Training Wheels
A busy first day with a packed schedule which was great. Apart from spending time getting to know each other, we tried to set out some guiding principles for the project and started to think about how we would structure the next six months. Mike mentioned that many of the experts that he and Ludwig met in San Francisco commented that the first thing they would do is ask for more time to complete the project. That won’t be happening for us!
Looking at the schedule and seeing how we will have to rely on outside developers and others made me quite anxious. I’m ready to dive in now and want to start exchanging ideas but we do need to make sure we are all on the same page and we have to set out a clear structure about how we will work on the project. We divided the task into four basic items: setting up a framework for how we develop ideas; brainstorming and choosing the best idea(s); developing the idea(s); and then writing the business plan and presenting the finished product. We figure the last part will take about two weeks and the first part will take one week. But we don’t know how long it will take to come up with a good idea and without knowing what the idea will be at this point it’s hard to gauge how long it will take to develop! What if we can’t come up with a good idea after one month?
