Writing an Executive Summary
One of the most important parts of a business plan is the
executive summary. Executive summaries are also usually the first things read and analyzed by potential investors, so it's a very important part of your plan.
What should an Executive Summary include?
Your executive summary should be no more than a page or two and it should summarize all the other sections of your plan. It should include key financial numbers from your plan,
as well as brief summaries of other important sections.
When should I write an Executive Summary?
It should be the last thing you write in your business plan, even though it's usually the first thing read by others.
It's concise length and summary format will enable the reader to quickly understand what you plan to do with your business.
Banks and Venture Capitalists are busy people and if their interest is not piqued at the start they will not continue to read your plan. VCs receive thousands of plans, many of them the size of a book. They will only read a plan if the first few pages indicate that it is worthy of further exploration, which is why your executive summary is so important.
For more information on executive summaries, see our sample executive summaries below or use Business Plan Pro, which helps you write an executive summary as well as containing over 500 executive summary examples.
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Sample Executive Summaries
The links below take you to the executive summary of some of our sample business plans that were created with
Business Plan Pro.
