Don't get sucked in to the all business plans aren't worth the paper they're written on parade. Sure, a 200 page document that takes you six months to write th

Don't get sucked in to the all business plans aren't worth the paper they're written on parade. Sure, a 200 page document that takes you six months to write that you work on to the exclusion of everything else? Yeah that's bad. However a short few pages on the idea, the target market, some guesstimates on sales targets, expenditure and so on is a small piece of work that in my experience can be very useful. It gives you a document to go back to as a bad line for progress. What is measured can be improved and all that jazz. Also, just taking the time to scope out your business, even at a high level, will make you think about areas of work that a founder might not otherwise consider until it's too late.