Business Plan and Planning Exersizes

All of these exercises are performed with the goal of creating a specific case for SpeedGeek Learning, described below:

Proposed Market: Suppliers who are looking to collaborate with their potential customers in order to develop a new technology, which neither can fully define at the outset because the actual needs are not fully understood or articulated.

• Initial Exercise - Covering unmet needs, initial product specs, measurement of success, indirect competitors, and payment for services ideas.
• Response to initial exercise - Covering translations of my original ideas into "business plan lanugage" and questions about product specs vs. tools to meet product specs.
• First Stab at Statements of Specification on my Typewriter - As I have come to understand, Statements of Specification are quite a bit different from design specifications. These are the ideal and most general statements I can make about the goals of SpeedGeek Learning.
• Second draft of Statement of Specification - A few revisions from the first version.
• Specifications for Requirement and Specifications for Design (and notes) - Great revisions and notes for the way forward on this exercise. By the end we hope to have 10 Specifications for Requirement and 10 Specifications for Design.
• 3rd Draft of Specifications for Requirement - This draft focuses on simplifying the language of each statement as well as separating out the benefits from the statements themselves.
• Response to Specs and notes from Phone Call - This draft is the closest we have gotten to business speak for the requirements.
• Thinking through splitting out individual products as SpeedGeek ProductName - The Suite of SpeedGeek Tools
• "Final" version of Statements of Specification and Benefit
• Shot across the bow about the business plan as well as getting an IP lawyer
• Initial Ideas for Market and Technology Sections of a Business plan as well as one idea for the "story" of SpeedGeek Learning Usage
• Market, Technology, Management First Draft (The Kernels)
• Response to market: The two potential plays and alpha planning as a way to develop design specs and the business plan