Market Research: understand the customer need qualitatively and quantitatively

Marketing: formulating a response to a customer need

Business development: what partnerships will the venture need to execute its strategy?

Building a forecast and sales plan (sales activity, productivity, etc.)

• Sales forecasting
• Creating a sales plan
  

R&D Management: 

Operations management:

Process and infrastructure management:

Budgeting:

People management: is the team capable of executing the venture's strategy, what are the needs, who should be hired and when?