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Deck sharing best practices (SUP)

🎨 Design

💳 Financial services

🫀 Health

💻 IT consulting & outsourcing

📒 Legal & accounting

💠 Other

📣 PR & marketing

🌐 Partner hub

🔍 Recruiting & headhunting

🦾 SaaS services

💬 Translation services

🧳 Travel & accomodation

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 HR services

⏳ Productivity

☁️ Server & cloud solutions

⚙️ Web & app development

Founders refine and validate their business concept, conduct market research, and create an MVP to gather feedback and attract early adopters.

💡 Idea stage

The startup focuses on building the product or service, addressing technical challenges, and seeking early-stage investment.

🐱‍💻 Development stage

The startup experiences increasing customer base and revenue, focusing on scaling operations, optimizing marketing and sales strategies, and establishing product-market fit.

📈 Growth stage

The startup enters a phase of rapid growth, scaling operations across multiple dimensions, seeking additional funding, and aiming for market dominance and increased profitability.

🚀 Scale stage