Free Internet Cafe Business Plans

Free Internet cafe business plans allow you to see what others have planned before opening their cybercafes.

Even if you don't get to see too many free, complete business plans for Internet cafes, you may find value in looking at the existing cybercafes' websites.

Typically, when you go to the "About Us" section of any cybercafe website, you get their business plan in a nutshell: the description of their target customers, how they serve that customer segment, and how the cybercafe is organized.

Armed with the background information from the best cybercafes, you can apply that knowledge to the layout of a typical Internet cafe business plan.

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Available Free Internet Cafe Business Plans

Beyond that, you should apply your own strategy, research, and thinking to fill the pages of the business plan.

This will help you make the cybercafe a more successful business, as much of the value of any business plan is in the thinking process that goes into generating one.

The available free sample business plans for cybercafes include:

• bplans.com/spv/3142/index.cfm
• startups.co.uk/YerYIG1oS63Ijg.html (a description on ways to plan for finding premises, setting the cafe up, and making a profit)

Also, when building your business plan for a cybercafe, you may find value in the papers and studies done on Internet cafe industry:

• "Shaping E-Access in the Cybercafé: Networks, Boundaries and Heterotopian Innovation" by Sonia Liff and Fred Steward.
• "2000 Cafematics" by John Stewart (available as PDF (opens up a new window))
• "E-Life and Real Life: On- and Off-Line Social Life in an Internet Cafe" by Alison Powell (available as PDF (opens up a new window))
• "Gender and the Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Cafe" in Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations (London: Routledge 1999) by Nina Wakeford
• "IMHO: Authority & Egalitarian Rhetoric in the Virtual Coffeehouse" in Internet Culture (New York: Routledge 1997) by Brian Connery
• "Cybercafes & Social Space: The Realities and Virtualities of Cybercafes" by Mark Nunes
• "Is there a Place in Cyberspace: The Uses and Users of Public Internet Terminals" by Jeffrey Boase, Wenhong Chen, Barry Wellman, and Monica Prijatelj