Getting Started (for Pre-Start-up and Start-up Entrepreneurs)

• GoForth Institute's Self-Assessment For Entrepreneurs
  • Want to know if you're ready to start a business? Find out with GoForth Institute's Self-Assessment For Entrepreneurs package, a comprehensive assessment of four critical factors associated with success in business: human, psychological, social and financial capital factors. Tested, valid and reliable measures of your readiness. From us to you.
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• GoForth's Quick Opportunity Screening Method
  • We believe that one of the main reasons for the high rate of small business failure is directly due to the entrepreneur’s inability to tell a good idea from a good business opportunity. So while an idea is the starting point for a new business, not every idea represents an opportunity to start a business that will make some money. To us, a good business opportunity is represented by four pillars – value, problem-solving, money-making, and fit. Use GoForth's QOS Method to put your great idea to the test.
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• GoForth's One Page Business Plan
  • We've written or reviewed hundreds of business plans - we show you what you need to include in a BP to make yours a winner. All on one page. OK, one really long page. A business plan in a nutshell was our other title for this section. We're sure you get the point. Don't start writing without our One Page Business Plan.
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• GoForth's Business Plan Template
  • So, our One Page Business Plan wasn't enough for you? Want more? OK, you asked for it. Our Business Plan Template is a narrative guide (fancy word for we won't write your business plan for you) to help guide you through the preparation of a formal comprehensive business plan.
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• Sample Business Plan
  • Want to see what a fnished business plan looks like? Definitely not the back of a cocktail napkin version, let "Adorable Pet Photography's" business plan guide you.
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Checklists (for Start-up and Growth Entrepreneurs)

• GoForth's All Inclusive Start-up Checklist
  • Want one more set of eyes on your state of business readiness? Our Start-up Checklist will tell you how close you are to throwing open your doors for business.
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• GoForth's Buying a Business Checklist
  • If you are interested in purchasing an existing business, find out why the business is for sale and review the information contained in this checklist before you sign on the dotted line. We’ve compiled a list of key pieces of information about the business that you should obtain from the seller.
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• GoForth's Buying a Franchise Checklist
  • If you are interested in purchasing a franchise, remember you are not buying a business; you are buying a legal right to use the franchisor's trademark, brand, operating system and ongoing support for a fee. In return, you pay an upfront franchise fee and provide a share of your income back to the franchisor. We’ve compiled a list of key pieces of information you should obtain from potential franchisors before you make your decision.
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• GoForth's Considering a Family Business Checklist
  • Whether you are considering starting a family business of your own or joining a family business that already exists, there are many unique features of a family business that you need to consider first. Use this checklist to help you.
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• GoForth's How Do I Measure Up? Competitive Matrix
  • Every business has competition. Not every business understands their competition well enough to profit from the competition's mistakes. Conducting a competitive analysis will give you the leg up on your competition. Learn their areas of weakness so you can position your business more effectively in the marketplace. The place to start is with a Competitive Matrix.
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• GoForth's Interview Question Bank
  • The interview is your only chance to gather as much information as possible about a potential employee in order to make your decision. Prepare a detailed list of measurable and comparable questions before beginning the interview process. Use our Interview Question Bank as a place to start.
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• GoForth's Lease Rental Agreement Checklist
  • Learn the components that should be stated in your commercial lease or rental agreement. Also, consider which components may offer leverage during negotiations and which components you can afford to back down on.
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• GoForth's Licensing Your Product Idea Checklist
  • For many people, invention is a short pathway to entrepreneurship - they design and develop the product, license the idea, or sell it outright, to another person or company to take it to market. We’ve compiled a list of steps to help you license your new invention, or sell it outright.
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• GoForth's Location Analysis Grid
  • Looking for a new business home? Let us help you take the emotion out of selecting the perfect place with a location grid analysis.
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• GoForth's Location Checklist
  • Location, location, location. Ask yourself the following questions on each of the location possibilities that you’re considering.
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