1.3. What are business plans needed for?

Typical Situations for Business Plans

Typical foundation situations

There are many good reasons to become self-employed. The individual motives can be summarised from the perspective of business plans. Business plans are prepared for different occasions. They can be differentiated in their nature. Each business concept has to address the different preconditions of coming into being.

Structurally, four typical start-up situations are to be distinguished:   

• Business plans for setting up a company:

a)       Start-up

b)       Start-up

c)       New foundation

• Business plans for the takeover of a company:

a)       Company succession as family succession

b)       Company succession as a company purchase

• Business plans for franchising:

a)       Business method for taking over an existing business concept: franchisor and franchisee

• Business plans for operational business concepts:

a)       Development of new business areas

b)       Planning new company locations

c)       Development of new projects or business areas

Development of new products or new services