Business Plan Basics

The best way to show bankers, venture capitalists, and angel investors that you are worthy of financialsupport is to show them a great business plan. Make sure that your plan is clear, focused and realistic.Then show them that you have the tools, talent and team to make it happen. Your business plan is likeyour calling card, it will get you in the door where you'll have to convince investors and loan officers thatyou can put your plan into action.Once you have raised the money to start or expand your business, your plan will serve as a road map foryour business. It is not a static document that you write once and put away. You will reference it often,making sure you stay focused and on track, and meet milestones. It will change and develop as yourbusiness evolves.

Not everyone who starts and runs a business begins with a business plan, but it certainly helps to haveone. If you are seeking funding from a venture capitalist, you will certainly need a comprehensivebusiness plan that is well thought out and contains sound business reasoning. If you are approaching abanker for a loan for a start-up business, your loan officer may suggest a Small Business Administration(SBA) loan, which will require a business plan. If you have an existing business and are approaching abank for capital to expand the business, they often will not require a business plan, but they may lookmore favorably on your application if you have one.Reasons for writing a business plan include:
Support a loan applicationRaise equity fundingDefine and fix objectives and programs to achieve those objectivesCreate regular business review and course correctionDefine a new usinessDefine agreements between partnersSet a value on a business for sale or legal purposesEvaluate a new product line, promotion, or expansionWhat's in a business plan?A business plan should prove that your business will generate enough revenue to cover your expensesand make a satisfactory return for bankers or investors.

1. Executive Summary--features the highlights of your plan and sells your idea in two pages or less.
2. Company Summary--a factual description of your company, ownership, and history.
3. Products (or Services or both)--describes your products and/or services and how they stand outfrom competitive products and services.
4. Market Analysis-provides a summary of your typical customers, competitive landscape, marketsize, and expected market growth.
5. Strategy and Implementation-describes how you will sell your product, how you will put your planinto action, and establishes milestones.
6. Management Summary-provides background on the management team, their experiences, and keyaccomplishments.
7. Financial Plan-contains key financials including sales, cash flow, and profits.8.

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What's in a business plan?

A business plan should prove that your business will generate enough revenue to cover your expenses,but a business plan may vary depending upon whom your audience is. If you are writing a plan for yourcolleagues and partners, for example, to expand an existing business, then the focus of that plan may bemore operational than financial. Yes, you are going to show your partners how this expansion will meanmore revenues, but they are going to want to know the nuts and bolts of how this new venture is going tobe implemented.If you are writing a business plan for a bank, your bank manager will want to see that your ideas are wellthought out, but the most important aspect to him or her will be your financials. Are your assumptionsrealistic? And will the cash flow of the business be enough to ensure that you can make the monthlypayments for the loan that you have requested? If your business is making $1,000 a month and yourpayments are $1,200 a month, the bank is likely to turn you away.When considering an investment opportunity, most venture capitalists look at the obvious trends andmarket niches. Transcending the business elements, however, the most important factor in a decision toinvest in a company is the quality of the people. In real estate, the three biggest criteria are "location,location and location." The venture capital axiom is "people, people and people." VCs will ask, howexperienced are the people that are going to run this business? Do they have knowledge of the industry?Have they started successful ventures in the past?

What makes a successful business plan?
• A well thought out idea
• Clear and concise writing
• A clear and logical structureIllustrates management's ability to make the business a success
• Shows profitability
How do you write a business plan?
Sitting down looking at a blank computer screen as you prepare to start your business plan can bedaunting. You may want to look at some alternatives that will make the process a bit easier.Hire Professional. A professional consultant will create the business plan for you, but you still have to be repared to thinkthrough your business and understand the underlying concepts in your business idea. You will have towork closely with the consultant to ensure that he or she develops a good plan that accurately representsyour business or business idea.If you have a business concept on paper, you can have one of BB Media Global Group’sBusiness PlanSpecialist review your plan. Since 2005, BB Media Global Group has helped raise over $20 milliondollarsBuy a BookThere are many good books on the market that will help you to understand what needs to go into a goodbusiness plan. You can read Timothy Berry's "Hurdle: the Book on Business Planning".Use Business Planning SoftwareA good business planning software package will provide you with an outline for a well- veloped,objective-based and professional business plan. Software packages will remove the problem of startingfrom scratch by structuring your plan for you. The software should ask you the right questions that willpull out the most important underlying concepts ithin your

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PHP To Do every PlatForm Suport

What can PHP do?


