How to write a good business plan
Business Partners, a specialist risk finance company for SMEs in Africa, requires a “comprehensive and well-motivated business plan from which a thorough understanding of your existing or proposed business, your own goals and objectives and your financing requirements can be obtained”. They provide a guide to writing a good business plan that covers the basics and helps you cover everything needed to present to investors and partners.
Franchising in Frontier Markets
Introduction to the report Need a cab in Bangalore? Call SPOT. Since its founding in 1999, SPOT City Taxi has grown from 18 cars to more than 300, making the company the largest taxi operator in the capital of India’s Silicon Valley. SPOT’s drivers are franchisees—independent owner-operators linked by a common brand, radio, and computerized dispatch system. What has made SPOT work when so many other franchises in the “frontier markets” of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia barely get off the ground? A new research report by Dalberg Global Development Advisers sets out to find the answers. “Franchising in Frontier ...
