Mapping Out Your Web Startup

i never thought i'd quote happy gilmore here but there's a scene where the pro golfers are trying to give him advice and he cuts them off and says "whoa you're confusing me. just let me put the ball in the hole."

if you're a small team, just make the best possible product. don't spread yourself too thin.

Great list. I would also add a box for 'Core Values'. It might help, for instance, in computing a more accurate valuation of 'Fear' as a trade object.

Thanks Jude, nice to see that ideas like yours are considered a good fit to startups. Much of my writing/thoughts are spent on optimizing efficiency (time/enthusiasm). Heckuva map, it hits on many of the "virtual landing points" that new businesses can setup to bring in customers/users. I was a little long winded/philosophical but did my best to describe some of the landing points here: http://www.victusspiritus.com/2009/05/11/how-web-marketing-w...

I'm sorry but I didn't get a lot out of this diagram.

Is there supposed to be some kind of relationship or definition between either the boxes or the groups of boxes? To me it looks like a brainstorm of the facets of business put into little boxes and then grouped by topic area.

Is there some sort of structure beyond that? I mean, the boxes inside the "engines" aren't put into any special relationship with each other and the groups all have arrows pointing to the other groups. There's a "funnel" symbol, but then every large group has one, and it's not connected to anything to be funneled.

Perhaps it was so simple I missed it.

I think the "Core product" should be slightly bigger/more important ;)

Nice diagram though.

Excellent bulletin board material! A picture really can say a thousand words.

Also pretty eye opening. I've been spending 80% of my time in one box. I'll have to rethink my perspective. Thanks, Jude.

awesome diagram, love it