How to build a business plan that inspires confidence in your potential backers.

One reason for developing a business plan is to get outside parties interested in providing capital for a new venture. A good business plan tells an interesting and comprehensive story that an outside party cause to evaluate the viability of a new business concept. So much has been written about what should and should not go into a business plan that the person preparing the plan can easily become overwhelmed and confused.

To provide specific and practical guidelines about what to put in a business plan that will inspire confidence in investors, weasked five people who regularly evaluate new venture opportunities totell us what they want to see in a business plan. Graham Geldenhuys of Step Strategic Venturing, Christo Botes of Business Partners, Martin Feinstein of Enablis, Julia Fourie of HBD Venture Capital and Chris Nthite of Old Mutual Masisizane fund all told us what they expect to see in a good business plan. Here’s what they had to say.

Make a strong first impression...................

Taking Smart Risks

How skilled are you at taking the right risks for the right reasons? By understanding the five types of risk and being realistic about your fears, you can maximise sales opportunities, minimise risk and develop the ability to confidently take calculated risks to achieve your goals.

By Brian Tracy

This post contains spoilers about Inception the movie. If you haven’t watched it and don’t wish to get spoiled, hold off on this post until you do.

After hearing a lot of positive comments about Inception and avoiding reviews/spoilers/potential spoilers the past few weeks, I finally watched it earlier this week with a friend. The film is impressive for all the reasons everyone has been talking about. Beyond the clever plot, engaging story and special effects, there are also important personal development lessons that we can take away from the film.

Before going into that, let me share my quick review of the movie. The review is not related to the 8 personal development lessons, so if you want to get right to the 8 lessons, scroll to the next section of this article. Otherwise, continue reading :D.

What is “Inception”?

Avoid these all-too-common errors to eliminate financial nightmares.

Even seasoned pros screw it up. Here are 5 rules to help you get It right.

Achieve your goals with a bold vision and effective, ongoing business planning

If you allow yourself to be tied down by small details, you'll never achieve the big picture vision for your company's future prosperity.

Use these five steps to write a practical business plan to launch a new company quickly.

Studies have shown that new business success is directly impacted by the types of personal and professional networks entrepreneurs have at their disposal. Here’s how to build yours.

Create a successful day from the start by taking these four positive steps to get motivated..........

The wisdom on how to overcome self-doubt, how to become better at empowering yourself, and how to make sure that you can live a life of leisure.

Every time you turn around these days, a business hands you a loyalty card. From the paper stamp card for your local coffee store to plastic bookstore rewards cards and frequent flyer memberships, your wallet is undoubtedly stuffed with bait that companies use to lure you back time after time. After all, it's easier and more profitable to generate business from repeat customers than to troll for new ones.

It is very important to any living person to understand where they originate from:

I will recommend this website for anyone to go and build their family tree. It is free, quick and easy to handle.

Be careful thou to ensure that you first read the faq's before just padding of and build your tree. It is really a daunting task to get it right once you mess it up.

The address is: http://www.genebase.com and you may use the search facility to first search for others in your name and surname class.

Enjoy !!!

THE PURPOSE OF INTERNET AND E-MAIL

Life without the Internet and e-mails doesn’t seem possible, yet not so long ago the only instant communications we had were the telephone and fax machines. The Internet has had a relatively brief, but explosive history so far. It grew out of an experiment begun in the 1960’s by the U.S. Department of Defence. The DOD wanted to create a computer network that would continue to function in the event of a disaster such as a nuclear war. If part of the network were damaged or destroyed, the rest of the system still had to work. It was the forerunner of today’s Internet.

1. I found it funny and amazed that the surname Rubeus is so often used and we are not more than 900 people with this surname in the world, BUT anyway enjoy this article. The beer and wine does actually exists.
2. laurennn Says:
   August 30th, 2008 at 3:59 pm

   As someone who works in a restaurant that ONLY serves micros and craft beers, I always get really annoyed when people hate on American beer because the average consumer is only made aware of the mass-produced crap. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good Belgian and German beer (Lucifer is a god-send) but most American microbreweries and brew pups have some of the best beer around. I’m lucky enough to live in Philadelphia, which is among the best beer cities in America so I’m constantly able to be exposed to great American beers.

I am of opinion that SARS are stealing from the businesses and VAT vendors. How? by writing off valid vat invoices, and if you are owed more than R500 000 rather not to pay it, but to start a legal batlle against you that cost you millions of rands so that the goverment can have an income, the attorneys have a work, and SARS could maybe win a case against you if your attorneys are unable to defend you properly and in most cases I believe that people can't afford a proper representation. And of course if they win the case against you there will be no reason to pay you out.