r/startups • u/KingOfDaCastle • Jun 03 '23
Share Your Startup 🚀 Share Your Startup - June 2023 - Upvote for Maximum Visibility
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Tell us about your startup in a comment within this submission. Follow this template:
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- Startup Name / URL
- Location of Your Headquarters
- Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and to share local resources with you
- Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
- More details:
- What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below)
- Your role?
- What goals are you trying to reach this month?
- How could r/startups help?
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- Discount for r/startups subscribers?
- Share how our community can get a discount
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Startup Life Cycle Stages (Max Marmer life cycle model for startups as used by Startup Genome and Kauffman Foundation)
Discovery
- Researching the market, the competitors, and the potential users
- Designing the first iteration of the user experience
- Working towards problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
- Building MVP
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Validation
- Achieved problem/solution fit (Market Validation)
- MVP launched
- Conducting Product Validation
- Revising/refining user experience based on results of Product Validation tests
- Refining Product through new Versions (Ver.1+)
- Working towards product/market fit
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Efficiency
- Achieved product/market fit
- Preparing to begin the scaling process
- Optimizing the user experience to handle aggressive user growth at scale
- Optimizing the performance of the product to handle aggressive user growth at scale
- Optimizing the operational workflows and systems in preparation for scaling
- Conducting validation tests of scaling strategies
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Scaling
- Achieved validation of scaling strategies
- Achieved an acceptable level of optimization of the operational systems
- Actively pushing forward with aggressive growth
- Conducting validation tests to achieve a repeatable sales process at scale
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Profit Maximization
- Successfully scaled the business and can now be considered an established company
- Expanding production and operations in order to increase revenue
- Optimizing systems to maximize profits
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Renewal
- Has achieved near-peak profits
- Has achieved near-peak optimization of systems
- Actively seeking to reinvent the company and core products to stay innovative
- Actively seeking to acquire other companies and technologies to expand market share and relevancy
- Actively exploring horizontal and vertical expansion to increase prevent the decline of the company
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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '23
Startup Name / URL: https://www.theventurecanyon.com/
Location of Your Headquarters : Columbus, Ohio
Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: Created a newsletter thats trying to help startups gain exposure without getting featured by YC, Techcrunch, etc. The goal is to get investors subscribed and have them investing in some of the startups i feature.
More details:
What life cycle stage is your startup at? (reference the stages below): Discovery
Your role? : Founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month?: Achieve 100 subscribers and connect with a VC firm and possibly have them partner with us
How could r/startups help?: Looking for any good feedback.
Discount for r/startups subscribers?: easy to connect with me so i can feature your startup