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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). 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

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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Don’t Assume Product Plans are Better Business Plans

Startup Professionals Musings

For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Enough detail is required so that someone else can build it without you (outsourcing). Skip the acronyms, write at an eighth-grade level, and talk in terms of “benefits” rather than “features.”

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10 Strategies To Find That Rare Complementary Partner

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are ten common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner.

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10 Keys To Building Unstoppable Startup Partnerships

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are ten common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner.

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10 Steps To Finding The Right Startup Co-Founder

Startup Professionals Musings

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. Yet from my own years of experience in the startup community, here are 10 common steps that have worked for other entrepreneurs: Write a "job description" for that ideal partner.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. This post is an accusation.