The climbing gym business is booming. By 2050, there will be more climbing gyms in America than coal mines, the alleged economic future of our country. Better start getting used to the fact that your daughter might have to work one day as a yoga instructor at a local climbing gym instead of wielding the pickaxe down in a carcinogenic mine shaft. SAD! I know. In 2018, if you aren’t using bitcoin or your tax return to begin building your own world-class indoor climbing gym empire, you may as well stick to climbing rocks outdoors because you’re just as dumb as the very rocks you’re climbing. Getting into the gym biz’, as we say in the biz’, isn’t easy. You need a “business plan,” for example. You may consider yourself a modern-day Hemingway, but not just anyone can sit down and write a solid business plan that will convince investors […]