How do you define your startup vision and strategy?

Question

As a technical founder I find talking about strategy and long term planning a waste of time, I am driven by what needs to be done on a day by day basis. I know this is not the best approach long term, so keen to hear how other technical, goal driven people work on defining their company strategies and visions. Once defined how do you use them?

tanylak · Accepted Answer

Things change at a rapid pace in startups. So long term planning could be seen as useless. However, one could argue that without long term planning it'll be extremely difficult to build anything.
So you must have a vision. What is it that you trying to build?
Then the step after that would be build something you can get in front of users and get feedback.
That's your first 3-month strategy
Second 3-month strategy would be to build on that. Build the prototype and show it to more users.
After you've figured out the product a little better. You can start doing longer term planning. 6-month plan would include building a product further, getting feedback, getting first beta users, building a marketing engine.
You should always plan if not for anything else but to keep you on track. Even if it's the wrong direction, with a plan you'll know sooner than if you just keep wondering around with purpose.