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Young, three-person, bootstrapped enterprise-focused startup, finishing up work on our backend about to begin development of our API, frontend, and possibly Chatter/Yammer integration. Hopefully incorporating in Nevada in the next week or two.

Looking to launch our product in a few months, want to come up with a good six-month roadmap for what we need to accomplish.

Recognize that this is a somewhat open-ended question, and that one size probably does not fit all. But since none of us have done a startup before, does anybody have any advice for what should be included on this kind of roadmap to lauch?

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Ideally, it would be something like this:

  1. Idea
  2. Customer validation
  3. Purchase promise from customer(s) (ideally contracts)
  4. Build MVP
  5. Customer feedback
  6. Iterate product

  7. Repeat 5 & 6 infinitely

    7.1 Keep selling

    7.2 Watch bank account grow

From the phrasing of your question, I assume that 2 & 3 haven't been done, in which case, make them a priority, then follow the rest of the list.

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Related question: Is bootstrap a startup development methodology? – blunders Aug 13 '12 at 11:53
Thanks for this. It definitely sounds like we are right in the 2-4 phase of our development -- is there any literature out there that drills into these phases at all? – fox Aug 14 '12 at 1:37
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Check out all or any of: "The Lean Startup" - Eric Ries, "The Startup Owners Manual" - Steve Blank, "Runnings Lean" - Ash Maurya. – Nick Stevens Aug 14 '12 at 10:18

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