How to DRAFT a Business Plan?

Draft a business plan in under 2 hours with our structured course. Perfect for freelancers and entrepreneurs seeking quick clarity and team alignment.

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Brief Summary

This course helps you create a business plan quickly and easily, using simple visual methods. Perfect for freelancers and entrepreneurs who want direction without spending months developing a full plan.

Key Points

  • Quickly draft a plan in under 2 hours
  • Ideal for freelancers and entrepreneurs
  • Focus on structure, direction, and team alignment
  • Visual methods with brainstorming templates
  • Covers analysis, opportunity, planning, and risks

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur
  • Conduct a simple external analysis of your business environment
  • Identify your business opportunity clearly
  • Draft the key elements of a business plan
  • Recognize potential risks and develop strategies to address them

About This Course

Simple method to draft a plan in less than 2 hours.

This course is made for people that want to quickly and economically draft a plan to structure their idea and create alignment inside their team.

It’s ideal for people that wants to get a direction for their business but don’t want (or don’t need) to spend months in developing a complete plan such as:

  • Freelancers,

  • Existing entrepreneurs looking for growth,

  • Tech starters with few capital requirements

  • …

The main benefits are:

  • Structure your ideas

  • Get a clear direction

  • Create alignment inside your team

We use a visual method with brainstorming templates and post it.

The course is structured in 5 building blocks:

  • The Entrepreneur: Understanding the characteristic an entrepreneur should have in order to be successful.

  • The Analysis: In this section we will carry out a simple external analysis looking at Environment, Industry, Market, Customer

  • The Opportunity: After the Analysis we will identify our opportunity

  • The Plan: In the planning section we will clearly show the different elements that constitute the plan.

  • The Risks: Finally we will identify risks and develop risk mitigation strategies

At the end of this course, you will have a clearer idea of what you want to do with your business. You will also be able to draft a simple DECK presentation to discuss your plan.

Attention I got some confusion before, here is the definition of "DRAFT" used as a verb (ref:the free dictionary) it's also the one I use :

  1. to draw up an outline or sketch for something to draft a speech

  2. to prepare a plan or design of

If you want to write a plan and approach investors, you might want to use this course to create a first draft but we advise you to take our other course on how to "Create a damn good business plan?!", more suitable for this purpose.

Here is the link to that course: https://www.udemy.com/create-a-damn-good-business-plan/

I also have another course on Marketing plan made easy. You can check at this URL: https://www.udemy.com/marketing-plan

  • Draft a Business Plan

  • Structure your idea

  • Create alignment amongst your team

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Instructor

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Timmermans Laurent

Laurent Timmermans Laurent is the founder and Managing Director of ATHENASIA working with Business planning, Performance Management and Management Training.He is university lecturer in Hong Kong for management, entrepreneurship and organisation behavior courses. Graduated from the University of Louvain la Neuve (Belgium) in which he earned a Master of Management (Major Marketing) and a Master in Work Sciences (Organization behavior)....

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of Shreya Ghosh
Shreya G.
3.5
3 years ago

Yes. I was pretty confused as in how to put all the floating ideas inside my head on the paper so that I look responsible and prepared atleast while sharing the idea. This course, so far, has given me very useful insights.

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ui-avatar of Venancio Tillett
Venancio T.
5.0
3 years ago

Short put powerful

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ui-avatar of Mital Bhagat
Mital B.
5.0
5 years ago

It is explains Business Planning Process in simplest possible way. Unbelievably simple but covers entire Gamut of Process.

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ui-avatar of Malcolm Dean
Malcolm D.
4.5
5 years ago

I think that this is a very informative and relevant course for people who are interested in starting a business or currently own a small business. I am looking forward to the next course.

I do intend to make use of the knowledge acquired in this course.

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ui-avatar of A. Man
A. M.
1.0
5 years ago

Nice teaser! Actually an excellent example of a sleazy selling tactic!
Shame on Udemy, you could have saved everyone who sat through this a lot of time by merely stating the obvious, "Take the complete course for $149.00 right now" and you will actually learn the facts not just a rough draft of what you will get from the actual course!

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ui-avatar of B. Van Der Windt
B. V. D. W.
3.5
6 years ago

Kort en bondig geeft deze cursus de basis van een business plan weer.

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ui-avatar of Aaron Hausman
Aaron H.
3.0
6 years ago

Haven’t gotten to the details yet. It is all conceptual.

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ui-avatar of Rita SerpaPinto
Rita S.
2.5
6 years ago

too theoretical. in practice where to look for information. competition; market; financial.

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ui-avatar of Mohammed Bin Khalid
Mohammed B. K.
5.0
6 years ago

I got many helpful tips in making the initial draft business plan which is helpful to foresee the output of my project in a fast time. Thanks to the instructor for his efforts.

It's no way you can find a simpler business plan tutorial. And it's helpful though to use the PPT file in petching my idea to an investor and get paid, So damn YEAH!

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ui-avatar of Thabang Mogodi
Thabang M.
4.0
7 years ago

Great course for starting a business plan

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