BizPlanBuilder was inspired by our work with entrepreneurs. These people think fast and move fast. The idea of a traditional business plan was out of the question. An innovative, fresh approach to business planning was required, and BizPlanBuilder was born.

From the very beginning, our goal has been to support new products and services entering our world. We want the best stuff to prevail. Entrepreneurs, inventors and others who offer something great and want to succeed in the face of extraordinary competition, overwhelming odds and tight budgets need all the help you can get

BizPlanBuilder includes short, pre-written Microsoft Word® templates, Microsoft Excel® financial workbooks and a Microsoft PowerPoint® presentation template — All easily customizable to suit your unique business.

Expert comments on every page provide direction and insights to improve your plan as well as your business model. BizPlanBuilder provides everything you need to accomplish your goals, including important supporting documents, plus $600+ worth of extras.

3 Reasons BizPlanBuilder Out-Performs the Other Business Planning Software

1. Topping $1.5 billion in capital raised, BizPlanBuilder incorporates professionally-written, compelling text that provides the desired content and demonstrates the style proven with investors & lenders. The idea is that it's easier to edit than to write from scratch -- rather than answer a series of questions in a vacuum and let the program assemble a collection of canned paragraphs, BizPlanBuilder presents the text and numbers in familiar Word, Excel & PowerPoint templates where the user can see the context into which their answers will go — finish the sentences, overwrite the examples, and modify the formatting to make it perfect for your business. The financial models have evolved over 20 years and include characteristics gleaned from angels, VCs, bankers, and customers worldwide. For advisors working with business owners on their plans, BizPlanBuilder provides a valuable business eduction in itself.
   
   
2. BizPlanBuilder is the only "open" business planning system on the market.
   Most business concepts are very unique today, rendering most industry-specific sample plans useless. Instead, BizPlanBuilder provides the best of hundreds of business concepts cross-pollinated from every industry enabling the user to quickly adopt proven ideas and include them in their plans. A pull-down menu even lets you include external documents. The financial planning models incorporate Excel workbooks designed to make it easy to enter all of your assumptions, play "what-if", and handle the presentation to investors and lenders. An interesting addition is the inclusion of a table in the "Use of Proceeds Summary" page suggesting levels of investment required over 9/12/18/24 month periods -- compelling the user to plan for certain milestones. The financial models are completely flexible enabling perfect customization to any business model, plus they allow an unlimited number of links to and from external spreadsheets. (not so with Business Plan Pro)
   
   
3. Multi-user system enables time-saving collaboration over a network, server or web.
   The BizPlanBuilder system is optimized to enable collaboration with an unlimited number of others over a network, server or the Internet. Entrepreneurial and/or consulting teams can easily divide projects and work together no matter where they are. No more emailing sections, cutting & pasting or overwriting each other's work. Most of JIAN's 10 business-building titles run on this same system -- learn one, use them all. (You can even drag and drop a section of your business plan in to your employee policies manual!) Beyond the templates; however, business teams can even use the JIAN system itself for developing their own custom projects like technical manuals, sales books, or procedures guides. Likewise, individual users can enjoy anytime access to their plans from office, home, and laptop PCs.

More business plan and planning software experience

We've been developing business planning software since 1988. While that may seem dated to some, to you it means that we didn't just build a web site and start downloading software. We've been through many business cycles — we've been making this software and content better for a long time, and we're excited to say that this latest version of BizPlanBuilder is the most effective and streamlined yet... We listened to the professional business consultants in our network. We listened and incorporated ideas we got from thousands of successful customers..

BizPlanBuilder is the software tool that makes producing a compelling business plan a seamless and sensible process. It's very real, up-to-date, and with the right combination of art and science to help you all the way from idea to implementation.

The many advantages of BizPlanBuilder

Some of the advantages of BizPlanBuilder are simply unique; no-one else does it. For many BizPlanBuilder just goes further, bigger and better.

Easy - Uses native Word & Excel / Office (required) so you can quickly edit and customize your business plan without software import/export hassles
Fast - Sample plans are already written & integrated
Comprehensive - Plan + Financials + Everything you'll need
Modular - Intuitive Office document assembly system
Multi-User - Access your plan from your office, laptop or home
Collaborative - Share the project with your team and consultants over a network, server, or the Internet
Flexible - Financial models are in familiar Excel workbooks
Proven - More real (and BIG) success stories than any other
Refined - This is version 10, refined longer than any other
Reliable - Input from practicing experts in every field
Teaching Video - "The Thinking Behind Your Business Plan"
Web links - Free web-based Resources
Better - See this list of advantages
Guaranteed - Download it, use it... 60-Days or Money Back

20 years studying what investors & lenders finance

Our customers report having raised over a billion and a half dollars through venture capitalists, investors, banks, the SBA and corporate management. While many investors will tell you they want just a 2-3 page plan (you'll use the Executive Summary), it will really take a lot more than that to extract any real investment. While BizPlanBuilder provides everything in one document, it also is designed like a quick-reference guide to quickly access and address all of their questions. Given our unique experience, we help you anticipate investors' and lenders' questions, such as:

• Have you thought about...?
• What about...?
• How many...?
• Who else...?
• How much...?
• Can you prove...?

Written from the investors' and lenders' point-of-view

We often remind people that, "The better job you do on your plan, the better deal you'll get!" And, that your language can either attract capital or repel it. For these reasons, we provide you a planning system written from the investors and lenders point of view—because they are the ones who will give you the capital you need. Need proof that this works? Just read the comments at left (or at the bottom of this page.)

The BizPlanBuilder system provides a series of Word-based modules that help you consider every aspect of your business concept, with Excel workbooks doing all of the financial arithmetic for you.

Includes this Informative Video

The Thinking Behind Your Business Plan
Watch this 100-minute video on your computer. JIAN founder and CEO Burke Franklin talks to a group of entrepreneurs about the various aspects of business planning, and about the audience to whom you are presenting your business idea and plan. At risk of being politically incorrect at times, he's very real, he's been there, done that, and really wants to help you to understand the process and pitfalls. Watch it here.

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Achievable. Believable. Clear. Complete.
Concise. Focused. Professional. Realistic...

And, "the best business plan I’ve ever read." These are the responses countless customers have told us they’ve heard from bankers, investors, prospective partners and senior managers when they presented their plans they created by using BizPlanBuilder. The unique JIAN process assures that you'll be prepared—ready to face even the toughest audiences and able to answer every question.

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A comprehensive business plan can help you get what you want for your business.
BizPlanBuilder makes it easy.