Last night I gave a talk on how to develop a business plan for a small business. The fifty women in the audience, were part of a Cincinnati entrepreneurship program, Bad Girl Ventures. The energy and excitement in the room was sky high! Imagine fifty entrepreneurs, beginning their business journey.
Writing a business plan, while a necessary requirement of starting a business, can be a major source of dread and anxiety for the entrepreneur. Long, detailed, business plans that take hours and hours to complete are often pursued. It doesn’t need to be this way.
A much shorter version, the “One Page Business Plan”, allows the entrepreneur to move quickly into action, summarizing her key assumptions about the marketplace. Suffering and dread is dramatically reduced.
Here’s a link to my slide presentation, Zen and the Business Plan, that will get you started.
Enjoy!