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Old 02-07-2008, 11:04 AM   #1 (permalink)
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I am going to start writing a business plan for bar and restaurant I hope to open with a partner in a couple of years. I have written a business plan from scratch before but that was in college and I had three other people helping. The question I wanted to know is has anybody ever used programs such as "business plan pro" or another program and if you did was the software more or less helpful?

I should note it is not that I don't know how, or not that I don't want to write a business plan but I want the business plan to be very well written and I am trying to seek the best way. Any advice, opinions, questions and feedback is much appreciated.

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New Business Mentor 2007: An Entrepreneur's Interactive Business Planning Advisor 7th edition
ISBN: 0073102830

Great piece of software... highly recommend it !!
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Thank you for the suggestion, I am going to look into it.

I should clarify I used the term partner loosely, in not incorrectly in the above post, it is more for a successful business owner/investor/ become partner, it’s complicated. But thanks again it is much appreciated
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Why not just use a free template. The Score template provides general information for everything you should include in your plan. If you need assistance beyond that, you may want to hire a consultant.

http://www.score.org/downloads/Busin...iness_July.doc
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No need to pay someone to provide boxes into which you type information. Get another plan to use as a sample and use your money to buy you and your friends a few beers.
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No need to pay someone to provide boxes into which you type information. Get another plan to use as a sample and use your money to buy you and your friends a few beers.
SO NICELY PUT! forget the software, you wrote one, you know how to write one, find a sample and use that format and write one. Although business plan Pro do offer some really good samples, I use it but I got it for free of course. Find a sample and put that money in the pot for your business or like the he said buy some beers and discuss your business....
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