Writing a business plan. Presentation at Xavier Institute of management and entrepreneurship

1. How to write the
right business plan
Tony Paul, Founder of Datahut

2. Why do you need a
business plan?
A business plan helps define goals
and achieve them

3. A Bad B-Plan is better than
No B-Plan

4. Your company’s impact
on the lives of customers?
Company Purpose

5. Problem
What problem does
your product solve ?

6. Solution
Why is your value proposition
unique and compelling?

7. Why now?
Why hasn’t your
solution been
built before?

8. Market potential
Who is your customer and how big
is the total Addressable market ?
“ X “ number of
people are facing
this problem
“ $Y “ Billion is
spent worldwide
My company can
capture 10% of
that market

9. Competitor 1
Competitor 2
Competitor 4
Competitor 3
Your Product
Functional
Affordable
User friendly
Expensive
Who are your direct and indirect competitors.

10. Business model
How do you make money?
“ X “ customers
“ $ Y “ - Avg
revenue per
customer
Total revenue
X *$ Y

11. Market adoption
what is your customer
acquisition strategy?

12. Financials
Revenue projections, Expenses Budget,
cash-flow statement and Breakeven
analysis

13. Team
What's the story of your founders,
key team members and advisors?

14. Vision
If all goes well, what will you
have built in five years?

15. Thank you for listening

16. Questions?