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Business Plans that Work | 
 enlarge | Authors: Jeffry A Timmons, Andrew Zacharakis, Stephen Spinelli
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 252662
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 0.5
ISBN: 0071412875
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4012
UPC: 639785385264
EAN: 9780071412872
ASIN: 0071412875
Publication Date: April 1, 2004
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Product Description
Today's top experts in entrepreneurship deliver a streamlined, step-by-step guide for crafting effective business plans "Timmons is one of the two most powerful minds in entrepreneurship in the nation." --Success Business Plans That Work arms entrepreneurs and small business owners with an easy-to-follow template for writing persuasive business plans, along with proven models that can be used to analyze potential business opportunities from initial idea to viable venture. This value-packed book will show both entrepreneurs and current business owners how to: - Determine what to include in each plan, why, and for whom
- Recognize and avoid common pitfalls in the process
- Use the renowned "Timmons Model" to analyze potential business opportunities
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 Best small book on step-by-step Business Plans September 15, 2005
Peter Leerskov (Denmark)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This small book does a splendid job in explaining the business planning process more simple and uncomplicated than most books on business planning that often are too comprehensive and detailed - sometimes probably creating "paralysis by analysis" for the users.
The approach is a practical step-by-step procedure with the same specific case study throughout the book ("FireFly Toys"). At the end of the book, there's an alternative case study - including Powerpoint presentation - on another industry ("Fossa Medical"). Both case studies' 4-page executive summaries should inspire each and every manager to present his venture or business in this concise and exemplary manner...
It is indeed a no-nonsense guidebook and I especially like the small critical comments that the authors have inserted in the margins (as speech balloons).
Being a corporate strategist, I spend most of my time working with strategic issues including business plans. So I read a book on this topic with a subtle skepticism. But it was a pleasant surprise ;-)
Thus, I can highly recommend this easy-to-read 183-page book.
Peter Leerskov,
MSc in International Business (Marketing & Management) and Graduate Diploma in E-business
 Not Bad, but not great! August 8, 2005
Big Montanna (Hollywood, CA)
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
"Business Plans That Work" might work for you, if you're planning on marketing a product (not a service business) and borrowing ALOT of money. The sub-title of the book is "A guide for small business". The problem I had with this book is that it assumes that you want to borrow $500,000 or more and start a business revolving around a product. I would not consider that a small business! I was more interested in starting a service business (UPS or Fed Ex shipping store), but the examples in this book didn't translate very well for that goal. The book follows a start up toy company called Firefly Toys, whose product is a toy designed for children that are coping with a life crisis (divorce, death, abuse). To me this is kind of goofy! The reader would be more well served if the book had exapmles from many different kinds of businesses, or at least a more mainstream product. Bottom Line: This is not a bad book for any business. It does have a fair amount of useful info, but I would definitely try to get it from the library if I were you!
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