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Sample Start Up Business Plan
Free Business Planning Toolkit

PART VI
THE KEY RISKS & OBSTACLES

Free sample start up business plan; a business planning course for aspiring leaders. In the following information, you'll learn the importance of The Key Risks & Obstacles section of a business plan.

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
- John F. Kennedy


For obvious reasons many business owners are not comfortable including risk issues in their business plan. Not only do they wish to avoid the topic in the boardroom, but many just don’t like to address key obstacles out of fear.

In addition, many entrepreneurs are programmed with optimism and they pride themselves on being able to overcome obstacles as they are presented. Some simply wish to avoid any confrontation on the subject of risk.

In our sample start up business plan guide, we do address key risks and obstacles. We suggest you do not sugar-coat any identifiable risk that you may face in carrying out your business plan. In fact, by addressed the risk squarely in your business plan you provide an opportunity for others to advise you on dealing with the issue most effectively.

Use the following steps for presenting risk and obstacles issues in your business plan:

  • State the risk or obstacle and the potential negative impact to your business
  • Explain why you believe this risk factor is something that can be overcome or avoidable
  • Provide your action plan for dealing with the risk issue
  • Provide a timetable. When during the business plan do you believe the issue will present itself and how long will you need before you will be past it?
  • List the potential cost to the business in dealing with the risk or obstacle

Make sure you have researched any possible means for insuring your business from the potential loss due each risk or obstacle. For example, if one of your key leaders has skills that would be greatly missed should he all of a sudden be killed or incapacitated, the organization may want to protect itself with a term life policy.

Learn more about our sample start up business plan course and The Key Risks & Obstacles section, by reviewing these free sample business plans.


Words of Wisdom for Business Owners
Key Rewards Come Out Of Obstacles

"If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out."
- Arthur Koestler

Everyone knows someone who regularly complains about how he or she would have been a great talent if only they grew up in a place more nurturing. They use the unkind conditions of their youth as a reason for being who they are; the person they aren’t totally satisfied with.

A person could suggest to those persons who are discontent about their upbringing, that some of the greatest characters in the world’s history consist of men and women who struggled through the harshest of realities.

These great achievers would no more trade their early struggles than they would cut off one of their own limbs. They now realize it is in the struggle to overcome adversity that makes men and women great. The sample start up business plan should include any struggles you faced and successfully overcome.

The fight against inhospitable surroundings is what develops extraordinary willpower and determination.

The true strugglers, those born to a heritage of poverty and hard-knocks, and not those who were reared in the lap of luxury, with few exceptions – have become the leaders of civilization. These men and women are known as the giants of our race: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr. are Helen Keller are prime examples of this trend.

A great number of people are never awakened to their true power until ruin confronts them. They do not know how to call out their reserve energies until they are faced with financial or physical disaster.

Only then are they capable of responding like a thunderbolt to overcome the adversity facing them. What seem at the time to be cruel misfortunes often prove to awaken, inspire and compel people to take action.

At last, having fought the battle and weathered the storm, the boy is a man and the girl becomes a woman; both are now admired for their fortitude and character and are indeed a force to be reckoned with.

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Additional Business Planning Toolkit Sections

» PART VII   The Use Of Time Targets
In your business outline plan, time management is critical to your success. This section helps you plan using realistic time targets as your guide.

» PART VIII   The Funding Request
A business education lesson plan is never complete without understanding how to clearly present the request for funding.

» PART IX   The Financials
More than one free business plan template is provided to assist business planners with the all-important financials.


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