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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?
  • Do NOT solicit funds publicly–this may be illegal for you to do so
• Discount for r/startup 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 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

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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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^{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.}