{"id":1063,"date":"2011-11-16T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.invest-aura.com\/"},"modified":"2018-03-01T23:45:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T21:45:31","slug":"business-planning-and-entrepreneurship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/training\/business-planning-and-entrepreneurship\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Planning and Entrepreneurship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investaura is pleased to announce the launch of its new seminar on &#8216;Business Planning and Entrepreneurship&#8217;. \u00a0This is a 5-day event that can be booked by business customers and training institutes anywhere in the world, for groups of up to 15 people.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar is lead by one of the Investaura Managing Consultants acting as coach to help participants develop &#8216;best-in-class&#8217; business planning skills. Up to 5 case studies are included and discussed with the participants in a highly interactive manner. In addition, the consultant will help participants get started with their own business plan.<\/p>\n<p>Business Planning templates are provided in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Powerpoint. \u00a0 Beyond Excel, another software platform can be used at the client&#8217;s request for the numerical and financial part of the business plan: <a title=\"STEM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.investaura.co\/software\/impliedlogic-stem\/\">STEM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar structure is as follows &#8211; note that it can be customised for individual clients as required.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"1080\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/training\/business-planning-and-entrepreneurship\/busplanseminar\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?fit=778%2C349&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"778,349\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Pierre Lurin&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Business Planning Seminar\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?fit=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?fit=720%2C323&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1080\" title=\"Business Planning Seminar\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?resize=700%2C314\" alt=\"Business Planning Seminar\" width=\"700\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?w=778&amp;ssl=1 778w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/BusPlanSeminar.jpg?resize=300%2C134&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also have &#8220;The Art of Business Planning&#8221;, a web site fully dedicated to the topic of business planning. Our objective is to help entrepreneurs as well managers working for established companies write better business plans and create more successful and lasting businesses.\u00a0The web site can be found there:\u00a0<a title=\"The Business Planning Cookbook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-planning-for-managers.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.business-planning-for-managers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"5351\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/business-planning\/business-planning-for-managers\/bpfm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?fit=989%2C916&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"989,916\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BPFM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?fit=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?fit=720%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5351\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.invest-aura.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?resize=720%2C667\" alt=\"BPFM\" width=\"720\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?w=989&amp;ssl=1 989w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/BPFM.png?resize=300%2C278&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investaura is pleased to announce the launch of its new seminar on &#8216;Business Planning and Entrepreneurship&#8217;. \u00a0This is a 5-day event that can be booked by business customers and training institutes anywhere in the world, for groups of up to&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-container\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/training\/business-planning-and-entrepreneurship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4197,"parent":136,"menu_order":20,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Business Planning and Entrepreneurship | Investaura<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investaura.co\/wordpress\/training\/business-planning-and-entrepreneurship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Business Planning and Entrepreneurship | Investaura\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Investaura is pleased to announce the launch of its new seminar on &#8216;Business Planning and Entrepreneurship&#8217;. \u00a0This is a 5-day event that can be booked by business customers and training institutes anywhere in the world, for groups of up to... 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