Inbizvest is proud to sponsor Launch48.
The aim of Launch48 is to bring together participants from different backgrounds and levels of experience in the web industry to think/plan/develop and launch one or multiple web apps in one weekend. That’s right, in 48 hours! It’s a frantic, energy fuelled, entrepreneurial event designed to engage all participants while offering the opportunity to learn and meet new people.
Launch48 is taking place over the weekend 6-8th February 2009.
We could be mistaken for thinking the business world is about to end with headlines like these; Profit warnings ’seven-year high’, UK slump ‘is worst for 28 years’ and Profits ‘tumble’ at finance firms.
But although the market conditions are difficult it does rather depend on the industry and niche you are in, there are alway winners and loosers with any extremes of market conditions. Here are some of the winners:
Poundland sales rose 24.3% during Christmas including new store openings and they have plans for “significant” growth in 2009, creating 30 new stores and 1,000 jobs.
Domino’s Pizza UK and Ireland has reported strong growth in profits as cash-strapped consumers choose takeaways instead of eating out. Pre-tax profits rose 32.7% to £10.9m.
McDonald’s is creating 4,000 jobs in the UK after proclaiming itself more “recession resistant” than most retailers.
Aldi and Lidl enjoying annual sales growth of 19% and 14% respectively in June 2008.
So now is still a great time to start a new business, think about this if you can survive while things are difficult then you will fly when things pick up.
Business plan samples
Sometimes even with a template it can be difficult to get started so take a look at some of these sample plans to help you get a feel for the content of each section: