New ventures begin with an entirely empty slate: no products, no customers, no desks, no organization charts, no established procedures for creating value.  Only blank pages and empty office space.  This is part of the exhilaration, the chance to do things better and more simply than the last time. Of course, your founding team has lots of experience: ideas about how things get done.  As the product champion, you’ll almost immediately be defining what your startup makes and how it gets delivered. Generically, “processes”. Continue reading →