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Traction Metrics Seed Real Startup Funding And Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

These need to go beyond the traditional revenue, cost, and volume metrics which may not yet have data, and can mislead you about real customer acceptance. Build an inside advisory board of influencers and experts. Show evidence of growing and unsatisfied customer demand. Visibility increases over time are traction.

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7 Steps To Turning Business-As-Usual Into A Moonshot

Startup Professionals Musings

Moonshots are simply efforts that demand breakthroughs that are not possible within business-as-usual practices. These could include customer penetration, revenue growth, budget guidelines, and industry visibility. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 07/15/2016. Clearly define and issue the challenge.

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Swedish Immigrant Helps Reinvent the Mouthguard Industry

Hearpreneur

Your company produces solid revenue – what advice do you have for companies struggling to keep things even revenue-wise? We brought a product to the market that you cannot find anywhere else, and in addition a product there is a need and high demand for. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful.