
How to Write a Winning Business Report
Joseph R. Mancuso(Author)
Touchstone (Publisher)
Published on 9. April 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
356 pages
978-0-671-76358-9 (ISBN)
Description
A CLEAR, STEP-BY-STEP SYSTEM FOR WRITING A BUSINESS PLAN THAT WILL ATTRACT THE FINANCING YOU NEED
Joseph R. Mancuso offers key guidelines and valuable tips on how to gear your business plan to the people who control the cash. Featuring the original business plans from three highly successful businesses, plans that raised millions in upfront financing, How to Write a Winning Business Plan also reveals:
* What financiers look for in a plan
* Nine questions that every plan must answer
* How to prospect for financial sources
* How to romance the money men
* How to locate hidden sources of capital
* How to handle objections
* How to gain a commitment
* And much more
Complete with handy checklists and key financial forms, this book is your launch pad for a thriving business venture.
Joseph R. Mancuso offers key guidelines and valuable tips on how to gear your business plan to the people who control the cash. Featuring the original business plans from three highly successful businesses, plans that raised millions in upfront financing, How to Write a Winning Business Plan also reveals:
* What financiers look for in a plan
* Nine questions that every plan must answer
* How to prospect for financial sources
* How to romance the money men
* How to locate hidden sources of capital
* How to handle objections
* How to gain a commitment
* And much more
Complete with handy checklists and key financial forms, this book is your launch pad for a thriving business venture.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Simon & Schuster
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-671-76358-9 (9780671763589)
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Previous edition
Mancuso
How to Write Winning Business
Book
06/1990
2nd Edition
Prentice Hall
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Person
Dr. Joseph R. Mancuso is the founder and director of The Center for Entrepreneurial Management, Inc. (CEM), the world's largest nonprofit membership association of small-company presidents. He is also the founder of The Chief Executive Officers Clubs (CEO), an organization of CEOs who run businesses with sales between $1 million and $50 million annually.
As a "compulsive entrepreneur," he has launched seven businesses, and he serves as a board member and advisor for a score of entrepreneurial ventures. Dr. Mancuso holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and he earned a doctorate in education from Boston University. He is the author of fifteen books, including Fun and Guts; The Entrepreneur's Philosophy; his classic best seller, How to Start, Finance, and Manage Your Own Small Business, now in its second edition; and his current best seller, How to Prepare and Present a Business Plan. Articles by Dr. Mancuso have been published in such diverse magazines as Playboy, The Harvard Business Review, and The Journal of Small Business.
Dr. Mancuso is a popular luncheon speaker and has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs. As a lecturer, he has delivered major seminars in thirteen foreign countries as well as in more than one hundred U.S. cities.
As a "compulsive entrepreneur," he has launched seven businesses, and he serves as a board member and advisor for a score of entrepreneurial ventures. Dr. Mancuso holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an MBA from the Harvard Business School, and he earned a doctorate in education from Boston University. He is the author of fifteen books, including Fun and Guts; The Entrepreneur's Philosophy; his classic best seller, How to Start, Finance, and Manage Your Own Small Business, now in its second edition; and his current best seller, How to Prepare and Present a Business Plan. Articles by Dr. Mancuso have been published in such diverse magazines as Playboy, The Harvard Business Review, and The Journal of Small Business.
Dr. Mancuso is a popular luncheon speaker and has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs. As a lecturer, he has delivered major seminars in thirteen foreign countries as well as in more than one hundred U.S. cities.
Content
Contents
Introduction
1 The Perfect Business Plan
2 Romancing the Money Men
3 How to Write an 11
4 What Is a Business Plan?
5 How a Business Plan Is Read
6 Writing a Business Plan
7 The Entrepreneur's Life Cycle
8 Capital: Where It Is and How to Get It
9 Facts About Small Business and the U.S. Small Business Administration
APPENDIXES
A Checklist for Starting a Successful Business
B Information Questionnaire
C Suggested Outline of a Business Plan
D Sample Business Plans
E Sample Partnership Agreement and Corporate Checklist
F Blank Forms for Projection of Financial Statements
G Actual Business Plans
H Sources of Help for Entrepreneurs
I Glossary
Afterword
Index
Introduction
1 The Perfect Business Plan
2 Romancing the Money Men
3 How to Write an 11
4 What Is a Business Plan?
5 How a Business Plan Is Read
6 Writing a Business Plan
7 The Entrepreneur's Life Cycle
8 Capital: Where It Is and How to Get It
9 Facts About Small Business and the U.S. Small Business Administration
APPENDIXES
A Checklist for Starting a Successful Business
B Information Questionnaire
C Suggested Outline of a Business Plan
D Sample Business Plans
E Sample Partnership Agreement and Corporate Checklist
F Blank Forms for Projection of Financial Statements
G Actual Business Plans
H Sources of Help for Entrepreneurs
I Glossary
Afterword
Index