Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2016

Entrepreneurs need to document a process of responding to a market need, sizing opportunity, assigning a specific business model, and planning for marketing, sales, and customer satisfaction. Typically some production and delivery is outsourced, requiring formal contracts and documentation. Solution development and delivery.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Like it or not, you are now entering the dreaded realm of specifying and documenting “formal business processes.” Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

Of course, they can outsource part of the work or hire employees, but that approach means more time and money to manage the work, which they don’t have. Jointly define major milestones and key metrics for the startup. Negotiate and document roles early, including who is the boss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even if you are doing the work yourself, you need to document requirements, features, metrics, and milestones. If you are contracting or outsourcing, this is even more important. Product development process. Otherwise you will find yourself a year later being no closer to a product that you were yesterday, with no idea why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

When the business starts to scale, you need documented processes and people with the right skills and training who can do the right work without you. As the business grows, you must learn to hire and train employees, and utilize outsourcing in non-core areas to keep up with the volume and detailed expertise required. It’s a big change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Document and commit to specific goals. Define and use metrics to measure your progress. Yet too many entrepreneurs approach business building as a standardized process that can be learned from textbooks, or outsourced to professionals. Lack of focus only confuses customers and dilutes your scarce time and resources.

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