Releasing your business plan into the public?
stuff4ben: If anything, exposing your business plan will allow others to give you feedback on it.  You'll get to hear wonderful things like "your plan sucks, you need to x and y or you'll never succeed, etc...".  Hope you have a tough skin and can take criticism.Seriously though, unless it is a really innovative idea that will revolutionize the world, then it's probably best to let others in on it.  Who knows, maybe you'll get some positive feedback too.  It may also prevent you from wasting time on something that won't work or just isn't feasible or may have already been done exactly how you want to do it.