the solution firmly in the context of the problem being
6、solved.Value inflationPhrases like unparalleled in the industry; unique and limited opportunity; or superb returns with limited capital investment - taken from actual documents - are nothing but assertions and hype.Investors will judge these factors for themselves. Lay out the facts - the problem, y
7、our solution, the market size, how you will sell it, and how you will stay ahead of competitors - and lay off the hype.Trying to be all things to all peopleMany early-stage companies believe that more is better. They explain how their product can be applied to multiple, very different markets, or th
8、ey devise a complex suite of products to bring to a market.Most investors prefer to see a more focused strategy, especially for very early stage companies: a single, superior product that solves a troublesome problem in a single, large market that will be sold through a single, proven distribution s
9、trategy.That is not to say that additional products, applications, markets, and distribution channels should be discarded - instead, they should be used to enrich and support the highly focused core strategy.You need to hold the story together with a strong, compelling core thread. Identify that, an
10、d let the rest be supporting characters.No go-to-market strategyBusiness plans that fail to explain the sales, marketing, and distribution strategy are doomed.The key questions that must be answered are: who will buy it, why, and most importantly, how will you get it to them?You must explain how you
11、 have already generated customer interest, obtained pre-orders, or better yet, made actual sales - and describe how you will leverage this experience through a cost-effective go-to-market strategy.We have no competitionNo matter what you may think, you have competitors. Maybe not a direct competitor
12、 - in the sense of a company offering an identical solution - but at least a substitute. Fingers are a substitute for a spoon. First class mail is a substitute for e-mail. A coronary bypass is a substitute for an angioplasty.Competitors, simply stated, consist of everybody pursuing the same customer
13、 dollars.To say that you have no competition is one of the fastest ways you can get your plan tossed - investors will conclude that you do not have a full understanding of your market.The Competition section of your business plan is your opportunity to showcase your relative strengths against direct
14、 competitors, indirect competitors, and substitutes.Besides, having competitors is a good thing. It shows investors that a real market exists.Too longInvestors are very busy, and do not have the time to read long business plans. They also favor entrepreneurs who demonstrate the ability to convey the
15、 most important elements of a complex idea with an economy of words.An ideal executive summary is no more than 1-3 pages. An ideal business plan is 20-30 pages (and most investors prefer the lower end of this range).Remember, the primary purpose of a fund-raising business plan is to motivate the inv
16、estor to pick up the phone and invite you to an in-person meeting. It is not intended to describe every last detail.Document the details elsewhere: in your operating plan, RD plan, marketing plan, white papers, etc.Too technicalBusiness plans - especially those authored by people with scientific backgrounds - are often packed with too many tech
