Dr. Raju Indukoori discusses the key components of a business plan, including an overview of what a business plan is, why it is important, and how to write one. A business plan is a formal statement that outlines a business model, goals, operations, and management plan to achieve goals over a set period of time. It is important to identify opportunities, consider all business facets, and test viability. The composition of a business plan generally includes the purpose, business model, SWOT analysis, management team, financial projections, and funding sources. A business plan should be written for potential investors, lenders, or partners to secure funding and approval.

1. Dr Raju Indukoori
IMT Nagpur
rajuindukoori@imtnag.ac.in
All About a Business Plan

2. Business Plan – Starting Point
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3. 1. What is a business plan
2. Why business plan?
3. How to write a business plan?
4. What should be the Composition of a business plan
5. For whom business plan is written?
6. To whom you have to send the business plan?
7. How to execute a business plan?
Our Discussions for this session
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4. 1. What is a business plan
It is a formal
statement of set of
business model,
goal/s, operations,
management with a
plan to achieve the
goal/s for a given
period of time.
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5. 2. Why Business Plan?
• To understand an opportunity as a money
making machine.
• To consider all the facets of business.
• To Identify future needs.
• Testing viability and feasibility.
• Partners and management team.
• To identify size and source of finance.
• Provide confidence for decision making.
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6. 3. How to write a business plan?
• Who should write the plan?
• What should the plan cover?
• How many pages to write?
• Should I mention all the confidential data?
• How should it be presented?
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7. 4. Business Plan Composition
• Purpose of the plan
• Business Model: Product / Service, Market
• SWOT: Competition, Regulation, new entry
• Management team and Goals
• Functional division
• Financial projections: ST, MT and LT
• Funding : Sources of investments
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8. Marketing
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9. Finance
• Estimating financial areas and areas.
• Find funding alternatives.
• Mobilizing funds.
• Repayment or Return.
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10. Investors expectations
• Initially dividend distribution is tough
• Sale of business / Dilution of equity
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11. 5. For whom business plan is written?
• Angel investor
• Venture Capital (VC)
• Private Equity (PE)
• Corporate Finance House
– Banks
– Non Banking Companies
• Subsidized loans
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12. 6. To whom to send the business plan
• Don’t flood your business plan copies to all
sources.
• Identify right source based on
– Risk appetite
– Cost of funding
– Desire to control
• Approach consultants or intermediaries to
have a right match in the market.
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13. 7. How to execute a business Plan?
• Investors
• Regulators / Licenses / Approvals
• Management Team
• Operational
• Profitable
• Consistent growth
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14. Business Plan Competitions
# Competition Organizer Cash Prize
in Rs
1 Eureka IIT Mumbai 5,00,000
2 Ventura NIT Trichy 2,00,000
3 Next Big Idea DST & Intel 1,50,000
4 Kushagra IMT Nagpur 1,00,000
5 Vishisht IIT Delhi 50,000
6 Sankalp TAPMI Manipal 50,000
7 i2E TiE Delhi 50,000
8 Ideas to Implementation (i2I) IIM Calcutta 40,000
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15. Any questions………..
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16. Wish you all the best
for your
‘Future Business’
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