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Product Roadmap - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Outside Investors
        
        Angel Investeors
        
        Technology background investors, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of your plan or a copy just to remind themselves what they invested in
      - Self Funded
    - - Target: aim at smaller customers, middle-sized non-technology company
      - How to figure out what customers want? Watch them.
      - The real problem for all failed startups: customers didn't want the product.
    - - Good number of founders: 2-4
        
        Also ask what employee has signed. Previous IP history.
        
        Sometimes, people split off and start another company doing the same thing.
        
        Get all the founders to sign something agreeing that everyone's ideas belong to this company, and that this company is going to be everyone's only job.
        
        MBA is not mandatory
        
        Business people is not mandatory
      - Startups often start around universities. It's where smart people meet.
      - Truly smart people say "I don't know" "Maybe you're right," and "I don't understand x well enough."
      - "Animal" people are needed in startups
    - - True Value of ideas: as questions for the people who had them to continue thinking about.
      - Not transferable, cannot be handed to someone for execution
      - Meaning: Offer people better technology than they have now