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3 Reasons Why Your Business Plan is Useless

March 20, 2016 /

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Are you putting together a business plan? Well, good luck with that. I’ve seen lots of business plans over the past few decades that have been prepared by many well-meaning business owners for themselves, their bankers and their investors. Just about all of them have been useless.

Want to know why? It’s almost always one or more of the following three reasons.

By Gene Marks

Full Story: http://sba.thehartford.com/finance/3-reasons-why-your-business-plan-is-useless?cmp=EMC-SC-SBA-03432973

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Here’s how to write a realistic business plan with a long shelf life.

Before you write a lengthy business plan, consider starting to sell your product and service so you have some real-world experience to design your business model around.

By Kelly Spors

http://sba.thehartford.com/finance/how-to-give-your-business-plan-a-very-long-shelf-life

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