About Bplans™
We exist to help you, to teach you, and to provide solutions that build and grow your business. We believe that:
- You are the most capable person to plan, build, and grow your business.
- Business planning and strategy isn't rocket science; we all just need to learn together.
- Planning and running a business can be a lot of fun... really!
- You can be successful doing it.
Bplans™ contains the largest single collection of free sample business plans online. In addition to that, it has helpful tools and know-how for managing your business and has won several awards as a valuable "plain talking" resource.
Bplans™ is owned and operated by Palo Alto Software Ltd. as a free resource to help entrepreneurs plan better businesses. Palo Alto Software—The Planning People—develop, publish, and market software products for use with personal computers. Its products offer task-oriented, "know how" solutions for small-business and home-office entrepreneurs, professionals, and middle managers. The company is a privately-owned corporation in Eugene, Oregon with a European office based in London, England.
Palo Alto Software's Windows products include Business Plan Pro® and Marketing Plan Pro®. These products are available direct from www.paloalto.co.uk and also through www.amazon.co.uk, Staples and PC World.
Palo Alto Software's founder and CEO is Tim Berry, a renowned planning expert. He is listed in the index of "Fire in the Valley", by Swaine and Freiberger, the history of the personal computer industry. Tim contributes regularly to Bplans™ and his biography is available at www.timberry.com. The European operation is headed by Alan Gleeson, a graduate of University of Oxford and former manager at Barclays.
