Business Plan, Part 2: Vision, Structure, Target Audience, and Competitive Advantage

This video outlines three out of seven essential components of a good business plan:

  • Executive Summary
  • Organization and Management
  • Marketing Analysis

These sections of your business plan will paint the big-picture vision, indicate key responsibilities, and — critically — map the competitive landscape in which your product or service will compete for survival.

Feras Alhlou

Feras Alhlou

Feras has founded, grown, and sold businesses in Silicon Valley and abroad, scaling them from zero revenue to 7 and 8 figures. In 2019, he sold e-Nor, a digital marketing consulting company, to dentsu (a top-5 global media company). Feras has served as an advisor to 150+ other new startup businesses, and in his current venture, Start Up With Feras, he's on a mission to help entrepreneurs in the consulting and services space start and grow their businesses smarter and stronger.

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