The business plan outlines a company's mission to clearly state its long-term goals and direct growth. It introduces the experienced leadership team and their record of success. The plan summarizes market trends that provide an opportunity, and identifies consumer problems and solutions the company aims to address through its key technology. It outlines competitive advantages, five-year goals and measurable objectives, and a three-year financial plan with sales and profit projections. The plan also lists resource needs and acknowledges risks and rewards, as well as near- and long-term issues that require resolution.

1. Company Name
Business Plan

2. Mission Statement
• Clearly state your company’s long-term mission.
– Try to use words that will help direct the growth of
your company, but be as concise as possible.

3. The Team
• List CEO and key management by name.
• Include previous accomplishments to show that these
are people with a record of success.
• Summarize number of years of experience in this field.

4. Market Summary
• Summarize your market in the past, present, and future.
– Review those changes in market
share, leadership, players, market
shifts, costs, pricing, or competition that provide the
opportunity for your company’s success.

5. Opportunities
• Identify problems and opportunities.
– State consumer problems, and define the nature of
product/service opportunities that are created by
those problems.

6. Business Concept
• Summarize the key technology, concept, or strategy on
which your business is based.

7. Competition
• Summarize the competition.
• Outline your company’s competitive advantage.

8. Goals and Objectives
• List five-year goals.
• State specific, measurable objectives for achieving your
five-year goals.
– List market-share objectives.
– List revenue/profitability objectives.

9. Financial Plan
• Outline a high-level financial plan that defines your
financial model and pricing assumptions.
– This plan should include expected annual sales and
profits for the next three years.
– Use several slides to cover this material
appropriately.

10. Resource Requirements
• List requirements for the following resources:
– Personnel
– Technology
– Finances
– Distribution
– Promotion
– Products
– Services

11. Risks and Rewards
• Summarize the risks of the proposed project and how
they will be addressed.
• Estimate expected rewards, particularly if you are
seeking funding.

12. Key Issues
• Near term
– Identify key decisions and issues that need
immediate or near-term resolution.
– State consequences of decision postponement.
• Long term
– Identify issues needing long-term resolution.
– State consequences of decision postponement.
• If you are seeking funding, be specific about any issues
that require financial resources for resolution.