What Investors and Lenders Look For in You and Your Business Plan
Business Power Tools founder and BizPlanBuilder AI-powered business plan software template creator Burke Franklin consults on writing a business plan — What to think about as you edit the “Capital Requirements” section of your business plan and what investors and lenders (crowdfund, angel, venture capital, SBA) look for as they consider funding your start-up or growing company.
How much money you need?
Build your capital requirements from the bottom up — list everything you think you need to build your business vs. Ask for a million dollars and then figure out how you will use it — you may not have enough money!?!
This is best calculated using the Financial model.
- Click the Business Plan tab at the top, then “Financial Model ” (black “magic wand” icon)
- Open the “Visionary Funding Financial Model”
- At the bottom, find the [yellow underlined tab] Capital Requirements panel.
The next video addresses “Use of Funds.”
(Capital Requirements summarized on the next, green-underlined, tab.)
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