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Creating a business plan is definitely not the easiest or most exciting part of starting or organizing a company.
Creating your business plan is more than just putting your ideas on paper for potential funders to see. It’s an exploratory process in which you can evaluate your options, test your assumptions about your idea, and even discover new opportunities. It might even lead you to drop aspects and goals of your business before investing time and money in them.
This doesn’t mean you have to rack your brain and start a plan from scratch. There are business plan templates that make this process easier for you! Check out these business plan templates that you can download for free to get started.
Business Plan Templates in Portuguese
I’ve picked out some of the business templates I liked the most, all in Portuguese to make this important planning stage of your business even easier.
Sebrae - Business Plan Template (Excel)
Objective and practical material that you can apply to your business right away!
Created in 1972, Sebrae encourages entrepreneurship and promotes the competitiveness and sustainable development of small businesses in Brazil. A reference in Brazil’s business sector, Sebrae has made available a very complete and intuitive business plan template. To download it, you need to complete a quick registration.
Dynamic Business Plan - Business Plan Template (Word)
This booklet is short, concrete, and to the point!
Since 1995, Mogens Thomsen, owner of Thomsen Business Information, has been teaching and advising entrepreneurs on the Scandinavian peninsula, mainly in Denmark. He has made available a business plan template translated into Portuguese.
Endeavor - Business Plan Template (PDF)
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Endeavor is a global nonprofit organization with the mission of accelerating entrepreneurs who accelerate the country’s growth. They support thousands of entrepreneurs leading scale-ups, who are a reference in performance and commitment to society, and they drive changes to make it easier for companies to grow in Brazil, under the banners of Access to Capital, Tax Simplification, and Cutting Red Tape.
UOL - Business Plan Template (PDF)
UOL HOST is the hosting and web services unit of the UOL Group and draws on more than 19 years of experience from a brand that became synonymous with the internet in Brazil. They have a section called Meu Negócio, and through that channel they made a business plan template available. To download the file you’ll need to provide your email; you can enter a nonexistent email just to get access to the file.
Business Plan Templates in English
If you feel comfortable with English, grabbing a few templates and translating them is definitely a good option. There are many more templates available in English, and some of them will surely fit your needs.
Score - Business Plan Template (PDF)
Score is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to helping entrepreneurs launch their companies. Its template, available for download in PDF or Word, asks 150 questions and is generic enough to be customized for most types of businesses. The accompanying Refining the Plan resource is helpful, especially if this is your first attempt at writing a business plan.
SBA - U.S. Small Business Administration (PDF)
The SBA template is available to fill in online and download as a PDF. You can go back and edit it as needed, so don’t worry about having everything ready the first time you sit down to work on it. Even though it’s broken into sections, it’s a long and somewhat tedious document to read, but it produces a useful, professional-looking business plan. This is particularly helpful if your idea isn’t fully developed and you know you have homework to do, since it prompts you for information.
100 Startup - One-Page Business Plan (PDF)
Who said a business plan has to be a long and complicated document? Some funders will want to see lots of detail, but you can provide that in the appendices. 100Startup, the website of the best-selling book of the same name, has a ton of streamlined resources for entrepreneurs, including this super-simplified business plan template.
LawDepot - Business Plan Builder
You just have to answer a few simple questions and you’ll be “ready before you know it!” Don’t believe that. A business plan should take time and a lot of homework, but if you’ve already done that, LawDepot’s template is a decent choice. It walks through the first steps, marketing, product, competitive analysis, SWOT, and much more, with a window below the input fields to show the plan as you develop it. You can download it for free with a trial subscription, but remember to cancel it within a week if you don’t plan to keep using it.