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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

Me : Product definition, use cases, feature list, wireframes, comps, really whatever you have. what format would you and the developer want that in? In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price.

Develop 354
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6 Cost-Cutting Recommendations For New Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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Entrepreneurs Today Don’t Need A Big Budget To Start

Startup Professionals Musings

It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex custom development project, usually costing a million dollars or more. For example, if you have no technical background, you probably can’t create or sell an enterprise software product for a low price, even today.

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

So, definition: when I talk about a business plan I’m not talking about a 40-page Word document outlining your market approach. That died with waterfall software development. Do you really want to spent $100k building a product to discover through Customer Development that the market is too small?

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Domain Experience Gives Entrepreneurs an Unfair Advantage

Both Sides of the Table

So sticking to my definition of “attributes for success&# it had to be my Top 11 +1 rather than a Top 12. We made lots of assertions about what features we thought people would want, how to price them and how to overcome the objections that people have to managing data in the cloud. Made ME laugh, anyways.