r/startups • u/AutoModerator • Jul 02 '21
Share Your Startup 🚀 Share Your Startup - July 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
- 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.
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u/saar101 Jul 04 '21
Startup Name / URL: ATOHE https://atohe.com
Location of Your Headquarters: Remote
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More details:
What life cycle stage is your startup at? Discovery
Your role? Co-founder
What goals are you trying to reach this month? Alpha quite launch to get feedback and validate the idea
How could r/startups help? Be brutal, let me know what works well and what doesn't, and whether or not this product is of any use to you