getting-started.md

Getting Started

Your Objective: Product-Market Fit

Why?

Product-Market Fit === Success

• Marc Andressen

Steps

• Outline a Rough Vision
• Build a Community
• Start Selling
• Prior to Commitments, Define a Business Model
• List Risks
• Build a Master Plan

Outline a Rough Vision

Bullets work best:

• Problem
• Customer
• Solution

Build a Community

Connect w/ potential

• Customers
• Investors
• Contributors

Start Selling

Stay lean, use...

• Landing Pages
• Mockups
• Your Mouth

Prior to Commitments, Define a Business Model

• Share for feedback

List Risks

• Team
• Techincal
• Market
• Product
• Sales
• Marketing
• Distribution
• Customer

Identify Key Metrics

• Set up a spreadsheet to track them

Build a Master Plan

Synthesize all your research into a document depicting the future

Where to Go From Here

• Fundraising
• Finances