Goals and Subgoals of This Stage
Trying to collect enough people and investment:
So that:
- we can develop the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) version of The Tool, with which:
- we can manage more, than a few dozen people, allowing us to grow
- we can start effectively automating our decisions scenarios, the first big step towards transitioning to computed decision-making
- we can start making steps towards selling The Tool (and our processes) as an ALM or a project management system, we're planning this to be our first non-investment income.
- we can improve and test our processes (the way we/the system works) on a larger group
Where "enough people and investment":
- 1-2 dozen people - depending on skills, e.g. if the team consists mostly of juniors or students, we'll need more hands, if highly skilled ones ("coding since kindergarten" fanatics), fewer are needed.
- funding which is enough for us to pay our bills and be able to fully concentrate on the project
How:
Website content:
Publishing enough - and good-enough - material so that people can understand what this is and make an informed decision whether they want to invest or contribute, iteratively upgrading it with the feedbacks coming in
Reaching people:
At first, approaching people from our contact list and expand through connections of connections, as:
- it's safer: we can trust the people more - which we need at the initial stages when it's harder to defend ourselves against actions of hostile actors (i.e. some "bad guy" joins from the internet and messes up the code, decisions, exploits holes in our security, steals, etc.)
- we don't want big publicity at the moment
We'll probably be carefully accepting people from "the internet" - although with a thorough vetting process; here we are looking for basic personality and skills, NOT papers, not even knowledge - you can learn things, we have a "student" program)