JIAN Business Plan Template (Word and Excel files) - Updated for 2012 

Are you an entrepreneur, inventor or business owner agonizing over financing your business?

Biz Plan Builder - Business Plan Template for MS Office and Macintosh provides a series of concise, pre-written Microsoft® Word templates, Excel® financial workbooks and a PowerPoint® presentation — All easily customizable to suit your unique business needs using Microsoft Office or iWork. We've done most the authoring for you. There are no blank pages, so there's no writer's block.

Professional business plan template gives you a proven business plan complete with built-in financial models that have been thoroughly tested by thousands of businesses. (These have also been torture-tested with several billion dollars worth of investors over the years as well!)

Biz Plan Builder professional business plan template has been refined longer than any other — That's why Biz Plan Builder for Macintosh is so widely accepted (and often referred) as the best business planning solution by so many banks, consultants, other entrepreneurs, the SBA, angel investors, and venture capitalists worldwide. It's the fastest and easiest way of turning your ideas into a winning plan and a successful business.

Business plan templates make it fast and easy to write your plan - edit with iWorks or with Word & Excel (No Software Included)

The Templates only version of Biz Plan Builder is a collection of Word and Excel templates that contain the very same content as the PC program. Unlike the Windows-based program with its document assembly system, we have taken the content and formatted it directly into complete Word and Excel spreadsheet templates for you — beautifully formatted documents that you can easily edit and format to your liking using Word & Excel.

The best of hundred of plans built in!
Over the years, we've taken the best of hundreds of business planning components and incorporated them into a few great prototype documents you can use to easily write your business plan. If your business is even slightly different from vanilla, you'll find that this method is far more robust than deconstructing and rebuilding a limited so-called industry-specific cookie-cutter business plan template. (Read the Reviews.) We've already done the work for you, plus we have been working with entrepreneurs, consultants and investors for 20+ years.

With Jian's business plan templates, you have everything you need

You can't afford to take chances — go with the one business plan for Macintosh solution proven more than any other to produce an investor-grade business plan. Investors are asking more questions than ever and they want to be absolutely sure that everything is properly aligned before they'll write you a check. Some investors claim they want to see a 30-page plan (max), but before they'll write you a check, they'll ask enough questions to fill out the another 30 pages. At the end of the day, how you look an investor or banker in the eye with a thorough knowledge of your business will make all the difference in the world.

With BizPlanBuilder for Macintosh it's never been easier to organize your ideas, see how sales and expense projections effect your bottom line, and quickly output professional-looking, beautifully formatted documents required by banks and investors — so you can get funded fast

• Reorganize your company for greater growth
• Have your people pulling in the same direction
• Raise Angel or Venture Capital
• Apply for an SBA-backed loan
• Get support for a Not-for-Profit
• File a plan to emerge from bankruptcy
• easily make changes to go after new opportunities!

Expert comments throughout make it easy to write your business plan

The next best thing to having us write your business plan for you is to have our team of experts provide business planning advice, comments and business plan suggestions woven throughout every section explaining what to do and why. The JIAN Handbook of Business Planning included with Biz Plan Builder also provides a wealth of experience, ideas and information, plus a variety of additional tools to help you build your business and manage it more effectively with or without outside financing

Produce professional looking business financial projections with Biz Plan Builder Templates

Whether you're writing a formal business plan for investors or developing a meaningful forecast for your business, Biz Plan Builder incorporates a full set of business financial models. They are completely configured, fully integrated and tastefully formatted using Excel® workbooks. (Yhey work the same as in the Windows-based system). Click them open, then click along the tabs at the bottom to access each page... You'll see, they're very comprehensive, straight-forward and credible.

There's no need to be a spreadsheet or financial expert. We created "Assumptions" pages to make it easy for you to enter, update and experiment with your business model. All formulas have been developed and independently tested by qualified and practicing business consultants who hold valid CPA certifications.

Biz Plan Builder's financial models are straight-forward and show all of the math — Just enter your sales, expense, growth and other assumptions, and let Biz Plan Builder run the calculations. You can easily see "what-if" when you change scenarios. Easily produce investment-grade financial statements ready for angels, venture capitalists and any bank. We also integrated the following worksheets so you can engineer the best financing deal for your business:

• Sensitivity Analysis (We invented a unique 1-page "best/worse" case comparison worksheet)
• Business Valuation (3 common models + the average of all 3)
• Capitalization Table (Helps you plan stock allocation) 
• Investor "deal" analysis (How much will investors make; How much will you make?)

The "Use of Proceeds Summary" table suggests levels of investment required over 9/12/18/24 month periods — enabling you to prioritize your cash requirements to reach certain valuation milestones desired by most sophisticated investors. (When you understand this, you will realize why your deal will work and others won't!)  Click here for more details about the business plan financial models with sample screens...

Biz Plan Builder Template - No Application Included - Edit with Word and Excel!

Although the Windows "wizard" is not there, we have already assembled the documents for you — for easy editing and formatting in Word. We hope to have a cross-platform product out within the next 6 months that is collaborative for all of our users. We will honor our 6-month free upgrade to you at the time that product becomes available...

NEW! Jian Biz Plan Builder Template is now Available as an Online Application

JIAN Biz Plan Builder Online Provides all of the great features you have come to expect from JIAN plus a host of additional, improvements and convienances designed with your success in mind. Nothing to install, access securely anywhere -- anytime, improved user collaboration, financial wizards and even video help when you need it. Welcome to the future of business planning!