Founder of BusinessPlanTemplate.com
Business Plans, Business Consulting, Capital Raising and New Venture Development
20+ years of experience in writing business plans and business consulting
Author of the best-selling book Start At The End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster By Reversing Their Business Plan, published by Wiley.
Dave Lavinsky is the founder of BusinessPlanTemplate.com and is an internationally renowned expert in the fields of business planning, capital raising, and new venture development.
Over the past two decades, Dave has guest lectured at top universities, written over 200 business plans, and has written hundreds of articles on entrepreneurship, business planning and capital-raising. He is also the author of Start At The End: How Companies Can Grow Bigger and Faster By Reversing Their Business Plan, published by Wiley in November 2012.
Dave is a successful serial entrepreneur, having started and exited multiple Internet and product-focused ventures, including Emerge Juice and Nutrition Systems – a wellness products developer and distributor; Shoutmouth – a niche music -focused social networking site; Z Reporter LLC – owner of over 3,000 niche-focused information websites; and TopPayingKeywords – a Search Engine Marketing & Optimization research data firm.
Dave is a past board member of the Los Angeles Regional Technology Alliance and a winner of the Anderson School at UCLA’s Knapp New Venture Competition.
Dave enjoys helping early stage companies prepare for significant growth as he has done with Dakim, Sandel Medical, XCom Wireless and numerous other businesses. Dave also conducted the market research and wrote the initial business plan for KeySpan Energy Services, now part of National Grid, which grew from zero to over $1 billion in revenues in less than three years.
Prior to his positions at Growthink, BusinessPlanTemplate.com and PlanBuildr, Dave gained professional management consulting, marketing consulting and market research experience with FIND/SVP (now Guideline), BPA International and The NPD Group.
Dave has an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.Â
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