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Proprietary and Confidential
START UP SECRETS
An insider’s guide to unfair competitive advantage
Roadmap to Success
@underscorevc startupsecrets.com
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Frequently asked questions: • What is involved in a startup?• What are the things I need to think about / learn to be successful?• Is my (idea/project/opportunity) fundable?• How do I pitch it to raise money?• And many more questions and frequently questioned answers!
What are YOUR questions ?
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Why are we here?
startupsecrets.com Roadmap to Success @underscorevc
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Frequently asked questions: • What is involved in a startup?• What are the things I need to think about / learn to be successful?• Is my (idea/project/opportunity) fundable?• How do I pitch it to raise money?• And many more questions and frequently questioned answers!
Startup Secrets as a series is designed to bring these questions to life in practical frameworks and case studies… • So we designed this workshop as a Roadmap to Success
and in turn therefore to the Startup Secrets series as a whole
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Why are we here?
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Macro: Building an enduring company…
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Vision / Mission
Value Prop
R o a d m a p Enduring CompanyStartup
……… …
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A good first step…
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Some kind of ROADMAP to execute fromMight take many forms for different audiences
Product Roadmap?Business Plan?Investor Pitch Deck?… or even a Napkin Sketch!
It will almost certainly be wrong!
But it can’t be mindless, it needs to be mindful!So you have some straw man, or baseline to work from
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Steps:
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Ideation Confirmation Creation Validation Repeatability Scalability Profitability Predictability
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Each Step: Reduce Risk, Increase Value
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Ideation Confirmation Creation Validation Repeatability Scalability Profitability Predictability
Increasing VALUE
Decreasing RISK
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Reality - Iteration
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Ideation Confirmation Creation Validation Repeatability Scalability Profitability Predictability
Increasing VALUE
Decreasing RISK
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What will yours be?
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The roadmap to success…
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Pivots?
Ideation
Repeatability?
Predictability?
Scalability?
Validation?
Profitability?
Funding?Creation
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What will yours be?• Expect the unexpected…
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The roadmap to success…
startupsecrets.com Roadmap to Success @underscorevc
Pivots?
Ideation
Repeatability?
Predictability?
Scalability?
Validation?
Profitability?
Funding?Creation
Outliercustomers
Business Model Reworking
FundingMirage
Iterations
The unexpected:“near death” experience
Team Upgrades
Growth vs Leverage?
Re- Creation
(See LinkedIn article here)
StartupEuphoria
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What will yours be?• Expect the unexpected…
Longer, harder, maybe even bigger
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The roadmap to success…
startupsecrets.com Roadmap to Success @underscorevc
Pivots?
Ideation
Repeatability?
Predictability?
Scalability?
Validation?
Profitability?
Funding?Creation
Outliercustomers
Business Model Reworking
FundingMirage
Iterations
The unexpected:“near death” experience
Team Upgrades
Growth vs Leverage?
Re- Creation
StartupEuphoria
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Milestones
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Increasing VALUE
Decreasing RISK
Product Market Fit
PrototypeProblem Fit
Value PropIdea Fit
MVP & MVSCustomer Fit
CompanyExecution Fit
CompanyPublic Market Fit
CompanyBusiness Model Fit
Ideation Confirmation Creation Validation Repeatability Scalability Profitability Predictability
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Whiteboard:
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Project, Org, Company Name
Team• Team Member Names & Backgrounds
Why uniquely qualified to address this problem / opportunity Value Prop
• Problem you’re solving Product / Service
Vision• Market need
Evolution in several years How will you lead it
Create Roadmap – TIMELINE
– Ideation– Confirmation– Creation– Validation / Iteration– Repeatability– Scalability– Profitability– Predictability
Who? Why? How? What? When?
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What are you missing?
How much of this is incomplete or missing? Team Value Proposition Product Go-To-Market Business Model
… and many others
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Planning for the perfect pitch…
How much of this is incomplete or missing? Team Value Proposition Product Go-To-Market Business Model
… and many others
MONEY? See “Funding Strategies To Go The Distance”
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Incomplete stand outs are better than complete stand ups! We looking for outstanding:
• People• Technology or other disruption• Market opportunity
One outstanding of the above literally stands out vs. all good, but none great
We don’t expect complete• Team• Product• Value prop• GTM plan• Business Model
Entrepreneurs don’t need all the answers!• Self aware, listening, leaders…
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Startup Secrets Workshops
Full descriptions of each at StartupSecrets.com
1. Startup Roadmap2. Building a Compelling Value Proposition3. Company Formation 1: Vision, Mission,
Culture4. Company Formation 2: Hiring 5. Game Changing Business Models6. Go to Market 1: Strategy7. Go to Market 2: Tactics8. Getting Behind the Perfect Investor
Pitch9. Funding Strategies to go the Distance10. Turning Products into Companies11. Have you Got What It Takes?12. Mastering Mutual Mentorship