# Business Plan Writing 101

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-plan-writing-101/613359>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 19, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-plan-writing-101/613359 "2012-02-19T22:15:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-plan-writing-101/613359/1 "2012-02-19T22:15:01Z")

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Imagine that I know nothing about writing a business plan (I don’t). Imagine that I have no money to hire someone to write one for me either…

Give me your best tips and helpful websites to show me the way. This will be a business plan for a store for gamers, an actual physical retail location.  
Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-plan-writing-101/613359/2 "2012-02-19T23:01:25Z")

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So, depending upon what resources you have access to, check the links listed on any of these:

[UC Irvine](http://libguides.lib.uci.edu/content.php?pid=148814&sid=1264363)

[University of Illinois Chicago](http://researchguides.uic.edu/Business_Plans)

[UT, Knoxville](http://www.lib.utk.edu/refs/business/entrepreneur.html#plans)  
This is a question that comes up a lot for academic business librarians, so there are lots of guides out there - they’ll point you to free web resources, but also subscription resources to do the research, so you might end up needing to use a local academic or public library to find the info you need to actually write the plan.

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**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/business-plan-writing-101/613359/3 "2012-02-20T13:58:22Z")

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Thank you!

I’m a student so you’d think I would have thought of this myself. :smack: