Ask HN: What are some good examples/templates of business plans?

1 point·potatofish··3 comments

I'm specifically working on a SaaS company, and while I can draw from other business plans I've written, it's been many years since I've drafted one. Are there any examples or templates that provide a good outline for plans that are common to today's Web based or software based businesses? I'm not looking for silver bullets here, just a foundation to work from.

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I think you'll find the culture here to follow the idea that business plans are bullshit and you should spend your time on your product/service and customer service instead.

Just as agile software development has killed the big-design-up-front method of building software, starting businesses has thankfully followed suit.

If you're really successful, you get to write a book about how you did it, and then you can write what looks like your business plan, with the hindsight advantage ;)

Your question seems a bit silly to me.

Just answer to these questions in your business plan: -When can the VC expect profit? -What makes your team/product so special?

If you're going to make a business plan based on a template... Well... How are you going to stand out from all of the other templates?

Are you saying business plans are decided upon based on how different they are in structure? What I thought would make it stand out was the substance, and I am looking for an outline on what to include, the order in which to cover it, etc.

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