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Is the quality of entrepreneurial business plans related to the outcome of a new venture?

Hindle, Kevin and Mainprize, Brent 2006, Is the quality of entrepreneurial business plans related to the outcome of a new venture?, in AGSE 2006 : Regional frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2006 : Proceedings of the 3rd Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research conference, 2006, AGSE, [Auckland, New Zealand], pp. 760-777.

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Collection: School of Management and Marketing
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Title Is the quality of entrepreneurial business plans related to the outcome of a new venture?
Author(s) Hindle, Kevin
Mainprize, Brent
Conference name Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. Conference (3rd : 2006 : Auckland, New Zealand)
Conference location Auckland, New Zealand
Conference dates 8-10 February, 2006
Title of proceedings AGSE 2006 : Regional frontiers of entrepreneurship research 2006 : Proceedings of the 3rd Regional Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research conference, 2006
Editor(s) [Unknown]
Publication date 2006
Conference series Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship International Entrepreneurship Research Exchange Conference
Start page 760
End page 777
Publisher AGSE
Place of publication [Auckland, New Zealand]
Summary The evaluation of new ventures often involves two key aspects of entrepreneurial business plans: how best to write them and how best to rate (evaluate) them. Ultimately the performance of the venture should be the definitive criterion of quality. Surprisingly, the writing, rating and performance effects of entrepreneurial business plans (EBPs) comprise three related but under researched areas. This paper empirically tested principles for writing and rating entrepreneurial business plans to draw inferences on how to improve the private equity investment evaluation process. A simplified perspective of General Systems Theory guided our empirical investigation of the input and outcome of the VC investment decision. Our empirical investigation reveals that entrepreneurial business plans that comport with the writing principles from the literature improve a new venture’s likelihood of success.
ISBN 9780855908171
0855908173
Language eng
Field of Research 150304 Entrepreneurship
HERDC Research category E1.1 Full written paper - refereed
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Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022244
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