Sample Business Plan - Management and Ownership

Your management team’s talents and skills are some of the few truly unique aspects of your company. If you are going to use your plan to attract investors, this section must emphasize your management’s talents and skills, and indicate why they are a part of your company’s distinctive competence that cannot easily be replicated by your competition. Remember that individuals invest in people, not ideas. Do not use this section of the plan to negotiate future ownership of the company with potential investors. Simply explain the current ownership.

C. Planned Additions to the Current Management Team

1. Position
2. Primary responsibilities and authority
3. Requisite skills and experience
4. Recruitment process
5. Timing of employment
6. Anticipated contribution to the company’s success
7. Compensation basis and levels (be sure that they are in line with the market)

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