Business Plan - Help

Hey Guys.. I need some help here..

I planning to start a business next year. It will be a kind of Forex boot camp in Brazil, but with shares.

The idea is basically the same. I will find a couple of good trades, with a good track record to make the video conference everyday at market hours and a training for the people who are starting in the stock market over there.
I already got a couple of potential investors looking forward to get it started and I`m doing a business plan to show the ideas and potential reward, risk, market and all that stuff.

I got stuck in the Forecast profit figures.
The number of people (non-company) who invest in the BOVESPA can double up in a few years. Today we have around just 600k people who trade, it means that 0.03 of the Brazilians are trading. Really few people are doing it. Brazil`s economy is growing fast and people are starting to look for more options to make more money instead of leaving it in the bank. So, a boom is expected in the sector. And I want to be part of It.!

I made a small projection of new customers of the web site, I`m just calculating that every week I will have 1% more people. Starting with just 10 people in a year is about 1400 customers. However, it is not going to be constant, for sure every month more people will join the service and people also will leave the service. How could I show that in numbers for the investors? How do I calculate de “drawdown’s”?

Thanks.. Any other comments are really appreciated.

Vini

not gonna comment on the nuts and bolts of the plan or how you get there, there's plenty of template solutions you can buy/get for free if you do that 'Google thang', but imo you have a great opp. there. BRIC, it's the new garlic bread!! If you are at the very start, (and looking at the numbers you post it seems that way) then IMHO aim high, take the idea to a major bank/firm and sacrifice a decent chunk of equity to get it up and running....keep us posted bud, excited for you...

Black Swan said:

not gonna comment on the nuts and bolts of the plan or how you get there, there's plenty of template solutions you can buy/get for free if you do that 'Google thang', but imo you have a great opp. there. BRIC, it's the new garlic bread!! If you are at the very start, (and looking at the numbers you post it seems that way) then IMHO aim high, take the idea to a major bank/firm and sacrifice a decent chunk of equity to get it up and running....keep us posted bud, excited for you...

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Thanks Black Swan!

I`m excited too.. Is quite a lot of work and not so much investiment. I`m seaching some data to offer in the web site, like basic strategies, candlestick and stuff and is just unbeliavle how my country is poor of information. There are few courses in the area which is really expensive and workshops of 10 hours that teach you how you can become rich, for not less than 2.000 bucks!!

There are really few articles and interesting stuff.. So I will have a lot of work to translate some good stuff and put it up.

With around 7-8k I can start running the business.. A nice web-site and a well done marketing it may be good. I`ve sent an e-mail to a broker back there to sponsor a trading competion with some good prizes and stuff and promote my service..

I will be working on it in the next few months and try to get it start around abril or so..

Thanks again for the positive comments.. !