Everything you need to launch a winning business in today's climate! Product Information Build a plan you can take to the bank. With the release of version 8.1 , Jian has made planning much easier, and expanded your planning options to 5 master plans, fully flexible editing capability, with plan elements you can drag/drop, mix and match from any of the plans.
The ultimate business planning tool BizPlanBuilder helps you build a solid foundation for your business, with an intuitive, well-thought-out plan that incorporates the 10 secrets of building a successful business; gives you 3 levels of financial models to establish feasibility; and dozens of tools to manage and support your continuing success. Nothing is more important to building a profitable business than a thorough business plan. BizPlanBuilder helps you process your ideas and choreograph every move, with an intuitive, seasoned and artfully designed system incorporating many years of experience in almost every industry with countless customers and financial backers.
If you have an older version of BizPlanBulder (or any other business plan software), and you want to write a the best plan possible for today's market, then yes it would be worth it to upgrade to BizPlanBuilder 2003 (v8.1). The word "jian" (jee'-on) has its roots in the martial arts and means "the master of every art". For more than 14 years, JIAN has provided tools to help smart business people everywhere build their businesses and get essential projects completed -- in a fraction of the time it would take to start from scratch.
New Features BizPlanBuilder includes a new, easy-to-use system, and five different types of plans you can shape to the specific needs of your business, including:
NEW: DRAG & DROP customization lets you take sections from any plan type and build a custom plan for your business. NEW: Edit/add text anywhere. NEW: Fully formattable in Word/Excel/Office. NEW: Turn Expert Comments On/Off with a click NEW: Easily tab from variable to variable to quickly fill in the blanks. NEW: Three levels of financial models. Cover everything you need to include as you finance your business. (You can also use them as a cash forecasting/management system.) Basic Financial Statements: A quick look at your financial picture Intermediate: Linked statements for lenders Comprehensive: Flexible bottom-up/top-down financial/cashflow forecast system, valuable for any type of financing.
NEW:Cover letter templates to: Investors, Lenders, Friends… NEW: How to prep & present your plan
Product Features
The experts at JIAN have taken the best of hundreds of business plans and incorporated them into models you can use. Proven time and again like no other. With over 700,000 customers and hundreds of millions raised through venture capitalists, investors, banks, the SBA and corporate management, BizPlanBuilder is the proven tool for developing your business concept and presenting it to people who can back you.
Straight-Forward Financial Tools The financial models are already built and tested, so you don't have to be a spreadsheet or financial expert. (If you are, you can customize everything in Excel.) Just enter your sales, expense, growth and other assumptions and variables... It automatically calculates totals, percentages and ratios to show at a glance how much money you'll need, when you'll need it, and how soon you'll make a profit. See "what-if" when you change scenarios. (Exclusive one page 'Sensitivity Analysis' shows best and worst cases.) It's easy to update-—if you change a number, all spreadsheets automatically recalculate. Automatic Assembly & Complete Customization Once you've completed the selected sections, BizPlanBuilder can automatically assemble your plan, ready for review and final printing. The unique JIAN process assures that you'll be prepared -- ready to face even the toughest audiences and able to answer every question. Hundreds of sample plans are already integrated for you. You may be tempted by programs offering databases of faceless places to send your plan (very risky!), silly fonts and graphics (do not appeal to intelligent people), or sample plans written by people with little or no business or financing knowledge (QA?) Think of BizPlanBuilder as a carefully compiled collection of sample plans providing you the very examples of what to say. Only we make sure it all makes sense and that you can rely on it. When the smoke clears and the dust settles, who you are, and what you say and show in your business plan are what really count.
Complete. Focused. Clear. Concise. Professional. Believable. Realistic. Achievable. These are the responses countless customers have told Jian that they’ve heard from bankers, investors, prospective partners and senior management, when they presented their plans created using BizPlanBuilder.
Additional Features New & Revised Financial Models Market Potential It's important to demonstrate clearly the magnitude of your opportunity. The new "Comprehensive" model let's input the entire universe of potential customers for 3 categories, then you project your market share. Building on that, you estimate the % of customers who will buy at a given price... believable numbers add up and compound into a potentially greater business size than some might otherwise imagine--the key is that you can explain and justify your numbers.
Valuation This is a big part of any financial model and we use several methods to triangulate a respectable valuation for your business as well as provide a credible explanation that you can use.
Given a certain amount of investment, how many shares would your investor(s) get? What % of the company would they own? (We included a calculation to help you see that you will still become wildly wealthy even when your investor(s) get rich too!) What might round 2 and 3 look like. If you went public, what does that look like? Also, included (a la carte) is a separate spreadsheet that helps you calculate your return/profit if you were to sell you business.
Print Wizards Now we've enabled you more printing flexibility with simple buttons for printing a variety of scenarios with just one click.
Other Additions New Financial Models Basic Financial Statements Intermediate Financial Model Comprehensive Financial Model: for New or Ongoing Businesses
New Pre-Planning Tools
Writing About Your Business
New Resource Materials
Supporting Documents
Tools to Manage Your Business
Product Reviews Complete. Focused. Clear. Concise. Professional. Believable. Realistic. Achievable. These are the responses countless customers have told Jian that they’ve heard from bankers, investors, prospective partners and senior management, when they presented their plans created using BizPlanBuilder. BizPlanBuilder employs a refreshing combination of the philosopher and mentor approach. - Gerald Herter, CPA, MBA, Accounting Technology Magazine JIAN's BizPlanBuilder is our BEST BUY because it cuts through the complexity of developing a plan and helps you produce slick-looking results. Its exhaustive template walks you through the every step from cover letter to appendix, with plenty of samples... BizPlanBuilder also offers a better collection of financial tables, ratios, and projections than any competitor. - PC World "People come to us all the time seeking funding, and we use BizPlanBuilder to show them the business plan content and format we like to see." - David Wilt, E.D. Wilt Investments, Washington, DC Very impressed. I was afraid it might limit creativity. Instead it enhanced it! - David Shepherd, Shepherd & Co., Austin, TX BizPlanBuilder is the number one recommended software by our CPA, attorney, tax specialist and others." - Robert Crawford, Jr., ROE Associates, Atlanta, GA
"We've used other packages and, when we found BizPlanBuilder, we decided it is the one we want our clients to use. It covers all the bases, and helps generate the thinking required to produce a complete picture of the proposed venture." - Bill Dorgan, William Dorgan & Associates, Business Finance Consultants, Tucson, AZ System Requirements
