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🚀 1 year into my startup journey and here's what I've learned: 🔍 It's not about the 'golden idea' but: 1. Getting the real problem right. 2. Navigating through countless solution ideas. 3. Connecting with those truly affected by the issue. 💡 Ideation = mastering these 3 steps. And guess what? These steps don’t have to burn a hole in your pocket! 💸

Hey founders! 🚀 Ever launched a funnel and watched... well, nothing happen? It’s like throwing a party and no one shows up. Ouch. Here’s the deal: 1. No Clarity: Your funnel's message is confusing. Like a maze with no exit. 2. No Connection: People don’t just buy products. They buy stories, emotions, connections. 3. No Continuity: Funnels need flow. Think of it as a river leading to an ocean, not a puddle in a dead-end. But wait, it's not all gloom and doom! The right funnel isn’t a trap; it's a bridge. 🌉 Connecting dreams to solutions. Ideas to audiences. Startups to success. Messed up a funnel? It's cool. We all do. But it’s never too late to build a better bridge. ...👇👇👇... Did this resonate? Connect or drop a follow. Craving more insights? Click that 🔔.

As a first-time founder, you think your struggles are going to be: - building the product - managing bugs and update - adding features for the best experience. But when reality hits you realize. The biggest struggle is making people care. When you work on a product you have an emotional investment. You lose an objective POV. But there 3 main concepts you need to shape for your product to succeed. - the problem it solves - the way it solves it - its reputation Marketing and branding play a crucial role in any startup. -- Hi I'm Asaf, and I share my journey of founding Chio from the ground up. Follow me if you enjoyed the post.

🍭I'm not gonna sugarcoat it - maintaining momentum is tough stuff. But here's the thing - it's also the key ingredient for success. So how do we maintain momentum in a studio setting? With three main ingredients: 🚦Stage Gates: like levels in a game, guiding us towards our next big win. 📈 Scorecards: our objective progress trackers, keeping us accountable and hungry for improvement. 📋 Deliverables: the tasks we need to tackle head-on to level up in our venture. These aren't just tools, they're our lifeline in the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. To keep us sharp, focused, and on the move! Here are my full thoughts on the matter → https://lnkd.in/eJFU-f9K

A chapter from Bessemer Venture Partners Founder's Fundamental Course is the importance of staying close to customers. The key insight here is to not just listen to customers, but to demonstrate that your team's hear them and take action on what they are telling you. Customers can inform product roadmap, where there is undue friction or when they aren't seeing the value for your product/service. Stay close to customers and let them be your guide! https://lnkd.in/g9DC4GUG

Journaling for #Founders About 6 years ago, one of my coaches, Tara-Nicholle Kirke 🙇♂️ got me started journaling. At the time I thought it was a bit of San Francisco Froo Froo. But having journaled now daily for 6 years, I find it to be a valuable tool in my ability to execute and avoid overwhelm. ✍ It gives me an opportunity to step back and look at myself from the outside in. It also forces me to take some time out of every day to settle and ask myself important questions. 🤔 Since Thanksgiving is a time when people stop to ask those around them "what are you thankful for?", I would invite founders (and anyone else who reads this) to ask yourself the same question. ❓ But don't stop there. Ask yourself a question a day. Ask the questions that you might not even know were there. The ones where the answers might scare you. 😮 Then answer the questions HONESTLY! And write without stopping! Don't give your inner censor an opportunity to edit your thoughts. Not stopping is the thing that helps create the answers that will surprise you. No one else needs to read you journal. 🙈 So this is the place where you can admit your fear and your insecurities. Acknowledging them is the first step in managing and overcoming them. 🧗♀️ Now that I've opened this box, I will post prompts from time to time. Even if you don't journal about them, take a moment and think about them. My first journal entry started with the prompt: How and where is fear holding you back? Suffice to say that my answer surprised me and leveled me up. And so have most of the prompts since then. So as we approach the end of 2023, and prepare for 2024, ask yourself: If you knew that you would succeed, what would goal would you set for 2024? What project would you start? What would you invest in? 📈 Have a great Thanksgiving! 🦃 And get your mind in the right place to make 2024 your breakout year! 🚀 https://lnkd.in/eJib3nwX #startups #FoundersForge #FounderCoaching

Hey everyone! How's it going? I hope you're all doing fantastic. Today, I want to share with you a book that has had a profound impact on my professional career: "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries. It's a game-changer! 💡 "The Lean Startup" revolutionizes the way we think about entrepreneurship and building successful businesses. Ries introduces the concept of validated learning, which emphasizes the importance of testing assumptions and quickly iterating based on feedback from customers. 🚀 One of the key takeaways from the book is the idea of building a minimum viable product (MVP) to test hypotheses and validate business ideas. Instead of spending months or years developing a product in isolation, the lean startup approach encourages entrepreneurs to launch early and learn fast. 💪 Another valuable lesson from "The Lean Startup" is the concept of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop. By continuously iterating and improving based on real-world data, entrepreneurs can accelerate their learning and increase their chances of success. 📈 I'm eager to hear your thoughts on this book and how its principles have influenced your approach to entrepreneurship and innovation. Let's exchange ideas and insights as we strive to build leaner, more resilient businesses together! 💬 So, if you're ready to embrace a more agile and customer-centric approach to entrepreneurship, I highly recommend picking up a copy of "The Lean Startup" and diving into Eric Ries's transformative insights. Your journey to startup success starts here! ✨ Go to my website thetechiepm.com/en if you want to know more.

Sequoia Capital's Product Market Fit framework is a must read for any early stage founder 📖 You need to know what fight you are in before you can set a plan (and execute on it) to win. A statement that seems obvious but is far from it.. Example: Founders often spend months on product/market education when the market is acutely aware of their problem, trying to solve it elsewhere and assessing them against a host of competitive solutions 🤯 They could/should be focusing on differentiated positioning * velocity in GTM to win 🎶 👩🚀 🚀 #pick #your #battle

🎯 Is your startup's product truly resonating with your target market? 🚀 Uncover the secrets to validating product-market fit with Dániel Nőthig's insightful guide, designed for startups preparing to scale. Explore the strategies now: https://lnkd.in/gSqjJpj5