How to Write a Business Plan

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Dedication This book is dedicated to the memory of my late grandmother, Elizabeth Eudora Woodall Darby, whose influence I acknow ...

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Appendixes A Business Plan for a Small Service Business .......................................................... B Business Pl ...

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YOUR LEGAL COMPANION | 3 If a series of #### symbols appear in a box in a spreadsheet, that means that you will need to widen th ...

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