Do you have to create a business plan before starting the actual business?

I have done some courses and seminars on Internet marketing and I am sure that people are making money on the Internet. I can find tools and how to guides for Internet marketing and I can work out how to use them. I need to work out what to sell on the...

Hello. I just got my MBA from harvard business school, got my undergrad from Cornell, and have taken many business management courses. I currently have job offer at Boston Consulting Group as a consultant. I will be working in NYC, and I get to travel...

Starting a t-shirt business and need a tax I.D. # to order supplies. I will have a website and take orders on the internet, etc. Not sure exactly what steps I need to take and what type of business entity to create. I am not going to really have any...

I am looking to start another new business and the major lesson I learned from my last successful venture was to create a core team starting at the concept phases who would continue to contribute up to the first equity event and then hopefully contribute...

Hey im 16 yrs old & ive always aspired to become and entrepreneur & ive thought up a brilliant unique product that supermarkets could use, ive starting writing up a business plan & im gonna get a loan from the bank but my problem is with...

... and no, a marketing plan is not simply a subset of your business plan, though they are related.

What is the Democrat's plan to create private sector jobs also since big business creates Jobs not just small business what is the Democrat's plan to create Jobs among big businesses ?

I am trying to create a business plan for my automotive garage to get a loan. I was recently given the business and I would like to do some major repairs and buy some new eqipment but I need to take out a loan and I would like to create a really good...

Question revised from "What service offers a fine deal for helping individuals evaluate a business idea, create a business plan, prepare for, and launch a startup?"