So, how to start a startup?

Key steps

Starting a startup can be an exciting and challenging endeavor. Here are some key steps to help you get started:

• Identify a problem or opportunity: The first step in starting a startup is identifying a problem or opportunity that you are passionate about solving. This could be a problem that you have experienced firsthand or one that you have observed in the market.
• Conduct market research: Once you have identified a problem or opportunity, conduct market research to validate the need for a solution. This includes researching technology feasibility, legal aspects, and the target market, analyzing the competition, and gathering feedback from potential customers.
• Develop a business plan: A business plan is a detailed document that outlines the goals, strategies, and financial projections for your startup. A business plan will help you to stay organized and on track as you move forward with your startup.
• Build a team: Starting a startup is a team effort and you will need a team of people to help you with different aspects of the business such as product development, marketing, and finances.
• Raise funds: Once you have a solid business plan and a team in place, it’s time to raise funds. This could be through venture capital, angel investors, crowdfunding, or other methods.
• Launch and Iterate: After you have built your MVP and raised funds, it’s time to launch your startup and start gathering feedback from early adopters. Use this feedback to iterate and improve your product or service.
• Scale: Once you have validated your business idea and have a product-market fit, it’s time to scale your startup and reach more customers.

It’s worth mentioning that starting a startup is a dynamic process, and it’s normal to face challenges and obstacles, it’s important to be persistent, flexible, and open to learning and adapting. Also, it’s essential to seek advice and mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs, they can help you avoid common pitfalls and provide guidance on how to navigate the startup ecosystem.

Phases with Ventures21

Like Ventures21, being technology-oriented, we will help you optimize the process and go through it with the least amount of risk. In our approach, we analyze a potential idea for its feasibility and relevance in the following steps:

• Phase 1: Proof of Technology (feasibility studies, creation of PoC, legal restrictions, initial blocking points)
• Phase 2: Proof of Business (creation of MVP, identification and interest of the market, feedback from potential users, analysis of business blocking points, consultation from domain experts)
• Phase 3: Proof of Organisation (preparing the organization for full business operations, scaling, seeking funding, operations).

This approach avoids generating excessive costs, allows an evaluative mode of creating the best business approach, early fish analysis, and profitability diagnosis, and preparation and implementation of the necessary elements of the company’s operation such as team, processes, finances, operations for further scaling of the business, acquiring funds, partners or customers.