The One Page Business Plan® was conceived on August 14, 1994, fifteen years ago, on the side of Mt. Tamapalais in Marin County, California by Jim Horan. During the next few days Jim began to share the concept with a small circle of entrepreneurs. He began to speak to small groups of entrepreneurs and business owners. They loved the concept and asked if he had a published book. He didn’t and writing a book was quite a challenge for someone who barely got C’s in English. The book has become an Amazon best seller. Corporate America found One Page Plans and decided they wanted them also…along with software. Now the software is used by everyone from

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. – Proverb A perfect plan won’t ever happen. What you need instead is a “working plan” that is focused, concise, and easy to change! Planning is very important. My unscientific research leads me to believe that for every hour I plan, I save 10 hours in the long run (and make fewer mistakes). And even though I taught business plan classes for people looking for funding for their business, I did not create my own plan for a long time and used every excuse in the book to justify my actions. But after graduating from a life-training coaching program, my business was failing. Then I