Research Guides: Purdue University Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition: Business Plans

Online Guides for Your Business Plan

Gale Business: Plan Builder
A step-by-step online planning tool for starting, managing and optimizing a business or nonprofit. The program’s intuitive dashboard walks users through five areas of exploration to develop a business plan focused on long-term success.

Small Business Administration: Business Plan Basics
Provides sample business plans. Provides detailed, step-by-step guides for developing and writing a comprehensive business plan.
Business Plans Handbook
Provides business articles for specific businesses. May provide actual sample business plan and financial data and/or guides to starting and operating business. Searchable by business.

Gale Business: Entrepreneurship
A portal for entrepreneurs containing business plans, entrepreneurial articles, small business forms and related information. Includes small business encyclopedias.

NEBS Business Plan Tool
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This Template is a powerful interactive tool you can use to write your own business plan in a comfortable and easy step-by-step fashion.
Quick MBA Entrepreneurship
Presents a definition of entrepreneurship and contrasts entrepreneurship to small business. Provides a sample business plan outline that lists topics frequently covered by business plans, a business model. Provides tips for making a successful pitch to venture capitalists, including finding the right venture capital firm, building credibility, and delivering your presentation.

Bankable Business Plans by Edward G. Rogoff; Jeff Bezos (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1587991632
Publication Date: 2003-10-23
Bankable Business Plans is designed to help create a compelling business plan for any endeavor. It guides readers through a comprehensive, step-by-step process to produce professional-quality business plans to attract the financial backing entrepreneurs need, no matter what their dream.
Launching a Business by Bruce Barringer
ISBN: 1606493981
Publication Date: 2013-02-15
If you’re thinking of opening up your own business, you’ll need this book. This is a hands-on book that focuses on the tasks that you or any new business owner must complete in the first 100 days of launching a business. How would you set your priorities? How would you know which tasks are the most urgent?