SmallBizPod #60 – Inspirational business planning

SmallBizPod – the small business podcast

This week SmallBizPod #60, the podcast for startups and entrepreneurs, focuses on business planning in an interview with Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and UK MD Alan Gleeson. For those new to business planning or for anyone who has ever found it challenging, this podcast will be an inspiration.

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Show Notes

Summary

Intro:

• 00:00 Alex on what’s coming up in the show.
• 01:38 Thanks to Sage for their sponsorship of SmallBizPod.

Features:

• 02:36 Interview with Tim Berry, founder and president of Palo Alto Software and UK managing director Alan Gleeson examining the right way to do business planning. Tim talks about the importance of setting a review schedule first, how all business plans are wrong and how no business plan is ever finished. Alex, Alan and Tim also discuss metrics, cash flow, why some entrepreneurs appear not to have written a business plan and how instinct and planning are complementary, not mutually exclusive.

Comments:

• 27.59 Thanks to Jesse Waugh of Prismania for commenting on how valuable SmallBizPod has been for business and for thoughts on the environment for entrepreneurship in the UK and US.
• 29.05 Thanks to Russell Pearson for including SmallBizPod in Crimson Fox’s top 10 podcasts to listen to during 2008.
• 29.32 SmallBizPod’s first African listener, Oladele Ayuba on his leap into the world of entrepreneurship in Nigeria.
• 30.13 Can you help Chloe Fowler with advice on how to find the right premises for her new market research company?
• 32.01 Thanks to Steve Townsend for sticking a pin in the SmallBizPod Frappr map.

• 32.33 Music – unlock by distruc with thanks to the Monotonik netlabel.

Tags: small business planning, business plans, small business podcast