Regarding business plans, Lane at Deepleap (an actual startup) has some oh-so-helpful advice:
most of the people these days — and they’re pretty much all vcs [ venture capitalists ] — recommend you don’t bother with a full biz plan, and just do a 6-8 page executive summary, since it’s all they’re going to read, anyway.
Makes me wonder if I can get a million dollars in funding per page :)