IMO? 1) Choose business or educational. Pick one and completely walk away from the other. Businesses (Generally Speaking) don't care about classroom training.

IMO? 1) Choose business or educational. Pick one and completely walk away from the other. Businesses (Generally Speaking) don't care about classroom training. Educational Institutions (Again, see above) don't care about learner org charts. 2) Embrace (#@%!) SCORM. It's a requirement. It just is. Just don't base your domain after it. Use SCORM as an old api, but not as a model for your database. 3) Be multi-tenant from day 1 This is really hard to get right, but I think it's really important. There's too many solutions out there that require installing the entire software suite and not enough SaaS offerings. 4) I guess at this point do standard startup stuff Find companies (or universities) that are looking to create a learning platform and reduce their requirements down to something that resembles a platform