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ChangeThis Tasks Third, create another comprehensive list—this time of the major tasks that are necessary to design, manufacture, sell, ship, and support your product or service. These are necessary to build an organization, though they are not as critical as the seven milestones. They include: • renting office space • finding key vendors • setting up accounting and payroll systems • filing legal documents • purchasing insurance policies Continuously track…assumptions, and when they prove false, react to them quickly. The point of the list of tasks is to understand and appreciate the totality of what your organization has to accomplish, and to not let anything slip through the cracks in the early, often euphoric days. | issue 001.01 | i U | h 21/34 f