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02 Jul 09
How to Write a Good Business Plan - WSJ.com
Successful business plans that impress investors are seldom written on the back of a napkin. They include a logical statement of a problem and its solution; hard evidence; and straight talk about the risks and challenges involved. Follow these Do’s and Don’ts." /><meta name="subsection" content="Special" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
14 Mar 09
Painless Functional Specifications - Part 4: Tips - Joel on Software
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one of the easiest ways to be funny is to be specific when it's not called for
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The mistake is that when you write a spec, in addition to being correct, it has to be understandable
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Painless Functional Specifications - Part 2: What's a Spec? - Joel on Software
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A functional specification describes how a product will work entirely from the user's perspective. It doesn't care how the thing is implemented. It talks about features. It specifies screens, menus, dialogs, and so on.
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A technical specification describes the internal implementation of the program. It talks about data structures, relational database models, choice of programming languages and tools, algorithms, etc.
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Painless Functional Specifications - Part 1: Why Bother? - Joel on Software
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The most important function of a spec is to design the program. Even if you are working on code all by yourself, and you write a spec solely for your own benefit, the act of writing the spec -- describing how the program works in minute detail -- will force you to actually design the program
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when you design your product in a human language, it only takes a few minutes to try thinking about several possibilities, revising, and improving your design
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26 Nov 08
Seth Godin article - Be a Better Liar. Move Ahead 1 Marketing News and events
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Either you’re going to tell stories that spread, or you will become irrelevant
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If you are not authentic, you will get the benefit of only one sale, not 100. The cost of your inauthentic deception is just too high.
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