Business Plans
Important documents used to attract investment before a company has established a proven track record.
What is a Business Plan?
The owner is in complete control and gets all the profits.
What are benefits of a Sole Proprietorship?
An agreement that unites two existing companies into one new company.
What is a Merger?
It's similar to a Social Security number but is meant for business related items only.
What is an EIN (Employee Identification Number)?
The stock of a small company that trades for less than $5 per share.
What is a penny stock?
Where you would provide supporting documents or other materials were specially requested.
What is the Appendix section of a Business Plan?
A formal arrangement by two or more parties to manage and operate a business and share its profits.
What is a Partnership?
This is a merger between two or more companies engaged in unrelated business activities.
What is a Conglomerate Merger?
An autonomous U.S. government agency established to bolster and promote the economy in general by providing assistance to small businesses.
What is the Small Business Administration (SBA)?
A means of raising capital to grow the business.
What is the reason that companies issue stocks?
What your company is and why it will be successful, including mission statement, your product or service, and basic information about your company’s leadership team, employees, and location.
What is the Executive Summary section of a Business Plan?
A legal entity that is separate and distinct from its owners.
What is a Corporation?
A merger that occurs between companies operating in the same industry.
What is a horizontal merger?
Sending in an application with information about the business.
What is business registration?
Initial public offering or IPO process.
What is how stocks are created?
Competitive research will show you what other businesses are doing and what their strengths are. In your market research, look for trends and themes.
What is the Market Analysis section of a Business Plan?
Profits or earnings are distributed among its members.
What is a Cooperative?
When one company purchases most or all of another company's shares to gain control of that company
What is an acquisition?
A word, phrase, symbol, and/or design that identifies and distinguishes the source of the goods of one party from those of others.
What is a Trademark?
Lack of information made available to the public, no minimum standards, lack of history, liquidity and fraud.
What are the reasons that Penny Stocks fail?
Tell your reader how your company will be structured and who will run it.
What is the Organization and Management section of a Business Plan?
To combine resources, to combine expertise, to save money.
What are reasons for Joint Ventures?
Conglomerate, Congeneric, Market Extension, Horizontal and Vertical.
What are types of Mergers?
It sells the right to use its name and idea.
What is a Franchise?
NYSE, OTC and OTCBB.
What are where stocks are exchanged?