We started out a couple of months ago with a simple goal: We wanted to meet a person in 10 years, that we didn't know from before, that had our game and liked it.
This is a very good goal to start out with, but when have we succeeded? Waiting 10 years for confirmation and then decide is a long time for students about to graduate..
What we have experienced is that our goal keeps on moving further away each time we get one step closer to our current goal. Based on the feedback we have gotten, we have expanded our goal accordingly, resulting in a far more ambitiuos goal than the original one. This is of course a good thing, it keeps us on our toes, but it makes defining the point of success very complicated.
We have to decide in a relatively short while wether or not this idea is something that we want to pursue full-time. This decision will of course be based upon the question of if we're able to reach our goal. When the goal keeps moving away, this desicion is always uncertain..
What we believe is that our original goal is still the most important one. The rest is only a bonus. Wether or not we are going to continue with the idea we will find out in about 7 months, and until then we are going to run as quickly as we can, get as much as we can done, and reset our goal then.
Success? Like our professor in Boston told us: What do you want to be when you grow up?
What do we want to get out of this start-up?
When we can answer that question, defining the point of success will become easier. But there are no black and white answer to this unfortunately.. (as engineers we hate this of course..)
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