Creating your business plan
Why development Is a business plan essential?
For nearly 50 years, HEC Junior Conseil has developed expertise in the creation of business plans. This expertise of HEC Junior Conseil has enabled start-ups to raise tens of millions of euros as well as major CAC 40 groups to launch ambitious projects for some of their divisions. Each year, HEC Junior Conseil produces nearly 50 business plans and has a perfect command of the following the expectations of your future investors (Venture Capital funds, BPI France, Business Angels...).
The business plan is really the strategic heart of your project. The Business Plan (BP) is a written document that summarises a project to create a company or start-up. Its objective is to determining a strategic course of action to be carried out over the next 3 to 5 years. It is generally divided into two parts:
Commercial business plan
(in Powerpoint format)
Financial business plan
(in Excel format)
The business plan requires a great deal of research into the market and the competitive environment, as well as a great deal of work on formatting the plan in order to be able to serve as a guideline for the start-up for the next few years.
It is often one of the first steps for entrepreneurs to formalise all their research and documentation and is useful both for the start-up and for future investors. The form of the business plan is often predetermined and leaves little room for originality. The business plan is therefore primarily a detailed plan that start-ups set for themselves and that they are expected to follow for the next few years.
At what point a business plan should be created?
It is often one of the first steps for entrepreneurs to formalise all their research and documentation and is useful both for the start-up and for future investors. The form of the business plan is often predetermined and leaves little room for originalitý. The business plan is thus primarily a detailed plan that start-ups set for themselves and that they are expected to follow for the next few years.
Be careful to differentiate between a business model and a business plan. The business model describes the way in which a company creates value and thus ensures its own sustainability. The business model is thus the heart of your business plan, and is closer to the concept than to the forecast.
For more information and to find out everything about benchmarks, we invite you to read our article :
6 steps for your project
1. General understanding of the client's project by our Master's student in Strategy or Finance
2. Preliminary research on the market, the competition thanks to the 150 databases to which HEC Junior Conseil has access
3. Realization of the financial Business Plan according to the hypotheses determined with the client in order to be able to integrate the financial part of the Business Plan in the Powerpoint slides
4. Structuring the business plan and formatting
5. Delivery of two deliverables to the client (Commercial BP (Powerpoint), and Financial BP (Excel)) with strategic recommendations
6. Advice given to the client on how to pitch and master the deliverables given
The advantages of HEC Junior Conseil in the development of business plans
In-depth knowledge of the subject
HEC Junior Conseil uses students who are used to working on business plan issues: for the realization of the business plans, the contributors have taken courses in financial modelling, and have just completed a year's internship in the largest strategy consulting firms. We also choose students from the Msc X-HEC Entrepreneurs programme who have real experience in entrepreneurship and who will be able to support you in the best possible way. This balance between theory and practice allows our trainers to design excellent business plans.
Proximity to the business environment
HEC Junior Conseil is used to working with both start-ups and venture capital funds. This allows us to have an excellent understanding of the expectations of your future investors and enables you to optimise your chances of raising funds. Each year HEC Junior Conseil assists nearly 50 start-ups and companies in the design of their business plans and helps our clients raise tens of millions of euros.
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