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When starting a business, the second thing that an entrepreneur has to worry about is the business plan, the first being what business she or he wants to transact in. The Internet abounds in resources for making and researching crisp and cogent business plans.  There are several portals and blogs that seek to aid a budding entrepreneur or a business school academic in this all important task. DARE delves into such resources and gives you a lowdown on the best that are available.

Bplans (bplans.com): One of the most comprehensive online resources on business plans, it has several useful sections that tell you everything from how to write out a business plan to how to pitch a business idea and secure funding to doing complex financial calculations. With free and paid sections, blogs, videos and sections that allow users to network with others, this site offers a holistic mix of usable information to its readers.

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Center for Business Planning (businessplans.org): Apart from offering services like the ones offered by Bplans, this site is an excellent aggregator of some very good online resources. 

My Own Business (myownbusiness.org): This is largely a paid tutorial site that offers several features and tools on starting a business and a section on business plans is just one of the several sections on the portal that offer a step-by-step course on starting a business.

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Funded Plans (fundedplans.com): This site is managed by an organization that offers paid services that help you make a business plan and secure funding for the same, claiming that over three-quarters of the plans they helped make received partial or total funding and that over nine-tenths of such funded businesses are still in operation. The only sore point is that the site is primarily relevant to US-based businesses.

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Business Plan Archive (businessplanarchive.org): Set up in 2002, this was a public repository for business plans till 2007, when it became a non-commercial, academic-research-oriented resource. So, if you are a business school academic and want access to some of the finest business plans for your research, you have to submit a proposal on the basis of whose merit you will be granted access to the contents of the site. Conversely, you can also submit cutting-edge content you might have had access to.

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Help With Business Plans
written by multibagger, December 07, 2010
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