Despite the current fashion of dismissing business plans, where can one find some examples of serious business plans? serious != school assignments. Of course plans from successful companies are preferable, but success can also be related to a tighter corporate hold on plans.

Some starting points: Viaweb: www.paulgraham.com/vwplan.html Extracts from Yahoo's 1995 plan: http://www.stanford.edu/class/e145/materials/Yahoo_1995_STVP... .com era from the Business Plan Archive: www.businessplanarchive.org And another era: Eckert & Mauchly's Business Plan from 1946 http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Eckert_Mau...