farzal.ecommerce.spring2008.iba.khi.pk

on request from Sonia .. the guide can be downloaded from here

Good luck - and see you on Thursday.

GUIDE

The final submission guide; this is only a guide.

For different groups, different sections will have different level of importance.

These are things we have covered throughout our semester, so I didn’t see a need for sending this out. However on popular request, here is it.

Implementation

1. Have you gone out and developed your product/solution/service?
   1. Where is the service hosted
   2. Where are you going to host the application

i. If currently you demo it on laptop, where would you have hosted it in ideal world? What cost? With which hosting service?

1. 3. What technology stack did you use to implement your technology? Why? What was the best option and what would it take to implement using the best technology stack?

Written

1. Executive Summary
   1. About the project/company
   2. Mission, Key to Success
2. Setting the base
   1. Define partners, who they are
   2. Define customers, who they are
   3. Define source of revenue, major cost areas, etc
3. Technology
   1. Database structure
   2. Technical flow diagrams
   3. Communication flows
   4. Explanation and reasoning for technology stack used
   5. Use cases and user work-flow (preferably diagrammatic)
4. Execution Plan
   1. Supply Chain
   2. Information gathering
   3. Marketing
   4. Sales
   5. Things to outsource, ASP, BPO, SaaS, etc
5. Financials
   1. Areas of Revenue, and forecasting for 12 to 36 months
   2. Areas of Costs (monthly burn) and forecasting for 12 to 36 months
   3. Profits (losses) and P&L forecasting for 36 months
   4. Initial fund raising requirements
   5. Plugging the gap between revenues and costs until you become profitable
6. Legal
   1. Team and company structure, board of directors, etc

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