There are many things to do when starting a company. Find desk space, register the company, get a bank account, set up the website and all the other tasks that require different hats to be worn. If the idiom were reality, hatters and milliners would be present at every startup accelerator.
You’ll need a product or service to offer your customers. Without this you won’t be in business for long, unless you have other revenue streams or your investors or lenders are patient (they never seem to be).
Happily, you’ve probably thought of an idea for this already; you think it’s going to change the world for the better, solve someone’s problem or mitigate someone’s risk – possibly all three. So how are you going to get from A to B, where A is a headful of ideas, and B is a product in someone’s hand?
We faced this challenge when we started a company six years ago. You will need to work hard on networking throughout your journey – it’s hard to bring a product to life without a lot of help from others. That includes some of
