The Business Plan Reference Manual for IT Businesses

The Business Plan Reference Manual for IT Businesses provides a reference manual for undergraduate and graduate students that intend to launch their start-up business in the IT field. It helps them to create and model the business plan of their business. Therefore, this manual is mainly aimed at instructors who want to offer a practical view of the process of modeling, designing and developing an IT start-up. Additionally, it can be individually used by entrepreneurs who wish to launch their start-up businesses in the IT field. The structure of the book was defined taking into account different approaches to the construction of the business plan, which basically consider a disaggregation of some of these chapters in others smaller (e.g., marketing plan into products/services and market, financial plan into investment plan and economic-financial projections). These dimensions are aggregated into a single chapter, which facilitates the process of analyzing a business plan. It is also relevant to mention the inclusion of 'Chapter V - Prototype description' which is innovative and intends to take into account the application of this business plan template to the information technology sector.