We need our business plan professionally evaluated. What firms offer this specific service & how much do they charge?
Our company has spent hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars, and brought in specialists to help us build a good business plan. We want to get our business plan professionally evaluated, but cannot find any service that does this specific task. What firm(s) offer this specific service, and how much do they charge?
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One of the interesting aspect of their review is the fact that they don't charge you a cent for the initial business plan review, all you have to do is provide your name, phone no., email and your 2MB, Word, WordPerfect, and Acrobat in zip files. Your business plan will get reviews from vFinance leading financial experts.
Sources:
http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?ToolPage=BPS_Free_review.asp
http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?ToolPage=aboutus.asp&ab=full
http://www.vfinance.com/home.asp?toolpage=map.asp
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M$Do you have little confidence in your plan even after all this work? I have done various searches on Google to try and find companies who evaluate business plans, but despite trying various forms of wording, I could not find any offering this service. This leads me to believe that there cannot be much need for it.
I did find some references to evaluating business plans, I have provided the links below to sites which maybe of interest. These sites appear to offer advice on how to do this yourself. Maybe these will help. Now you have done all the preparation, would it be an idea to press on with promoting and marketing the business instead of concentrating on evaluating the business plan? As I said, maybe I'm looking at it too simplistically!
http://www.inc.com/guides/evaluate-franchise-business-plan.html
http://www.thetimes100.co.uk/theory/theory--creating-evaluating-your-business-plan--352.php
http://www.go4funding.com/articles/Evaluating-The-Business-Plan.aspx
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I appreciate your reply.
FYI, it's not about confidence. We simply have a requirement for a professional 3rd party evaluation of the plan.
And thanks for the links. Unfortunately we have dozens of similar lists and documents, all of which are fairly shallow.
So, we still need an independent firm, preferably with years of performing a a proven process.
Yes, I thought i was looking at it too simplistically! Trouble is, if such firms exist, why are they so hard to find? Have you tried asking on Linkedin? Not sure where else to suggest.
