The reason for writing a business plan is to secure funding for your new business venture or to help you grow your existing venture. While creating a strong business plan is important to get the funding you’re seeking, the executive summary is what will get your prospective investors to continue reading. The executive summary is what will get your plan and your business noticed.

Plum Alley is a site for female entrepreneurs that allows innovators to crowdfund, connect with markets, shop great products and obtain advice.

FundAnything is a crowdfunding platform co-founded by Donald Trump that lets you raise money for anything with minimal fees involved.

Planwise helps you plan for the future by making sense of your financial data with simple, straightforward graphical visualizations.

Sharedesk is an online platform for finding or sharing all types of workspace.

Quip: Is a brand new collaborative document editor and word processor. It’s streamlined, easy to use features, and cross platform functionality make it a great alternative to Google Docs.

Thumbtack is reinventing how people hire local services. Whether you want a tutor, or your lawn mowed; they give you quotes from pro’s in just 24 hours.

Dailyworth is a place where women can learn from professionals how their finances, goals, and lifestyle can all work together while pursuing happiness.

Clarity is connecting small business owners to established experts, like Mark Cuban, for advice on how to “make faster and better decisions” in order to expand.

Do you have an item you want to sell but don’t know how to test the market? An online store is the perfect way to share your products with the world and Goodsie will help you take your first steps.

2012 is over… long live 2013! And to welcome in this bright new year,  All My Faves – your easy guide to the Web – has once again enlisted the world’s help to hand pick the best websites of 2012. These sites may not be Facebook, Twitter or even Pinterest, but they’re some of the internet’s most interesting, unique and, well, coolest websites around… and hey, you voted for them! So without further ado, here’s our definitive review of the top 10 coolest websites: best of 2012.

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