I like all three constraints, but while I agree with tenet "1a: write something down" I wonder if "1b: in one document that is exactly one page long" should
depend on the complexity of the project. For a small-to-medium project, one
page will be enough. For a mars flight control software system, the one pager
might have to hyperlink to a whole range of sub-specifications before starting
to build.
Tenet 2, separate tech from product is very wise. Someone in the comments people asked for example, so I'll give you one: remember Skype? It has a back-end peer-to-peer communication technology and a front-end application to make calls via HTTP and voice networks. Its smart creators incorporated the two parts in two companies, and when the front-end (Skype the application) was sold to Microsoft, they still owned the core IP company, which held the P2P communication backend technology!
Tenet 3: I can buy into that, too. I would sometimes posit more than one constraint, or a ranked list of major and minor ones. From a business point of
view, if the top tenet is hard to commercialize, if you treat it like a immutable doctrine you will by definition drive your venture into bankruptcy,
which would be a shame if one of your team has an idea for a rather dramatic
pivot that would make it easier to sell (albeit something racically different).
Example: Twitter originally was going to do something else, the "public status update" thing was apparently rather a side project ("In March, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created Twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo.").
Tenet 2, separate tech from product is very wise. Someone in the comments people asked for example, so I'll give you one: remember Skype? It has a back-end peer-to-peer communication technology and a front-end application to make calls via HTTP and voice networks. Its smart creators incorporated the two parts in two companies, and when the front-end (Skype the application) was sold to Microsoft, they still owned the core IP company, which held the P2P communication backend technology!
Tenet 3: I can buy into that, too. I would sometimes posit more than one constraint, or a ranked list of major and minor ones. From a business point of view, if the top tenet is hard to commercialize, if you treat it like a immutable doctrine you will by definition drive your venture into bankruptcy, which would be a shame if one of your team has an idea for a rather dramatic pivot that would make it easier to sell (albeit something racically different). Example: Twitter originally was going to do something else, the "public status update" thing was apparently rather a side project ("In March, Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams created Twitter, which was originally a side project stemming from the podcasting tool Odeo.").