The $100 Startup’s One-Page Business Plan
Looking for a no-fuss business plan template that gets straight to the point? The $100 Startup, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best seller, offers the One-Page Business Plan, a simple form that asks several questions you can quickly answer to get up and running.
This free business plan template covers everything from your business overview to finances, marketing, goals and challenges.
Small Business Administration
The Small Business Administration (SBA) offers an online business plan template and guide to help you build your business plan, step by step.
Once you create an account, you complete the cover page by filling in your company name, owner name and contact information.
SCORE
Their collection of business planning tools includes free Word business plan templates for startups and established businesses.
They also provide a sales forecasting template, competitive analysis charts to determine your business strengths and weaknesses, and financial planning templates such as startup expenses, profit and loss projections, and financial statements. Use these business templates to meet with a Score mentor for expert business planning advice.
Oprah
Catering to businesses owned by women.
Oprah.com’s free one-page business plan templates can be used by anyone who wants to start a business. The PDF templates come filled in with example information for small consulting businesses, boutique clothing stores and nonprofit organizations.
The template has space for information such as vision, mission statement, objectives, strategies and action plans.
My Own Business Institute
MOBI(My Own Business Institute) is part of Santa Clara University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. They offer a fifteen-section business plan template, including the business profile, licenses and location, which are available for free download in Word as individual templates, or as a larger all-in-one document. MOBI also covers topics associated with startups, but also provides information on how to run a business, including employee management, how to handle problems.
Law Depot
This step-by-step business plan builder, offered by Law Depot, covers structure, product marketing, SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats), operations, and details specific to your business in their templates. Once the template is complete.
Entrepreneur
Entrepreneur.com provides business tools, with a collection of business plans free in PDF, PowerPoint and Word.
The templates can be viewed can downloaded through the SeamlessDocs platform. The site includes a template for a variety of specific business types, a business plan model that outlines the different parts of a business plan, and customizable templates.
Bplans
Bplans.com, known as the authority on business plans, offers a free Word business plan template, complete with instructions.
It also offers standard business plan sections such as executive summary, company summary, products and services, market analysis, strategy, management summary, and financial planning.
Once you register, you will be able to download the materials and choose from a wide range of businesses in different industries in which to base your plan. (your business is online, service-based, or a food establishment…)
This business plan templates are comprehensive, option for beginners and new business owners.
The business plans we look at when working with executive, or clients and considering an investment.
Something that we find true for almost all the businesses we work with is that it costs their owners twice as much and takes twice as long as they’d envisioned to make those businesses profitable.
