Initially Katzenbar continued with its corporate experience writing Marketing Plans and other business documents (such as Scope of Work and Feasibility Studies), but this developed into Clients requesting Business Plans. Clients then began asking us to help them with funding for their Business Plans. Our interaction with international Funders has helped us understand what they require to make a Bankable Business Plan(BBP) successful.
With the recent trend of customers prefering Equity funding, rather than Loans, we have adapted this experience to helping Clients summarise their business opportunity into a Pitch Deck for Investors. Even for Equity funding, it is a good idea to have a supporting Business Plan, but this does not need to be as comprehensive as a Bankable Business Plan.
Our view is that a good Business Plan (of whatever level) should not only explain the business opportunity, but should guide any reader through the document, so that when they have finished reading they should say - 'if I had money, I would put my own money in this business'.
As can be seen from the Testimonials, we are happy to either write the Business Plan or guide the Client in writing it themselves.
We have written a short guide to what is expected in a Bankable Business Plan - this is available on request.
Quick Tip - the Executive Summary should be :-
At the front of the Business Plan,
Be written last,
Summarise the whole Business Plan in only 1 page,
Cross reference the appropriate sections / subsections,
Clearly state what is wanted. If the Business Plan is requesting funding - don't be shy to ask for the amount, and say when it will be paid back.