The Definitive Business Plan: The fast-track to intelligent business planning for executives and entrepreneurs, Second Edition

Chapter 12. Getting it approved

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• Pulling it all together

• Focus

• What readers of the plan will look for

• Those financials again

• Final check on the plan

• They don’t know what’s coming to them

• Preparing for the meeting

• At last, the first meeting

• Meeting post-mortems

• Follow up

• Back to the drawing board

• Due diligence

• The contract

• Cash in the bank

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	“Victory comes to the most persevering.”
	--Napoleon

At last, you have everything that you need to complete your business plan. We have covered many topics to arrive here, and for good reason – the more effectively you do your groundwork, the more easily you will gain approval for your business plan.

Frankly you should find it very easy to win internal corporate approval for your plan, unless you have made ...