I'm founder of startup with small team of people (4 myself included). I want to ask HN, how you set up goals for the future? How far you plan in future and how detail. How you meter and achieve your goals, employers goals, team goals?
Focus on getting users and keeping them happy. Pass every decision through that filter. Right now is the only time in the potential timelines of your company where all goals and incentives are so neatly aligned (between users, employees, founders, and investors).<p>You don't need any complicated goal maintenance frameworks right now. You need to get users, keep them happy, and repeat. Otherwise, you will die. You will never reach the point where you have divergent goals between entities. So right now you have a simple goal, you don't need to think about setting others. It's a simple filter that facilitates all possible legitimate goals of a tiny startup.<p>If you have any short or medium term goals right now aside from getting users, keeping them happy, and acquiring more resources to fuel that positive feedback loop; why are you even doing a startup?
Have you ever read about the "Scrum methodology"? I think it is a good place to start...<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%29" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrum_%28software_development%2...</a><p><a href="https://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scrum_Guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.scrum.org/Portals/0/Documents/Scrum%20Guides/Scr...</a>