07 Strategy | Why you STILL need a business plan: Hope is not a strategy! w/Tallat Mahmood, The Smart Business Plan Academy.

Tallat Mahmood, an advisor and investor who has helped small and mid-sized businesses raise hundreds of millions of dollars for growth, explains how to use a more efficient business plan as a strategic tool for growing your business, raising capital, and planning to exit at the highest possible value.


Tallat Mahmood is founder of The Smart Business Plan Academy, his flagship online course on building powerful business plans for small and medium-sized businesses to help them grow and raise capital. Tallat has worked for over 10 years as a small and medium sized business advisor and investor, and in this period has helped businesses raise hundreds of millions of dollars for growth, investing in numerous businesses himself. Tallat is also founder and Managing Director of SkyPanther Capital where he personally advises small and medium-sized businesses on funding, growth, and exits.