Designed by the experts at Laval économique, several practical tools are available to entrepreneurs like you. You will find advice, tips, and resources to support you in your challenges, regardless of your current situation.
Entrepreneur's Guide (only in French)
Do you want to start your own business? Certain steps are crucial to validate your idea, study the competition, define the structure of your business, and more. Bring your project to life by following the 7 steps to launch a business in the guide created by Laval économique.
Plania: The Smart Tool for Creating Your Business Plan
Do you have a business project and want to organize your ideas? Through a partnership with Plania, Laval économique offers Laval économique the opportunity to quickly and easily create your business plan for free using this AI-powered web application.
The platform centralizes business plan creation, market analysis, financial forecasting, and collaboration tools. Plania is designed to support entrepreneurs by simplifying the planning process, reducing turnaround time, and facilitating access to financing.
Business Plan Writing Guide
The business plan is a key forecasting and development tool for your business. In a single document, it allows you to record essential information about your operations, management, finances, and upcoming marketing.
What are the essential elements of a proper business plan? How can you clearly define your goals in it? In this writing guide, you will find all the necessary elements to create yours from A to Z.
Business Matrix
A strategic management tool, the business matrix is often used to develop or optimize different business models.
Ultimately, it is used to group key elements, regardless of your organization's sector. The visual table includes the value proposition, activities, customers, resources, and revenues — to name a few examples. Its goal: to offer a summary of a company's commercial reality in a single page.
With a blank template as a bonus, go through all the right questions to ask to expand your matrix. Start the exercise now!
Financial forecasting tool
The financial forecasting tool helps you evaluate the potential of a business project. Its aim is to provide a step-by-step method for completing this important part of the business plan.
In a structured way, the tool provides quantified answers for various elements:
- What is the initial cost of the project?
- What is the down payment for the promoter(s)?
- Will the company need external financing?
- What will be the monthly and annual sales for the first three years?
- What costs will be associated with the project?
- When will the company break even?
- And many others.
