Work on your story. What is it you're trying to solve?

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Your story will be one of the most important components of your business.

• [x] Search the market and see what is missing in the market.
• Research on the following items:
  • [x] How do people buy their stock?
  • [x] What's the most common regret people have? Link
  • [x] What's the most common mistake people make when it comes to buying a stock? Link1 Link2 Link3
  • [x] What's the most common thing people would love/hate to see on financial analysis website?
  • [x] Your competitors?
  • [ ] What's is you are trying to solve that others don't get it?
• [x] Talk with Shariq about your story.
• [x] Talk with Shiv about your story.
• [x] Research about SeekingAlpha.
• [ ] Talk with Tanay about your story.
• [ ] Try to see if you can setup a meeting with David Sacks, Naval, Eric Ries(Lean Startup), Chamath, Paul Graham, etc.
• [ ] Put down your story into the main page of the website.
• [ ] Who are your first 10 customers?

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Items to be displayed on valuecumulation. These are either Marketing material or materials related to the actual product itself.

• [ ] What's missing when it comes to financial analysis websites?
  • Data customization: Data on specific sector, industries, geographies
  • Analysis Tools: Better charting and technical analysis tools
  • User experience:Many financial data sources can be overwhelming or difficult to navigate, particularly for novice investors. A well-designed user interface and user experience can be critical for engaging and retaining users.
  • AI:Using AI to analyze financial data
  • Mobile Optimization: With the growing use of mobile devices, it's essential for financial websites to be optimized for mobile use. Providing a mobile-friendly interface
  • Education and training: Many people are new to financial markets and need education to help them make informed decisions
  • Data visualization:Financial data can be complex and overwhelming, and many investors prefer visualizations to help them understand the data. Providing data visualization tools, such as charts, graphs, and heatmaps, can help investors analyze and interpret financial data more easily
• [ ] What is it people would love to see in the financial analysis tools and services. According to JD Powers and Fidelity Bank Rate and Personal Capital and Sales Force surveys. Here are what people would like to see:
  • User and mobile Friendliness: Investor would like to navigate in a user friendly space where everything is intuitive where they don't have to crack a code in order to learn about something.
  • Personalized investment insights
  • Customizable dashboard that provides personalized experience that includes access to tailored content, customized alerts and notifications, and personalized product recommendations. This allows the users to focus on things that matter to them the most.
  • Intuitive and intractable tools and graphs that can help users to analyze financial data. This can be very helpful for people who don't have a great finance background
• [ ] What is it people dislike about financial analysis tools:
  • Security Concerns. Javelin Strategy and Research
  • Difficult to navigate through the website. Nerdwallet
  • Information overload. Morning Consult
  • Lack of personalization. Ernst & Young
• [ ] Common investing mistakes: Chasing the trends and not following facts, letting emotions rule not facts, Not Understanding the Investment, Not doing due diligence(at VC we make it fun), reacting to the media and not facts.
• [ ] Enjoy a month/week or three month of free access.
• [ ] Comparison mode. Comparing performance of companies in the same industry.
• [ ] Making finance transparent.
• [ ] No advertisement or cluttering. A private and personalized space. Focus on metrics(Another better name) that matter to you. Customize to metrics that you care about.
• [ ] Intuitive UI
• [ ] Fast, every metric on the tip of your fingers
• [ ] Information about each metric. You're not left alone.
• [ ] Transparent financing. Making finance easy and understandable.
• [ ] AI assisted tools. Something that people can refer to as a reliable source. Something that doesn’t compromise its own profit for the sake of making money. Something that only cares about providing correct information to people no matter what. If you look at apple it only cares about peoples privacy no matter what kind of gain it can get from people. The only thing that I should care about is educating and giving the right information to people no matter what. Making finance transparent
• [ ] Not giving in to the fad. If you look at all the companies in the following list, they pay too much attention to the trend. Instead the focus should be on financials of the company and what the management is doing. Is the management long term thinker? Is the company financially sound? What does the number say? (Talk with facts if you want to bring in the name of the following list)
  • XE: Foreign Exchange
  • Yahoo! Finance
  • Google Finance
  • Bloomberg
• [ ] A rationalized way to look at companies and how they are performing. This is a website for people who need to buy companies based on their performance rather than public mania.
• [ ] A new way to look at Balance Sheet. A picture worth a 1000 words. Show them plots of performance instead of pure numbers that we see on a lot of websites.
• [ ] Each year, millions of people lose their savings and hard work in the market. We want to minimize the impact of market volatility on your savings, that’s why we are building this platform.
• [ ] A more intelligent way of financial analysis
• [ ] Something that helps them to avoid noise, crowd, and make up your mind by data.
• [ ] We believe in free markets and in a truly free market, consumers and users should be provided with the right metrics and data in order to make their financial decisions.
• [ ] Carta for stock ownership???