Christian Osgood says copy a proven business model first, master it like following a barbecue recipe exactly, then innovate once you understand how it works. You'll reach financial success faster by building on what already works instead of inventing from scratch.
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Do not iterate or make your own business plan, um, until you've already done things that you know has worked for other people. He's good. One more analogy on this, because I love the question. This is a good little mini lesson here, I think. I really like to barbecue. If you are cooking, you never deviate from the recipe the first, second, or third time you make it. You get really good at following the recipe. Then when you know what it should taste like, you can add your own seasoning, spices, mess with the cook time, and start iterating and and now you have your own custom recipe. It's the exact same thing for business. Just copy what everyone else is doing that you know works until you're good at it. Then you can spice it up and write your own business plan. But if you want like the secrets to all business, just find people who already know the recipe, copy the recipe exactly, you're gonna make a ton of money.