Establishing Nerd Patrol ,a computer services company
John Robbins, Mary Singh, and Nabil Quresh are best friends in college. John and Mary are computer science majors, while Nabil receives his degree in business administration. After graduating, each goes his/her separate way. John and Mary work as systems engineers in large technology companies, while Nabil joins the sales staff of a software engineering services company. Both John and Mary become fully certified on Microsoft and Oracle software products.
Five years after graduating, the three friends get together and toy with the idea of setting up a company to provide individuals and small businesses with a full range of computer and networking services including hardware and software upgrades, hardware repairs, debugging software problems, dealing with network problems, . They would model their business after the established franchise, Geek Squad. They would call their service Nerd Patrol.
In putting together their business plan, they have a wide range of options they can pursue. For example, they can start cautiously, with John being the only full-time employee at the outset, then having Mary and
Nabil join the venture later (low start-up costs). Or else they can try launch
Nerd Patrol as a full-fledged operation (high start-up costs). Identify a strategy that they can pursue, then develop a business plan that describes their proposed venture.
Outline of the Business Plan Document
In the world of real business, business plans can take on a variety of shapes and sizes. They may range in length from a few pages to hundreds of pages,
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