A clickable flowchart, with links, to help early stage founders self diagnose their current startup growth status, bottlenecks, and next steps

Early stage startup founders

Because most early stage startups suffer from FOMO + Indigestion: Too many amazing pieces of content about growth but too few resources to implement them all. Also, don’t know where to begin. This chart is to help you evaluate what is the right thing for you to do right now. What you should focus on next, and, most importantly, what you should ignore.

It's been written by experts at 500 Startups, noteably: Chandini - Partner at 500 Startups has spent over 1800 hours working hands-on with over 200 early stage startups (helping them with growth) all around the world, using all different platforms and business models - hardware, software, web, mobile, B2B, B2C, India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia, Europe, North America…. She's learnt a few things about early stage startup founders, their problems, and their persistent growth questions. This site is my scalable response to “I want to do Marketing/Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing/Growth, where do I begin?” or the perennial “Is there a Growth Hacking 101?” J. Ryan Williams, an EIR at 500 Startups, has been building and training sales teams at startups for 9 years. Ryan’s a speaker, trainer and thought leader, but he has also personally closed tens of millions in deals and as a sales leader he’s hired over 200 reps across the 5 different startups he’s been a part of (which include: AdRoll, LeadGenius and InVisionApp). He’s a master of testing markets, building customer profiles, coaching deals and sales hiring. When not at 500, he is working on his own startup, SalesCollider, to bring founders together with top tier sales leaders through events and advisory.

A clickable flowchart, with links, to help early stage founders self diagnose their current startup growth status, bottlenecks, and next steps

Early stage startup founders

Because most early stage startups suffer from FOMO + Indigestion: Too many amazing pieces of content about growth but too few resources to implement them all. Also, don’t know where to begin. This chart is to help you evaluate what is the right thing for you to do right now. What you should focus on next, and, most importantly, what you should ignore.

It's been written by experts at 500 Startups, noteably: Chandini - Partner at 500 Startups has spent over 1800 hours working hands-on with over 200 early stage startups (helping them with growth) all around the world, using all different platforms and business models - hardware, software, web, mobile, B2B, B2C, India, Southeast Asia, Korea, Australia, Europe, North America…. She's learnt a few things about early stage startup founders, their problems, and their persistent growth questions. This site is my scalable response to “I want to do Marketing/Growth Hacking/Growth Marketing/Growth, where do I begin?” or the perennial “Is there a Growth Hacking 101?” J. Ryan Williams, an EIR at 500 Startups, has been building and training sales teams at startups for 9 years. Ryan’s a speaker, trainer and thought leader, but he has also personally closed tens of millions in deals and as a sales leader he’s hired over 200 reps across the 5 different startups he’s been a part of (which include: AdRoll, LeadGenius and InVisionApp). He’s a master of testing markets, building customer profiles, coaching deals and sales hiring. When not at 500, he is working on his own startup, SalesCollider, to bring founders together with top tier sales leaders through events and advisory.