Software Startup - Getting Started

What you'll learn
Make the big decisions needed to get going with your startup
Understand the research you need to do in detail into your market, competitors and customers
Produce the full set of documents needed by developers, investors and customers
Learn how to get started setting up your business entity
Requirements
No prior skills or experience needed
You just need an idea that you want to turn into an app and a software startup
No additional money is needed to complete the course
Description
Learn how to get started turning your idea into a software product and startup business!Save thousands of dollars by taking the important steps and doing them properly to lay the foundations for your successful startup.What you will learn:The research and analysis you need to do into your potential market and competitors.The big decisions you need to make such as your partnership and funding strategies.Getting your business up and running.How to create the documents you need in order to communicate your idea to others such as investors and customers.How to create the documents you need in order to get your software designed, built, tested and launched.This course covers the first two modules of the S5 Methodology.In the 'Sound Preparation' module, you will cover:Current employment - What you can, cannot, should and must do if you are currently employedMarket research - How to research the market you are planning to enter so you are better placed to start your market fitCompetitive analysis - How to find out about your potential competitors to help make business and product decisionsSWOT analysis - Succinct instructions and a worksheet for identifying and using your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threatsPartners - Should you go it alone or work with one or more partners? This topic discusses this important decision in depthInvestment - Do you need investment (or other form of funding)? This topic helps you decide and shows you how to get started with thisElevator pitch - An elevator pitch is so important to get right yet so many don't. This topic shows you the formula for creating a great pitchBusiness basics - There's a lot to do setting up your business. This topic takes you through the main steps, showing you what, why and howGetting legal advice - You will most likely need legal advice for various things. This topic explains this and how to prepare for getting that advicePlan of action - Creating a plan of action is so important yet rarely done. Use the template to create yours so you can stay on top of everything you need to doIn the 'Structured Documentation' module, you will cover:Brain dump - Have fun creating a brain dump of all your thoughts, ideas and questions. Then use this to start structuring your business and software documentationDocument register - You will create many documents which maximise your chances of success - as well as keeping costs down. Keep track of these with a document registerQuestion register - There will be a lot of unanswered questions and unmade decisions initially. That's OK - especially if you track them properly with a question registerSolution overview - Although easy to write, this is a very important document, used for many purposes to communicate your idea with investors, customers, partners, developers and moreUsers & organisations - Your software will almost certainly have users and may have the concept of organisations. Lay firm foundations by defining these properlyConcepts document - Not often written, this document gives you a glossary and explains all the concepts of your product, saving on miscommunications and inefficiencies that will arise without itUser stories - A really easy way of defining what your software needs to do. This topic shows you how to do this properly so your software contains everything you needMilestones - There will be more than one version of your software as it evolves. Keep track of these and communicate properly with all stakeholdersPlatforms - Web-only? Mobile-only? Both? It is critical to decide where you will start and the details of this. This important topic shows you howNotifications - Write a very short description about the lesson here so that your visitors know what they are going to learn in this lessonFunctional & non-functional requirements - This is the culmination of all the work done up to now to create your comprehensive functional requirements document using the extensive templates providedThe course contains 18 template documents and worksheets that will accelerate your progress and make sure you end up with complete, high-quality documentation.
Overview
Section 1: Getting Started
Lecture 1 Welcome
Lecture 2 Introduction
Section 2: Sound Preparation
Lecture 3 Sound preparation overview
Lecture 4 Current employment
Lecture 5 Market research
Lecture 6 Competitive analysis
Lecture 7 SWOT analysis
Lecture 8 Partners
Lecture 9 Investment
Lecture 10 Elevator pitch
Lecture 11 Business basics
Lecture 12 Getting legal advice
Lecture 13 Plan of action
Section 3: Interlude
Lecture 14 Interlude
Section 4: Structured Documentation
Lecture 15 Structured Documentation Overview
Lecture 16 Brain Dump
Lecture 17 Document Register
Lecture 18 Question Register
Lecture 19 Solution Overview
Lecture 20 Users & Organisations
Lecture 21 Concepts Document
Lecture 22 User Stories
Lecture 23 Milestones
Lecture 24 Platforms
Lecture 25 Notifications
Lecture 26 Requirements - Introduction
Lecture 27 Functional Requirements
Lecture 28 Non-Functional Requirements
Section 5: Next Steps
Lecture 29 Next Steps
Prospective software startup founders,Early-stage software startup founders


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