Someone emailed me at Thomas.tpaul@gmail.com several weeks ago and asked if he really needed to have a business plan for his start-up. It was interesting timing because I was working on one of my classes for the fall semester at Northern Arizona University called BizBlock. In BizBlock, we challenge 10 teams of seven business students to create a start-up, write a business plan and then present that business plan to a group of investors in hopes of receiving funding. A quick confession: I am a … [Read more...] about Do I Really Need a Business Plan?