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What investors actually read in a business plan

Most plans are written to be complete. Investors read them to find a reason to say no, which is a different document entirely.

Placeholder body. The structure below shows how an article is laid out — the writing is awaited from the client.

[Opening paragraph. Set up the problem in the reader's own terms — the founder who has written sixty pages and heard nothing back.]

[First section heading]

[Two or three paragraphs making the first substantive point. Concrete, and specific to the Nigerian funding environment rather than generic advice lifted from US startup blogs.]

[Second section heading]

[Continue the argument.]

[Closing]

[Close with what the reader should do differently. An article that ends without a change in behaviour has not earned the reading time.]

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