Business Plan for New Ventures: Essential Elements & Planning

This document provides a detailed overview of a business plan, emphasizing its importance for new ventures. It highlights the key elements of a business plan, including the new venture team, market analysis and sizing, industry and competitor analysis, intellectual property, the business model, the...Read More

Business Plan for a New Venture
1.0 Description about business plan and its requirements
A business plan is nothing but a document that illustrates several aspects for a venture
such as its opportunities, the type of service or product they sell or manufacture, the strategy,
context, resources that are required and the financial returns of the venture (Wallace & Webber,
2017).Business plans are needed as they serve many functions. Some of which are:
 Helps in obtaining finance.
 Helps in selling yourself on the business and convince people.
 Helps in obtaining large contracts.
 Helps in arranging strategic alliance.
 Helps in attracting key employers, etc.
2.0 Writer of the business plan
A business plan should always be written by the owner of the company or venture
himself. Outsourcing it will prove beneficial for the organization followed by the entrepreneur
who is associated with the organization. Hence, it is always preferred that the entrepreneur
himself writes the business plan with the correct insight. A business plan should be always
customer centric and should contain information that is required by the targeted customers
(Harris, 2019).

3.0 Key elements of a Business Plan
 New Venture Team
 Market Analysis and Sizing
 Industry and Competitor Analysis
 Intellectual Property
 The Business Model
 The Marketing Plan
 Financing the Venture
 Talking About Risk
There are also several defined rules for a perfectly written business plan. They are:
 Research
 Determining the purpose of the plan
 Creating a profile for your company.
 Documenting all the aspect of the company
 Having a strategic plan
 The plan should be adaptable based on the audience
 Should clearly state why you care
Thus, having a business plan will always help your business grow and in an organized
manner.

References
Harris, T. (2019). How do you write a business plan?. In Start-up (pp. 119-126). Springer, Cham.
Wallace, M., & Webber, L. (2017). The disaster recovery handbook: A step-by-step plan to
ensure business continuity and protect vital operations, facilities, and assets. Amacom.