Do I Have to Have a Business Plan?

We believe traditional business plan documents are a waste of time and effort. They take forever to create then sit on the shelf...

While "Plan - Do - Check - Act" is a hallmark of successful business management, the "Plan" part stymies many entrepreneurs who mistakenly think the "Plan" is for someone else, like a banker or investor.

It isn't our experience that investors care about, much less read, business plans. Typically they (we) skim the Executive Summary and delve into the financials, but mostly skip the bulk of the document completely.

The better way is an "Operational Business Plan", sketched as a living document for you and your team to use - and modify - on an ongoing basis as real life unfolds.

Combining personalized coaching from Foodshed Investors with our proprietary online OpsPlan software, we'll help you define powerful:

• Overall Objectives
• Tactics to support those Objectives
• Key Success Metrics to measure performance
• Deliverables to create a management system specific to your business
• Projects to model how your activities can turn into financial results
• and Milestones to set date-based goals.