Pros and Cons
Big things in "small packages"
"Start Up" the plan
Stick with the plan
How to Succeed in Business while REALLY trying
100

Easy and inexpensive to form

What is an advantage of a sole proprientorship?

100

When speaking of small businesses this characteristic describes their tendency to offer new ways of creating and nurturing  talent to invent new products or improve the ways things are done. 

What is Innovation?

100

Its best to ask these first:

  • What, exactly, is my business idea? Is it feasible?
  • What type of business is right for me? What industry do I want to get into? Do I want to be a manufacturer, a retailer, or a wholesaler? Do I want to provide professional or personal services? Do I want to start a business that I can operate out of my home?
  • Do I want to run a business that’s similar to many existing businesses? Do I want to innovate—to create a new product or a new approach to doing business?
  • Do I want to start a new business, buy an existing one, or buy a franchise?
  • Do I want to start the business by myself or with others?
  • What form of business organization do I want?

What are the questions to ask before you start a business?

100

What the reader looks at first. An overview of the business

What is the Executive Summary?

100

A program  for small business owners where  a businessperson needing advice is matched with someone on a team of retired executives who work as volunteers. 

What is SCORE , Service Corp of Retired Executives

200

It exists beyond the life of its owner

What is a corporation?

200

As defined by the SBA , i is independently owned and operated, exerts little influence in its industry, and (with minimal exceptions) has fewer than five hundred employees.

What is a small business ?

200

If you go this route to business ownership you’ll already have a proven product, current customers, active suppliers, a known location, and trained employees. 

What is buying an existing business?

200

This is a report on the cash you’ll need for start-up and initial operations, proposed funding sources, and means of repaying your debt. 

What is a financial plan?

200

Bad business idea, inability to handle growth, poor cash management, lack of customer focus, and managerial inexperience are all reasons for this

What is businesses fail?

300

It brings a diverse group of people together to share the managerial responsibilities

What is a partnership?

300

Small business can be found in this "sector"

includes all businesses that produce tangible goods.  involved in manufacturing, construction, and agriculture.

What is "Goods producing" sector?

300

This document tells the story of your business concept, provides an overview of the industry in which you will operate, describes the goods or services you will provide, identifies your customers and proposed marketing activities, explains the qualifications of your management team, and states your projected income and borrowing needs. 

What is a business plan?

300

A description of four related areas: target market, pricing, distribution, and promotion.

What is a marketing plan?

300

You should do the following for this outcome:

1. Know your business

2. Know the basics of business management

3. Have the proper attitude

4. Get adequate funding

5. Manage your cash flow

Why Businesses Succeed?

400

This advantage of small business ownership gives you the opportunity to work where and when you want to

What is lifestyle advantage?

400

Many businesses found here are retailers

What is service producing sector

400

That part of you business plan that describes the purpose or mission of your organization—its reason for existence. 

What is a Mission Statement?

400

To succeed in attracting investors and lenders, you must be able to describe this. 

What are your Goods and Services and the Production Process?

400

One-third of small businesses that have employees do this within  the first two years

What is go out of business?

500

This is the chance for monetary gain or loss when owning a small business 

What is financial risk?

500

A valuable governmental to owners and goes by three distinct initials

What is the SBA?  (Small Business Administration)

500

A description of  future customers and their profiles according to age, gender, income, interests, 

What is a target market

500

This describes the relationships among individuals within the company, listing the major responsibilities of each member of the management team.

What is the Organizational Structure?

500

They won’t actually loan you money, but working with them increases the chance that you will get funding from a local bank by guaranteeing the loan

What is the SBA?

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