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One Year Plan
This outline represents Moranda's one year strategic outlook.
The first version of this document was drafted on June 18, 2016.
All milestones based on a deadline of end of June 2017.
Get technical founder with strong knowledge of back end architecture design
- Knowledge of sys ops (Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud, etc)
- Front end experience - strong Javascript Skills
- interest (and preferably experience) in AI / NLP
- willingness to take substantial risk
- proactive
Two approaches to bringing on strong tech talent
1 - Contractor
Contract out to a potential founder who is unwilling to forego income. 4 month contract with option to transfer income at end of contract to substantial stake in the company (with standard vesting and cliff agreements).
requires funding
Raise from:
- Young Founders Fund
- Andy
- Friends and Family (convertible note agreements in N36 drive)
2 - Immediate Cofounder
Subject to 1 year cliff and reverse vesting agreement
Potential Founders:
- Luke Switliki (????)
- Shawn (???)
Add Academic to BoD
The problems we want to solve will most likely require in-house NLP and AI intellectual property. When being assessed by Investors / Customers, we need to reinforce the perception that we are the right team for this problem.
Potential Chairs (Ordered by relevance):
- Pascal Poupoart - UW
- Gerald Penn - UofT
- Chrysanna Di Marco - UW
- Peter Van Beek - UW
Create strong brand recognition
Have our names known in the field of bot design and bot creation.
- Write insightful and innovative articles about every aspect of bots, not just design.
TODO: 8 Month Plan, 6 Month Plan, 4 Month Plan, 2 Month Plan, 1 Month Plan