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Don’t Let Too Many Features Ruin Your Next Product

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more new business solutions than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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More Features Kill More Startups Than Lack of Money

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Five Rules to Prevent Startup Project Scope Creep

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Watch Out For This Insidious Startup Project Malady

Startup Professionals Musings

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Lock down the sign-off authority.

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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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Entrepreneurs Confuse Product and Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

A business plan is an “outward facing” document for external investors, or for C-level executives within your own company. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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Intellectual Property – Worthless To A Startup, Priceless To A Big Dumb Company

InfoChachkie

There is a common misconception that an idea can be protected by documenting it, placing it in an envelope and then mailing it to yourself. Underlying this presumption is the belief that if the envelop is unopened, the postmark will “prove” the date the idea was conceived (or at least when it was documented). Provisional Approach.

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