Anything. PHP is mainly focused on server-side scripting, so you can do anything any other CGI program can do, such as collect form data, generate dynamic page content, or send and receive cookies. But PHP can do much more.

There are three main areas where PHP scripts are used.

* Server-side scripting. This is the most traditional and main target field for PHP. You need three things to make this work. The PHP parser (CGI or server module), a web server and a web browser. You need to run the web server, with a connected PHP installation. You can access the PHP program output with a web browser, viewing the PHP page through the server. All these can run on your home machine if you are just experimenting with PHP programming. See the installation instruction section for more information.
* Command line scripting. You can make a PHP script to run it without any server or browser. You only need the PHP parser to use it this way. This type of usage is ideal for scripts regularly executed using cron (on *nix or Linux) or Task Scheduler (on Windows). These scripts can also be used for simple text processing tasks. See the section about Command line usage of PHP for more information.
* Writing desktop applications. PHP is probably not the very best language to create a desktop application with a graphical user interface, but if you know PHP very well, and would like to use some advanced PHP features in your client-side applications you can also use PHP-GTK to write such programs. You also have the ability to write cross-platform applications this way. PHP-GTK is an extension to PHP, not available in the main distribution. If you are interested in PHP-GTK, visit » its own website.

PHP can be used on all major operating systems, including Linux, many Unix variants (including HP-UX, Solaris and OpenBSD), Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, RISC OS, and probably others. PHP has also support for most of the web servers today. This includes Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Personal Web Server, Netscape and iPlanet servers, Oreilly Website Pro server, Caudium, Xitami, OmniHTTPd, and many others. For the majority of the servers PHP has a module, for the others supporting the CGI standard, PHP can work as a CGI processor.

So with PHP, you have the freedom of choosing an operating system and a web server. Furthermore, you also have the choice of using procedural programming or object oriented programming, or a mixture of them. Although not every standard OOP feature is implemented in PHP 4, many code libraries and large applications (including the PEAR library) are written only using OOP code. PHP 5 fixes the OOP related weaknesses of PHP 4, and introduces a complete object model.

With PHP you are not limited to output HTML. PHP's abilities includes outputting images, PDF files and even Flash movies (using libswf and Ming) generated on the fly. You can also output easily any text, such as XHTML and any other XML file. PHP can autogenerate these files, and save them in the file system, instead of printing it out, forming a server-side cache for your dynamic content.

One of the strongest and most significant features in PHP is its support for a wide range of databases. Writing a database-enabled web page is incredibly simple. The following databases are currently supported:

Adabas D InterBase PostgreSQL
dBase FrontBase SQLite
Empress mSQL Solid
FilePro (read-only) Direct MS-SQL Sybase
Hyperwave MySQL Velocis
IBM DB2 ODBC Unix dbm
Informix Oracle (OCI7 and OCI8)
Ingres Ovrimos

We also have a database abstraction extension (named PDO) allowing you to transparently use any database supported by that extension. Additionally PHP supports ODBC, the Open Database Connection standard, so you can connect to any other database supporting this world standard.

PHP also has support for talking to other services using protocols such as LDAP, IMAP, SNMP, NNTP, POP3, HTTP, COM (on Windows) and countless others. You can also open raw network sockets and interact using any other protocol. PHP has support for the WDDX complex data exchange between virtually all Web programming languages. Talking about interconnection, PHP has support for instantiation of Java objects and using them transparently as PHP objects. You can also use our CORBA extension to access remote objects.

PHP has extremely useful text processing features, from the POSIX Extended or Perl regular expressions to parsing XML documents. For parsing and accessing XML documents, PHP 4 supports the SAX and DOM standards, and you can also use the XSLT extension to transform XML documents. PHP 5 standardizes all the XML extensions on the solid base of libxml2 and extends the feature set adding SimpleXML and XMLReader support.

At last but not least, we have many other interesting extensions, the mnoGoSearch search engine functions, the IRC Gateway functions, many compression utilities (gzip, bz2, zip), calendar conversion, translation...

As you can see this page is not enough to list all the features and benefits PHP can offer. Read on in the sections about installing PHP, and see the function reference part for explanation of the extensions mentioned here.

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