Palo Alto Business Startup Kit

Business Plan Pro is the best selling business plan software that helps you get your business off the ground. Business Plan Pro will take you step by step in creating your business plan, allowing you to focus on the details of starting your business. These how to finance your small business resources, bundled with Business Plan Pro, will give you a wealth of information to get your new startup business up and running smoothly, including financing. Get all the details you need to find financing sources. The kit contains details about various loan programs, venture capital funding advice, pages and pages of contacts, and much more.

Business Plan Pro 11.0 Premier Edition

Business Plan Pro 11.0 is the world's most popular business plan software - outselling all others combined. Business Plan Pro 11.0 Premier is the most advanced business planning software available with the forecasting, collaboration and analysis tools you or your team need. Business Plan Pro 11.0 Premier is the most advanced business planning software available. No other business planning product compares with this software's functionality and flexibility. To purchase in the United Kingdom see here. In addition to all of the features of Business Plan Pro, Premier helps you:

• Collaborate with a team. Distribute the work load between several team members.
• See the big picture. Combine several plans into one and track actuals against your plan.
• Create detailed financials. Expanded sales forecasting, presonel planning, and detailed P&L statements.
• Plan your cash flow with the Cash Pilot tool.

The Premier Edition of Business Plan Pro offers more advanced tools for businesses that are truly serious about creating a comprehensive and professional business plan.

• Save time and money by using the Excel import tools.
• Create a detailed business valuation for your business or startup.
• Make better decisions with plan vs. actual tracking.
• Create "what-if scenarios" to plan for future changes in your business.

Manage your business better

Are you on track with your initial goals? Import QuickBooks data directly into your business plan so that you can compare what you have planned against your real-world numbers. Use the management dashboard to track variances in an easy way so you can make adjustments to your business that keep you and your team focused on the long-term goals.

Present your plan to investors with confidence

Calculating the value of your business is vital if you are trying to find investors, apply for a loan, or sell your business to a potential buyer. The Premier Edition of Business Plan Pro includes detailed valuation tools that can help you determine a solid business valuation and create a professional investment offering. Showcase the true value of your business with more advanced spreadsheets that describe the sources and uses of cash for any new or existing business. Make sure you maximize the full value of your business by using this option, which is only available in the Premier Edition.

Manage your cash flow

Want to see exactly where your cash is going? The Premier Edition includes a visual cash flow chart called the Cash Pilot™. The Cash Pilot gives you a visual representation of how accounts payable, accounts receivable, and inventory are affecting cash flow. The dynamic capabilities of the Cash Pilot allow you to adjust these amounts on the fly to easily see how your cash flow is affected by changes in your plan. Want to hire a new employee? How will this affect your overall cash flow? Easily visualize your cash needs with this advanced feature, available only in the Premier Edition.

Completely customizable

For those advanced users that would prefer to create additional tables or import current work done in Excel, there are many options available that allow for customization of your business plan. The Premier Edition gives you the power to insert a new user table, and paste cells directly from Excel into your plan; you can also import an entire Excel worksheet or workbook directly into your plan.

Create your own plan templates

The Premier Edition's ability to create custom templates is perfect for planning consultants, franchise owners, and any business looking to create a custom outline for a business plan. A template can be used to create future plans with customized topics and tables. You can export templates to share with other Business Plan Pro users, or import templates sent by other users.

Extend your plan beyond the first year

Business planning should not be a one-time activity. The best plans stay alive throughout the implementation cycle and are updated to reflect actual performance and changing conditions. Business Plan Pro is designed to support the multi-year planning and implementation process with easy year-end archiving and roll-forward features.

Create a business plan in hours, not weeks

It couldn't be easier. Our proprietary EasyPlan Wizard asks you simple questions, then determines the next steps based on your unique answers. Not only does Business Plan Pro walk you through the entire planning process with instructions throughout, but you also have access to detailed examples from over 500 sample business plans from hundreds of different industries. Whether you are planning a new business or simply revising your business strategy, the step-by-step guides and resources will make the planning process simple and easy.

Print and publish your plan

Produce a plan that gets attention. Every page is automatically organized and collated to produce a bulletproof business plan, in the preferred format of banks, investors and the Small Business Administration (SBA), that gets results. Customize your plan by easily importing your own graphics, logos, photos, and even fonts and layouts. Conveniently distribute your plan. Easily export your business plan to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Or create an Adobe PDF document. You can even upload your completed business plan to a secure password-protected website.

Forecast expenses, sales, and growth

Create a foundation for your cash-flow projections with our start-up wizard. Business Plan Pro then guides you through completing an accurate cash flow and balance sheet. Make realistic projections using our break-even analysis tool. It helps you understand when you will break even and when you will start making money. Plan for growth with our Forecaster tool. The Forecaster tool helps you add data to the cells of the income and expense tables.

New features in Version 11.0

Business Plan Pro has been rebuilt from the ground up for 2009. The updated design makes the most popular business plan software more powerful and easier to use than ever. Beyond the improved user interface, Version 11.0 offers a bevy of new features. These include new table and chart editing tools, more options for streamlined plans, support for Spanish language plans, a new management dashboard view, and more. Rebuilding Business Plan Pro from the ground up provided us with a unique opportunity - the opportunity to streamline the user interface, tossing the stuff that didn't work well and improving what did. You'll find a streamlined interface in Business Plan Pro 11.0 designed to help you finish your plan faster.

Get funding

Everybody knows you can't get money without a plan. Business Plan Pro has everything you need to create a custom business plan so you can get the money needed to execute on your idea. Business Plan Pro includes a valuable venture capital database, and a friends and family financing guide and many Small Business Administration (SBA) resources.