Business Plan

This thesis deals with business plan. Theoretical part of this thesis defines basic terms related with entrepreneurship and covers business plan elements based on available professional literature. Practical part encompasses a particular business plan for starting a café in a students dorm. To identify potential opportunities, threats, strengths and weaknesses of this business plan analysis has been performed based on which particular strategies for successful project realization are provided. As a result of conducted marketing research essential information about target market consumer behavior has been gathered and appropriate marketing strategy has been decided. Subsequently to the performed analysis a finance plan is compiled, considering three scenarios of café attendance: optimistic, realistic and pessimistic. A practical usage of a net present value, internal rate of return and payback period to evaluate the considered investment follows. In the business plan conclusion project risks are identified and suitable measures for their elimination are suggested. This thesis aims at economical evaluation of the considered business plan