If you havent already, go back and read these posts.

If you want to be rich, you need a crew
How to pick your million dollar crew
Starting a business is like robbing a bank - organize your crew 

You need a plan – Fail to plan and plan to fail. That is the facts jack. The more time you spend on the plan and the more time you spend on putting together your crew, the better your chances of pulling it off. BUT! If you spend too much time planning and organizing, you crew will get restless. You run the risk of your team spilling your plan to someone else or going rogue. You will wake up one day and read in the paper how the whole thing went down without you. It has happened to me. It eats you up inside when you see your big idea in the newspapers. What do you need for a plan?

Goal Strategy – You want to get in and out with bags of cash and not go to jail right? Well right that down. You need to know what you are going to do. You need a direction, a general layout of what you are trying to accomplish. It doesn’t need to be detailed, it needs to be specific.

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In the literal sense and the metaphorical sense – starting a business is exactly like robbing a bank. It is risky, confusing, exciting and dangerous and if you keep a cool head and stick to the plan – you might get out with some cash.

So, how do you plan a bank robbery (start a business)? Well this will assume that you have read the first two articles on this multi-part series – If you want to be rich then you need a crew and How to pick your million dollar crew. If you haven’t read these then you aren’t ready to read this. The first thing you need to pull off a successful job is the right crew. Continue reading ’starting a business is like robbing a bank – organize your crew’