Here are some tips for drawing up your schedule:<\/p>\n
Develop a schedule and a set of goals against which you and your investors can measure progress.\u00a0 Try to choose milestones that can be clearly defined and easily measured.\u00a0 For example, saying “completion of first teddy bear prototype” is easier to measure than, “getting the first batch of teddy bears on department store shelves.”<\/p>\n
Provide a monthly schedule for major events in your business’ growth, and say when they are likely to occur.\u00a0 Be sure to include all those deadlines or milestones critical to your venture’s success–incorporation, prototypes, sales and distribution programs, product displays at trade shows, and receipt of first orders are five examples.\u00a0 Your schedule should also show numbers of your management, production, and operations personnel, as well as additions to your plant or equipment, and how these relate to your business’ development.<\/p>\n
You’re safer to give dates in a generic manner rather than by calendar dates.\u00a0 That way it’s harder to tell if you’re running behind schedule.<\/p>\n
Don’t forget to point out which activities are most likely to cause a schedule delay, and what steps you will take to correct such slippages.\u00a0 Also discuss the impact of schedule delays on your venture’s operations, especially its potential viability and capital needs.\u00a0 Try to avoid the bad habit most of us have in under-estimating time allotments.\u00a0\u00a0 You may want to propose a slow, medium, and fast course of development for your business.<\/p>\n
No business opportunity is ever lost.\u00a0 If you fumble it, your competitor will find it.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here are some tips for drawing up your schedule: Develop a schedule and a set of goals against which you and your investors can measure progress.\u00a0 Try to choose milestones that can be clearly defined and easily measured.\u00a0 For example, saying “completion of first teddy bear prototype” is easier to measure than, “getting the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":52,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entre-plan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}