Business Plan- Level 3

The Level 3 Business Plan is a sophisticated business plan designed for entrepreneurs and businesses seeking funding from a venture capital firm, investment bank, commercial lender or private equity investor. With securing capital for a successful launch or expansion of their company in mind, these clients require a more detailed business plan that clearly defines the market opportunity, strategic growth timeline, and exit strategy that potential investors want to see. The completed plan varies considerably because of content, complexity and time requirement. The Level 3 business plan is developed in concert with The Startup Garages financial experts, who have significant experience raising capital.

Benefits:

  • Create a business-savvy plan that can be presented to potential investors and financial institutions
  • Analyze markets and forecast sales
  • Identify your strengths and weaknesses relative to opportunities and threats
  • Optimize growth and development according to priorities
  • Establish operating and marketing plans and schedules
  • Differentiate your business from the competition


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Why Choose The Startup Garage:

  • Quality and Time: Between researching, writing, and financial modeling, it takes an average of 200 – 400 hours to complete business plan. Despite dedicating so much time, an inexperienced writer may or may not create a plan that meets the needs of potential investors. By working with us at The Startup Garage, you save time, and your plan will have the important information that anyone reading your plan is looking for.
  • The Right Kind of Experience: There are many experienced business plan writers out there, but few can offer the entrepreneurial guidance of The Startup Garage. Tyler Jensen, a serial entrepreneur and head of The Startup Garage team, has significant experience in all aspects of building a company, including obtaining funding, launching companies, growth strategies, and exiting successfully in addition to business plan writing. Drawing on this experience, Tyler will help you not only write a business plan, but create a business strategy that will lead to your success. In addition Michael Russell, with over 20 years of CFO experience, has helped raise over 75 million dollars in equity financing for startup businesses.
  • Community: After creating a brilliant business plan, at we want to see you launch and grow the successful, stable, profitable business of your dreams. With this in mind, we will continue to support you through our startup community, a group of specialists dedicated to supporting the development of new companies.

The Process:

At The Startup Garage, we consider ourselves to be part of your businesss team. While we have been tasked to write your business plan, our greatest goal is to assist you in launching and growing a successful company. With this in mind we will work with you to create a comprehensive plan that fits the needs of your small business. At your preference, our team is available to collaborate with you in person, by phone, video chat, or email.

  • You will receive a draft of each section of your business plan as it is completed. We will continue to update your plan until you are completely satisfied.
  • Your team is headed by Tyler Jensen, an experienced entrepreneur who will provide you with strategic guidance and coaching.
  • You have complete access to our team throughout the planning process.
  • All of our business plans are completely customized, and completed within 20 working days.
  • At your request, we will provide you with introductions to our community of service providers who can further assist you with the launch process.

The Startup Garage team will work with you to gather all the information and details of your company vision, and lead planning and coaching sessions to create a complete strategy for your successful business. We will be responsible for all of the heavy lifting from market research to financial projections, and we will work together to make creative and strategic decisions to insure that the plan meets and exceeds your companys goals. In addition to your needs for a business plan that will help you launch or gain funding, we strive to create business plans that will guide your business success for years into the future.

Our Research:

At The Startup Garage we make a point to use only the most up to date, relevant data for your business plan in order to create a clear and accurate picture of your industry, market, and competition. Our research tools cover all industries regardless of size, as well as complete demographic information for potential customers. This research forms the foundation for the strategic planning in the rest of your business plan, so we make a point to use only the most accurate and up to date data. Some of our trusted resources include:

  • EBSCOHost: the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end-users.
  • ESRI: With Esri’s technology, businesses go beyond standard data analysis and incorporate geographic location into viewing and analyzing business, demographic, and consumer spending data.
  • First Research: First Research includes industry profiles of more than 700 industry sectors and is updated on a quarterly basis. Industry profiles entail critical analysis, statistics, and forecasts to help business owners understand the industry in which they’re operating.
  • Hoovers: Hoovers offers extensive insight and intelligence for more than 700 industries, resulting in in-depth customizable summaries or one-page “Call Prep Sheets” that builds business strategies and strengthens overall knowledge of one’s business.
  • IBISWorld: IBISWorld is a powerful business tool to learn about existing clients or potential clients core industries of involvement & how changes to those industries can have an impact on you or your organization.

Pricing

The cost of a Level 3 business plan starts at $8,000 and varies depends on the scope and needs of the project.