You should look into the true story of how the founder of Federal Express went to Las Vegas to gamble in order to keep the company alive during a financial crisis... and it worked! So, a business plan written as a college paper was proven once the seed capital was sufficient enough to cross the volume of the business into the efficiency needed for a profitable return.
Cee-It, NBRI actually did sell gold production forward, the amount was somewhere between $100-$150k, as no production, NBRI had to repay the money back with interest last year.