This week has been much more productive then last. We had our second Advisory meeting, a week later then we were supposed to but we felt like we needed that time to get organized and make greater strides with our prototype. The meeting was very productive, especially to make it more explicit of what we want from them. It was also interesting to see the dynamic of the different advisory board members grow and to see some of the become more confident. Although no issues arouse I feel like we are starting to move past the storming phase of a team development on to a norming phase.
The greatest thing I got out of the meeting is very clearly determining our objectives and set very explicit rules of what is real and what is hypothetical. This point was brought by Jim. Jim has a lot of hands on experience with starting businesses and was having a hard time determining what was real and what was not. He felt if this was a real venture the first issue we would have to address would be financing. Although this is not how we will be facing this project it is a very important thing to be aware of when I do start my own business.