Planning template · 36 topics
Business plan mind map template
A business plan mind map with problem, solution, customers, competition, go to market, operations, team and finances, to test an idea on one page.
Who it is for
- A first-time founder checking that an idea hangs together.
- A freelancer turning a side project into a business.
- A student preparing a business plan for a class or competition.
How to use it
- Open the template and name your business in the central topic.
- Write the Problem and Customers branches in plain language before anything else.
- Fill the Finances branch with rough numbers, then export Markdown to expand into a full document.
The outline
Every topic in the template, as it opens in the editor.
Business plan
- Problem
- The pain customers feel, in their words
- What they use today and where it falls short
- Solution
- What we sell
- Why the first customers will switch
- Customers
- First buyer, described precisely
- How many of them we can reach
- What they already pay for this
- Competition
- Direct rivals
- The workaround we replace
- Our unfair advantage
- Go to market
- Channel that brings the first ten customers
- How a lead becomes a sale
- Price, and why it is right
- Operations
- How we make and deliver it
- Key suppliers and tools
- Licences, insurance and legal setup
- Team
- Founders and who owns what
- First hire we need
- Advisors who fill a gap
- Finances
- Start-up costs
- Monthly running costs
- Margin on each sale
- Months until break-even
- Milestones
- Goal for the first 90 days
- Goal for the first year
- Signal that would make us stop
Take your maps to iPhone and iPad
MindmapPal for iPhone and iPad opens .xmind, OPML and Markdown files, works offline, and keeps every map as a file you own.
Join the waitlist
Coming soon to the App Store