Question

Prepare a 12- to 15-slide PowerPoint^® presentation with speaker notes requesting initial funding of $500,000 to start and run a start-up company. The proposed start-up company could be an existing business model (coffee shop, pet store, etc.) or could be something entirely new and exciting.

Title Page

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Information about the Industry

Marketing Plan

Competitor Analysis

3 Year Income Statement (Profit & Loss) Projections

Include your assumptions for why and how you will achieve your sales growth and what significant expenses and investments you expect to incur to achieve your revenue goals.

3 Year Proposed Funding Schedule (Sources and uses of the funds received.)

Break-Even Analysis

Academic and Business References

Review the following scenarios and assumption, and explain how it impacts your decision to expand:

After Year 3, the investors are interested in your company expanding internationally to possibly outsource labor or to reduce manufacturing costs. What countries would you expand to first, and why? What factors would you need to consider in making this decision?

What is the corporate tax rate in the countries you are considering expanding your business to, and how will that affect your decision to expand globally? (Use OECD Database or another resource to determine the corporate tax rate).

The investors want to see a decision tree detailing the decisions you would make if you received $300K now and $200K at the end of three years instead of $500K up front.

The investors would like your team to provide advantages and disadvantages of using debt financing versus selling company stock to raise capital for growth.

Briefly explain the venture capital process. Does it make sense for your company to raise funds through venture capital?

Answer 1

This business plan projects on requesting for an initial funding of $ 500,000 to start and run a coffee shop.

This presentation examines the executive summary, information about the industry, marketing plan, competitor analysis, a three year income statement, assumptions on how to achieve sales growth and significant expenses to be incurred.

The executive summary highlights business products and services including the opening hours of the business.

Marketing plan covers the target market, competition and market trends.

Through use of the internet advertising, posters and flyers and by offering discounted meals on offer, the business will be able to attract customers to the services we offer.

Our competitor analysis focuses on the closest like services including Coffee Stop, Brandstakes, Century Fast foods highlighting their strengths and weakness.

Our competitor analysis focuses on the closest like services including Coffee Stop, Brandstakes, Century Fast foods highlighting their strengths and weakness.

Presented here is the business’s three year income analysis.

The assumption of costs has been expressed in terms of fixed and variable cost respect to the $ 300,000 capitation provided.

Our Sources of fund are mainly from willing and potential investors and will be used for business start ups and operations.

Our pricing and cost control provides a competive pricing model for revenue calculations.

The business success directly depends on the kind of management team, coffee shop supervisors and kitchen supervisors.