{"id":899,"date":"2012-01-25T06:47:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T12:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/?p=899"},"modified":"2012-01-29T00:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T06:12:26","slug":"it-business-start-up-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bateru.com\/news\/2012\/01\/it-business-start-up-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Business Start Up Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>IT Business Start up Guide<\/h2>\n<p><i>By Larry Battle<\/i><br \/>\nThe following are 10 simple steps that you can take to successfully turn your idea into a marketable product or service. This guide is more geared to software startups.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Create a Business Plan &#038; Product Document<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tConstruct a product or service that solves a problem.<br \/>\n\t\tVerify with others that the product or service is marketable.<br \/>\n\t\tOr find at least 3 potential customers willing to buy your product or service.<br \/>\nNote that you need to involve at least one customer throughout the entire start up process.<br \/>\n\t\tProcess: Develop a document that describes the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your product or service<\/li>\n<li>Audience \/ Marketplace<\/li>\n<li>Competition<\/li>\n<li>Schedule with deadlines<\/li>\n<li>Financial Projections<\/li>\n<li>Startup cost<\/li>\n<li>Business Plan (How are you going to make money?)<\/li>\n<li>Market and Sells Strategy<\/li>\n<li>Limitations<\/li>\n<li>Team Members<\/li>\n<li>Exit Plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoytcBiOpDI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Create a Requirements Document<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tDefine what your product or service does, what it come with and how you&#8217;re going to make the customer happy.<br \/>\n\t\tProcess: Develop a document that contains the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Product Name<\/li>\n<li>Deliverables (what is it you&#8217;re making)<\/li>\n<li>Customer Requirements (What are the customer wants)<\/li>\n<li>Functional Requirements (What are the functionalities)<\/li>\n<li>Environment \/ System Requirements (What will this work with)<\/li>\n<li>External components<\/li>\n<li>Diagrams for Overview, Software and \/or hardware<\/li>\n<li>Hardware components<\/li>\n<li>Limitations<\/li>\n<li>Assumptions<\/li>\n<li>Team Roles<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NXR_O_Hwuws\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k0wxJl4bLv8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Create a Architecture Document<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tThis documents converts the requirement\/product\/services into simple abstract layers.<br \/>\n\t\tProcess: Develop a document that contains the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Programming Language \/ Framework \/ Software Used<\/li>\n<li>Layers<\/li>\n<li>Customer Requirements to Layers Matrix<\/li>\n<li>Diagrams of Layers and Data Flow<\/li>\n<li>Simple Data flow<\/li>\n<li>Use Cases<\/li>\n<li>Simple GUI Mock-up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Create a Detailed Design Document<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tThis document will discuss the sub-layers within the layers and define data-flow between them.<br \/>\n\t\tProcess: Develop a document that contains the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Layers<\/li>\n<li>Sub-layers<\/li>\n<li>Diagrams of Layers, sub-layers and Data Flow<\/li>\n<li>Data Flow Definitions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Create a Test Plan Document<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tCreate Test cases.<br \/>\n\t\tProcess: Develop a document that contains the following information.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>System Test Plan<\/li>\n<li>Integration Test Plan<\/li>\n<li>Unit Tests Plan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SO_Pl7Khiw4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LsPIjyFpSKk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Develop a working prototype of your Product or Service<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tDevelop a prototype of the working system.<br \/>\n\t\tI prefer to use test driven development (TDD).<br \/>\n\t\tTDD steps are to Write a test case, watch it fail, program it to pass, re-factor.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Convert your product from beta to a final product \/ service<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tWork with beta testers and customers to improve your product \/ service to a final working product or service.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOhEWDwwq2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Perform System Verification<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tCheck to see if the system works and have fulfilled all the requirements.\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Get ready for release<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tCreate the following items<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Product\/Service Packaging<\/li>\n<li>License and warranty<\/li>\n<li>Support information<\/li>\n<li>Company website release page<\/li>\n<li>Demo setup<\/li>\n<li>Payment System<\/li>\n<li>User guide and other documentation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t<b>Release and start marketing<\/b><br \/>\n\t\tRelease to the public, market the product\/service and rake in the cash.<br \/>\n\t\tYou can do stuff like &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Video Demonstrations<\/li>\n<li>Buy Ads<\/li>\n<li>Press Release<\/li>\n<li>Attention getting stunts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdmH7yqYUVk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gza8dvN8Hkc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Done.\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=baterucom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1605501115&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT 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