How to Create a Product Vision for Your Startup (That Actually Drives Decisions)

Every founder has a product vision. It’s clear in their head — the product they want to build, the market they want to serve, the problem they’re going to solve. The difficulty is rarely the product vision itself. It’s that the vision usually exists as two separate things: a technical picture of what could be built and a commercial picture of what the market will pay for. Those two pictures live in different people’s heads, get articulated in different ways, and point in subtly different directions.

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This was a perspective I missed during our fundraising activities. How much is really enough for a startup during its fundraising stages? I’ll admit that we never knew the right answer- sometimes it felt too much. At other times, it felt like we weren’t asking enough. The question is – where do we draw a line and say – this is what we need for a certain stage of the startup?