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title: Business Plan Writing
description: Business plan writing involves drafting a formal document that outlines a company's goals, strategies, and financial projections. Learners will understand how to structure executive summaries, market analyses, operational plans, and financial statements to secure funding or guide operations.
category: business-entrepreneurship
subcategory: entrepreneurship
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/business-plan-writing
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# Business Plan Writing

Business plan writing involves drafting a formal document that outlines a company's goals, strategies, and financial projections. Learners will understand how to structure executive summaries, market analyses, operational plans, and financial statements to secure funding or guide operations.

## Available Resources

2 Books • 2 Websites

## Books

### 1. Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies (8th Edition)

**Author:** Rhonda Abrams

A workbook used as the business plan text at over one hundred business schools. Chapter worksheets walk through executive summary, industry and market analysis, operations, management, and financials, producing a complete plan a lender or investor can evaluate.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933895934?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** business-plans, market-analysis, financial-projections, startups, workbook

### 2. How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics)

**Author:** William A. Sahlman

Harvard Business School professor's 1997 HBR article, reissued as a short book. It argues a plan should answer questions about people, opportunity, context, and risk versus reward rather than pad spreadsheets. Readers will understand what investors actually read a plan for.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1422121429?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** business-plans, venture-capital, entrepreneurship, risk-assessment, startups

## Websites

### 1. Entrepreneurship, Chapter 11: Business Model and Plan — OpenStax

Chapter of a peer-reviewed, openly licensed university entrepreneurship textbook. It covers business model design, feasibility analysis, and brief versus full plans, including pro forma statements, breakeven, and cash-flow projections, so readers can build the financial section themselves.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://openstax.org/books/entrepreneurship/pages/11-introduction

**Tags:** business-models, feasibility-analysis, pro-forma-statements, entrepreneurship, open-textbook

### 2. Writing a Business Plan — Sequoia Capital

The template Sequoia Capital gives founders, listing the ten sections it expects: purpose, problem, solution, why now, market potential, competition, business model, team, financials, and vision. Readers will see what a top venture firm wants compressed into a short deck.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/writing-a-business-plan/

**Tags:** business-plans, pitch-decks, venture-capital, startups, fundraising

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