Investor, President & CEO at Retina Labs
My co-founder and I are down to the short straws on a new start-up. We've vetted several ideas and are down to a few. We feel that 2 are potentially home runs but they're very different. One is a pure B2B play that can entirely disrupt a very large, economically important segment of the freight transportation sector. But the requirements phase is going to take some time to nail down the scope so we get the product feature set right. The other idea is highly disruptive. It's a "new paradigm" for something (sorry I can't say more about it) that's both B2C (consumption side) and B2B (supply side).
I'm actually thinking about doing both. The pure B2B one is going to take some time to scope, design, build and to gain a modest level of traction to prove the concept. The new paradigm one, while highly unique, is actually pretty simple to build technically speaking. Think how simple SnapChat is. That's what we're talking about.
So is it crazy to do both simultaneously? I have the bandwidth and with a few additional dev resources we can execute both and get the first new paradigm product out in 3 to 4 months. It's one of these "win big or fail fast" type of things that just might be worth the gamble.
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