Business Plan Reviews

Business plan reviews help you:

• Boost your ability to receive funding by creating a more compelling document.
• Choose tactics and strategies that are more likely to succeed, given the strengths of your business, business model, and team (as communicated through the plan).
• Avoid hidden pitfalls by identifying unverified assumptions and missing information that explicitly engaging risk management.
• Get the most from your team, by aligning your team around a common vision, strategy, and plan for the business.

Your business plan is a key tool for fund-raising, and a key tool for managing the business once you’ve landed the money. I help you produce a more effective plan through fixed-rate reviews of your plan and strategy. The review consists of my reading and analyzing the plan, and delivering the results in a phone conversation or face-to-face meeting.

You’ll learn how your plan will/won’t address the needs of professional investors. As an angel investor and Business Plan competition judge, I’ll be evaluating your opportunity and pointing out how it will come across to professional investors.

If you’re using your plan to manage, you’ll understand its effectiveness in both the hard and soft areas.

I evaluate the quality of the logic, presentation, and business opportunity presented in the plan. Where your plan uses industry or market-specific data, I rely on your research. If you say customers will pay $10,000 for a widget, I’ll probe your logic and make sure it’s consistent and well-presented, but I can’t take responsibility if your claim turns out to be false.

We’ll discuss whether the plan answers an investor’s critical questions:

• Do you know who your customer is? Who your market is?
• Do you convey the need you’re filling?
• Is your value proposition clear?
• Does your plan for reaching your customers make sense?
• Does your team provide the skills, abilities, and contact needed to execute the plan?
• Are your marketing strategy, financial projections, and operations plans coherent and mutually consistent?
• Are you asking for the right amount of money, at the right times and valuations?
• Are there any glaring omissions in the plan?
• Is your plan written to reach your intended audience (VCs, loan officers, management team)?
• Is your plan persuasive?
• Do you have redundant sections to the plan?
• Is the plan clear, well-written, and is the business case presented in a clear, logical fashion?

Business plan reviews are fixed-price investment of $2,500 for a plan of up to 50 pages. For longer plans, call the contact number below or send email through the contact page.

Contact Stever by email or by phone to get started.