What Matters Now For Your Startup

In the mist of the noise about what matters for startups and how startups can succeed, a few ideas and principles stand out. If you get it right, customers and users will gravitate to you and your business will get the attention it deserves from investors, partners and prospective users or customers.

Here’s what matters now.

1. A visionary CEO
2. A well-known path to success
3. An excellent team
4. Passionate employees
5. Creativity and a lot of perseverance to sell your product.
6. Lean and effective marketing strategy
7. Role clarity for efficient performance
8. Driving traffic and converting that traffic to customers
9. Handful of key features that will retain most of your customers
10. A good marketing message that  tells a story
11. A highly converting website if your product runs on a subscription model
12. Knowledge about your customer
13. A measurable marketing strategy
14. A unique selling proposition
15. A strategy to retain customers who sign up
16. How targeted prospects are going to find you consistently
17. Feedback
18. User experience is everything.

You can add what is working for your startup now to the list.