Tools

Business Planning Wheel
Will help you establish what business you are in, who your customers are, who your competition is and the status of your business to date

Business Plan Template
Covers all sections to be included in your business plan as well as the information that should be contained in each section

*See Recommended Reading for "How to avoid fatal flaws in your business plan." *

Equity Ready Checklist
Helps you determine your business' investment readiness

Finance and Growth
Helps you understand the relationship between funding stages and growing businesses.        

Information Memorandum Test
Put your IM through this test before you approach investors.

IP Australia PowerPoint Presentation
Covers topics inventors and entrepreneurs should be aware of in regards to intellectual property

Bell Mason Diagnostic
Helps you work out where different facets of your business should be during different stages of the capital raising process

Venture Capital Life Cycle
Shows the stage of the business alongside the approximate stage of financing, where those funds might come from