Ideas on how not to get lost in a forest of ideas!

One of the most common problems that startups face is the inability to nail down on a core focus or a core offering that might have the potential of attracting users. Every startup founder has experienced this at some level ---<em]]>You walk into a brainjam session with your founding team thinking that you have everything crystal clear in your head, and you walk out completely fuzzy and out of focus. Worst still, every brainjam session seems to bring in angles you didn't think of... and now you are faced with the challenge of figuring out what is it exactly that you are doing. What's at play here? Is this desirable? How do you balance time spent in creating the full scope of the product, vs coding the initial working prototype that gives the much-needed comfort?At E2E Networks, we are faced with this very challenge on a regular basis --- whenever we have an idea or product that we need to architect and scope out, we always have to walk the fine balance between product scope and delivery.To tackle the problem, we have laid down a few ground rules: