dmur

There is a business plan competition at my school and the plans are due Dec 6th. Honestly I feel pretty good about my chances b/c although there are over $15,000 in cash prizes I do not feel like there will be a lot of people who will be entering. My plan is to be done with most of the b-plan by next Tuesday. This includes executive summary, business description, market analysis, marketing plan, operational plan, risks and contingencies, and financial projects.

I’ve created a tiered system where each day I work on three different parts of the plan with each part successively closer to being done the longer I have worked on it. I figure then after 3 days every day I should be finiishing at least one part of the plan and starting at least one new section. So for instance right now Ive projected my plan to be like this for the next couple of days.

Wednesday
Finish business description
Get market analysis to 80- 90%
Get marketing plan to 50-60%
Work on Survey
Risks and contingincies 50%

Thursday
Finish market analysis
Get marketing plan to 80-90%
Operation plan10-20%
People10-30%
Finish R&C

We’ll see how it works out.

I was 87 pages into my screenplay and my laptop and backup device were stolen. It was pretty heartbreaking but my goal is to average 7-10 pages a day until I can get back to where I was. So far If I keep pace I’ll be at 42 pages by Tuesday and I started last Wednesday. Its been pretty tough because I can somewhat remember most of the scenes but I can’t remember the dialog which is killing me. My biggest thing though is just getting back to where I was so that my biggest problem will be revising things instead of trying to figure out how to rewrite the script. Once I get that out of the way I’ll feel a lot better