Monday, May 7, 2012

The business of a business plan



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                 Aaaah, the business of making a business plan for a prospective business. I guess it has relegated into planning the business of making a business plan for a prospective business. It has been roiling in my mind all these years; YEARS, mind you. Not months, but years. Plan, plan, plan. I now got to writing about it but not yet executing it: the writing of the business plan itself; don't even get me started about turning that plan into reality. That would take a whole new different universe of problems all its own. And perhaps more time, hopefully not years. (Toink, jeez, gee whiz, haler, whatevah: these are the voices I'm hearing in my head right now.)

                  For now, i'll put under wraps what type of business i'll get into (no, it's not monkey business smart ass , wink; also not show business), although i'll hazard to divulge as far to say that  it involves media services. But if you're interested in financing it, i'll give you a presentation, with handouts de rigeur, cocktails, dancing lights, background orchestra optional. Please keep in touch with me in Comments. Or let's do lunch. I'm not being facetious. 

                 For now cryptic information will suffice, lest my ideas might be stolen ha-ha.

                    Ideas, or more appropriately, facts and figures are what I have been scouting around in a local library. But the information I'm looking for is very specific and localized; by specific I mean hard numbers, by localized I mean something that applies to this part of the world. I haven't found the exact information and data that I really need. All the more the writing of my business plan gets delayed.

                     I have actually started writing it, now on my second page. There is no expected number of pages I have in mind: I just want all the information I need to be there, and supported by figures and projections.

                 If you have to get down to it, business plan consists mostly of projections, whether assumptions, surmises, or future figures.  This is where it gets tricky. It's really creating on paper what might be; putting into words and figures a yet-to-happen reality. This involves creative imagination, analysis, and perhaps, alchemy. My Business (and Legal) background may help, but I probably need more than that. 


                  And that more than that is what I need to fast track this endeavor: a spark, an inspiration, a stoke of genius! Where are theeeeeeese?!

                 In my future blog post, I'll share my  own business plan template (the parts, structure, what to include, what not to include, and all that stuff) and the how-to once I got mine going beyond this amorphous jumble of paragraphs and figures. 


                    Now if you'll excuse me, I've got some thinking and writing to do.
                    


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