We are Blue Seat Media, a startup product studio in Cincinnati making apps for baseball fans. We're more inspired by Pixar than Fox Sports and our goal is to capture the magic of baseball in an industry that is inundated with bad design and middle-aged men arguing on the radio.
Question: how do we sell this to investors? I'm a designer and the CEO. I'm good at making a product that people love but I'm bad at fundraising. We are out to make only high quality products, another hard sell to investors because high quality takes more time (money).
We have a great product that fans will absolutely love, we just need help getting it out there.
Well said. I'd like to even take it a step further and see designers and developers really, truly collaborating at every point in the process as opposed to the traditional model of designing something and handing it off to a development team. Just as bad is the model of developing a product and then handing over to a design to "make it look pretty." I'd love to see the teams all up in each other's grills from the moment of hunch to the shipped product. Very few teams, if any, work that way now (at least in Ohio) but I'd be excited to see how each could really challenge the other directly.
Thank you so much for the info. Happy to be a part of it all. I've spent the last couple of weeks reading just about everything I can get my hands on by Paul Graham and it's all great and inspiring.
Question: how do we sell this to investors? I'm a designer and the CEO. I'm good at making a product that people love but I'm bad at fundraising. We are out to make only high quality products, another hard sell to investors because high quality takes more time (money).
We have a great product that fans will absolutely love, we just need help getting it out there.