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Business Plan: The Executive Summary (Tao-style) |
Source: Lao-tzu (app. 50 BC). Compiled by Vadim Kotelnikov, Founder, 1000ventures.com.
Company Overview Management Team Products & Services Market Analysis Financials
Company
Overview
Products
& services being developed
"We make a home by hammering, but it is the space in between walls that makes it possible for living"
Targeted market
"We make pots from clay, but it is only the emptiness inside, which allows us to fill in whatever we want"
Brief
history
"To create and develop without any feelings of ownership, to work and guide without any expectation and control, is the best quality"
Milestones
completed and future plans
"There is time to go ahead, and there is time to go back.
There is time to move on, and there is time to rest.
There is time to be enthusiastic, and there is a time to stop also.
There is time to be cautious, and there is time to be afraid"
Management
Team
"Those who trust themselves, never give clarifications to others."
"When the Master rules, people cannot make note of his existence"
Products
and Services
Product
"We join screws in the wheels, but it is the hole in the wheel that drives the vehicle"
Operational plan
"Everything will settle in its own place automatically"
"If you want to achieve real intelligence, let things happen on their own accord. By coming in between you will lose everything"
Development risk
"The true traveler has neither any plan nor any intentions to reach the destination"
Risk management strategy
"Finishing small works at a time, will result in a great task"
Growth risk
"As you know more, you understand less"
Risk management strategy
"Face the problems, only when they become simple"
Other risks
"Success is as dangerous as failure"
Risk management strategy
"Stop thinking, and bring an end to all your questions. What is the difference between "success" and "failure"?
Markets
Analysis
"What others apprise, the same you want too, what others avoid, the same you want too, that is why, you fail as others, how ridiculous it is!"
"By chasing desires you will meet only the outer surface"
Competition
"When people see beauty in specific things, then other things become charmless.
When people see goodness in something, then other things become bad."
Marketing strategy
"Be satisfied with whatever you have, and enjoy the same. When you come to know that you have everything, and you are not short of anything, then the whole world will be yours"
Funds Required and Uses
"If you really want everything, then give up everything"
Financial
Projections
"If you are running too much after money and security, you will never find peace of heart"
"By trying to possess a thing, you will lose it"
