Share Your Startup - May 2021 - Upvote This For Maximum Visibility!

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Startup Life Cycle Stages (Max Marmer life cycle model for startups as used by Startup Genome and Kauffman Foundation)

• 1. 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
• 1. 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
• 1. Efficiency
     
  • Achieved product/market fit
  • Preparing to begin 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 of scaling
  • Conducting validation tests of scaling strategies
• 1. 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
• 1. 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
• 1. 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/breued]

Name: Breue

URL: breue.com

Location: SF, DC

Pitch: You are an entrepreneur. Whether you are a first timer or a serial entrepreneur, you have an amazing idea that you wanna turn intro reality. Unfortunately, you can’t code yourself, don’t have a co-founder that can, and it can be a headache to find the right person or dev shop. Meet Breue - your digital launch partner. We turn a good idea into a beautiful full-functioning product for $9k and in 4 weeks. We want to see you succeed. So we’ll be there to chat and collaborate with you on a daily basis. We’ll also advise you on the product vision and business model so you can go validate your idea and get some traction.

Details: Breue is a one person shop. So far, it's been pretty fun working with some neat people on some inspiring ideas. You can checkout some of the stories of these projects on the site.

Looking For: Interesting ideas that are solving some challenging problems.

Discount: Free product roadmap, helping you spec out any features for development. Also, shoot me an email if you are just looking for feedback or any advice/help :)

*A little helpful read I put together in this subreddit a bit ago - https://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/f7zj4v/how_to_validate_your_startup_idea/

[u/root3over2 → u/breued]

Pretty cool in general, but one red flag I see immediately: If this is a one-person shop, how is this different from just freelance work? Are you not just selling your own service as a developer? If more people join the team, you're then just a team of a developers are you not?

I could be misunderstanding/misrepresenting this so please clarify if so. Nonetheless, seems like you really enjoy it so would love to see you succeed!

[u/breued → u/root3over2]

You bring up an interesting question.

Overall:

-It is selective, I can't take on everything

-It's the full stack. I often start with just an idea. So I have to help come up with a name, logo, front end design, front end code, back end code, and helping them shape the idea into a useful product

-After building the product, I try to connect them with a network of other founders i've worked with.

-For some of the projects, I take a vested interest/some sort of equity.

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As to your other question, i'm not planning on adding any other peeps to the team. I'm not sure what i'd classify it as. But it's pretty different from what you'd call a "dev shop." I guess it could be called more of a hands on incubator/ a one size fits all kind of workshop/prototyping factory.

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Thanks! I appreciate it!

[u/root3over2 → u/breued]

Sounds a lot more interesting the way you put it here! Just know that building product to that extent deserves solid equity and compensation. For the work you're doing, I hope you aren't underselling yourself because it seems like you have incredible talent. Ultimately, all of this is up to you and I'm sure you know best, so goodd luck!

[u/breued → u/root3over2]

Thank you sir! That means a lot to me! :) I do often question myself and wonder if I should restructure the pricing model. Maybe at some point. But for now, i'm grateful that the current model allows me select the more interesting stuff to take on. I hope you crush it on your endeavors too!!