How to Write a Business Plan (4th Ed)

By Mike McKeever

Book Overview

Thinking of starting a business or raising money to expand an existing one? This popular book will show you how to write the business plan and loan package necessary to finance your business and make it work. Book jacket. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873371844
• ISBN13: 9780873371841
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: NOLO
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.3" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

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Almost Addictive

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I gravitated towards this book after realizing that my business idea did not fit easily within any of the prepackaged business plan software. The idea of writing the financial forcasting projections and tables on my own was quite daunting, but following this book I not only understood how to write the plan, but learned a great deal about small business financials in the process. I had use the software in the past and I had...

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