Definitive Business Plan, Second Edition, The

Onwards

You have now completed the very core of your business plan. The hard part is over. The next step is to cost your plans and draw up budgets and cash flow forecasts. This is not to say that these are separate processes. All the steps in preparing a business plan are interactive. You cannot consider any one in isolation. You may have had to prepare financial estimates in order to develop the strategy and operating plan. Or you might decide to revise these parts of the plan after looking at the costs. Let's move on.

If one wants to be successful, one must think; one must think until it hurts. One must worry about a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

—Lord Thomson of Fleet ...