(Photo: Corbis) The business plan is an important document, because in addition to encompass the nature of the business project and the idea of business, simultaneously performs three distinct tasks, namely planning and management and, finally, communication with third.

Accelerators, incubators and investors complain about the poor quality of the business plan drawn up by the Italian startupper, often weak and prepared to demonstrate the financial value of the project by leveraging hyperbolic and unrealistic calculations that decree billionaire revenue of startups.
The philosophy of a business plan should be drawn up is diametrically opposed, is the synthesis of an announced success and everything to prove, it is rather a summary of strategies, market and levers used in the short term.
Do not forget that startups should not plan on long time axes, because survival is far from guaranteed.
Let's see what tools to use.
B2Corporate published a series of Excel resources, never exploited properly, with plenty of examples for beginners.
A comprehensive guide that dissects the main points to be addressed in the business plan and formulas to make reliable and weighted calculations.
Of great interest is the guide published jointly by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Italian Association of private equity and venture capital (Aifi), written by someone who knows what he would like to read the business plan.
For those who want to use online resources it is reported Enloop that can be used in free form by startupper and, in that for a fee, for those business plans to produce them profession.
Planware makes available a free guide focuses on providing products for a fee but still valid and that also includes explanations to draft the SWOT matrix that helps to recognize and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a business project.
To use it is downloaded and installed the freeplan.exe file package that contains the guidance and a template for Winword.
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia published a fillable online toolkit where the emphasis is primarily on forecasts fund and the budget needed to start the business.
Staying in Australia the government's corporate website has captured a fair amount of documents, calculation methods and guides on one web page.

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