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Usually some form of business plan that amounts to sanctions / regulatory avoidance presented with a straight face to a panel of VCs / investors / potential partners. Then the underlying structure is a Ponzi scheme.
My strategy so far has been to ask "how is your business plan different from just doing crimes?" with a voice loud enough that people outside the meeting room can overhear -- like in some cartoon where some character says all the quiet parts loudly and the loud parts quietly.
Hopefully with time, people will stop bringing this kind of crud to the table, or at least stop inviting me to the meetings.