2005 Business Plan Intellectual Property Software Developers 
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OCTOBER 23, 2010
March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.
Software By Rob
AUGUST 18, 2010
at 1:59 pm i do believe it depends on your business model. as long as there’s some sort of try-before-you-buy, i think you can safely leave a fully-supported free version off the business plan. Should you even be bundling into plans, or should you meter by users or MB or proposals sent or whatever? Otherwise, no.
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