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

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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
  • Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and access to local resources
• Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video
• More details:
  • What life cycle stage is your startup at?
  • Your role?
• What goals are you trying to reach this month?
  • How could r/startups help?
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• Discount for r/startup subscribers?
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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
• 2. 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
• 3. 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
• 4. 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
• 5. 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
• 6. 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

If you are running a traditional business that is not designed to scale rapidly, feel free to reference a traditional business life cycle model and share what traditional business life cycle stage you are at.

[u/JoshN1986]

Startup Name / URL: scite / scite.ai
Location of Your Headquarters: Brooklyn, NY
Let people know where you are based for possible local networking with you and access to local resources: Brooklyn!
Elevator Pitch/Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RPM3-GgSYs
More details: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.15.435418v1
What life cycle stage is your startup at?: Seed
Your role? co-founder and CEO
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Get scite in front of more students and researchers around the world
How could r/startups help? Share scite with any student or research you know!
Discount for r/startup subscribers? 30% off Annual: SCITESTUDENTANNUAL, 30% off Monthly: SCITESTUDENT

scite is a new platform introducing "Smart Citations" – citations that allow users to see how a research paper has been cited by providing the context of the citation and a classification describing whether it provides supporting or contrasting evidence for the cited claim–kind of like Rotten Tomatoes but for research articles.