r/startups • u/julian88888888 • Jul 11 '25
Share your startup - quarterly post
Share Your Startup - Q4 2023
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Tell us about your startup in a comment within this submission. Follow this template:
- Startup Name / URL
- Location of Your Headquarters
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- Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
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- 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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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
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
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
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
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
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/cporter202 3d ago
Startup Name / URL: ViralWave Studio – https://viralwavestudio.com
Location of Your Headquarters: Erie, Pennsylvania, USA
Elevator Pitch/Explainer: ViralWave Studio is an AI-powered social media management platform that turns content creation and strategy into an automated process. Our trainable AI persona matches your brand voice and generates up to 30 unique posts from a single topic or RSS feed, complete with tailored copy and eye‑catching images. Predictive virality scores and weekly strategic insights help you focus on content that performs, while an intuitive calendar and randomized scheduling save hours of manual work.
What life cycle stage is your startup at? We’re currently in beta with our core product live, onboarding users and refining features based on feedback.
Your role?: Founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Our goals for the next month are to onboard 50 active beta users, refine our AI training and scheduling algorithms, and continue expanding platform integrations.
How could r/startups help? We’d love feedback from founders and marketers on how our tool fits into your workflow and what features would make it even more valuable. Trying it out and sharing honest feedback would be extremely appreciated.
Discount for r/startups subscribers: We’re offering r/startups members free access to our pro plan for beta testers. Use code BETAFREE when you sign up at viralwavestudio.com to get the Pro plan at no cost during beta.