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As a software entrepreneur building a startup means lots of things. One thing you’ll get used to is talking to your potential customers to get a feel for what they want. You wouldn’t want to invest the time and money into your world-changing idea only to have your target customers reject your baby. So, in addition to being a business owner, startup entrepreneur, money raising guru (rainmaker), and tax expert (yes, you become a tax expert), you also have to be a psychologist.

One thing you can do is to gather a bunch of your potential customers together and ask them what they want. Kindof hard to do if you don’t have a clear idea of what your world-changing software application is supposed to do for your customer. So very early in the startup phase of your software startup you’ll want to make a complete list of the features your software will have. Describe them in as much detail as possible. We talk about this at length in previous podcasts.

Then take that list of features and “analyze” them to get a list of Business Rules. This is the subject of Episode 6.