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SimplyBroken.com SimplyBroken.com To create a startup strategy think about 3 time horizons Long- term Medium- term Short term Time-frame Questions to answer 5+ years 10-15 months 1 3-6 months What are the metrics, results and “story” will you have for raising the next round of funding? What are the short term actions and priorities which you are focused on (e.g., feature development, partnerships, hiring) What is your grand vision for the company? Horizon A B C 1 Depending when and if you need to start raising your next round

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Page 1: SimplyBroken.com To create a startup strategy think about 3 time horizons Long- term Medium- term Short term Time-frameQuestions to answer  5+ years

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To create a startup strategy think about 3 time horizons

Long-term

Medium-term

Short term

Time-frame Questions to answer

5+ years

10-15 months1

3-6 months

What are the metrics, results and “story” will you have for raising the next round of funding?

What are the short term actions and priorities which you are focused on (e.g., feature development, partnerships, hiring)

What is your grand vision for the company?

Horizon

A

B

C

1 Depending when and if you need to start raising your next round

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Long term vision

Improve people’s lives by motivating, measuring and improving all the activities that impact their life-energy (e.g., fitness, sleep)

A

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To raise our A round, we will show traction, positive results and proof of concept for paying users

B

Capture market share

Increase daily usage

Estimate user life-time value and define segmentation

Goals

Description

Actions

Develop end-consumer functionality that will continue to support word-of-mouth growth and increased usage

Invest in marketing to grow user base

Deploy pricing tests to understand willingness-to-pay and segmentation

MAU – monthly avg. users

DAU – daily average users

DAU/MAU – repeat usage

Metrics

Total signups

Total shared quiz

Estimated value per user

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Our company has 5 major priorities to accomplish in the next 3-6 months

C

1. Scalability

2. UX redesign

Description and goals By (date)

XXX Set specific and measurable goals (e.g., Increase systems total capacity by 3X to XXX)

Topic

3. Recruiting

4. Topic X

5. Feature Y

… XXX

XXX

XXX

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