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Start-up Business
By JOE MAILLET 1,216 views
BUSINESS

Tick It Off: A Quick Checklist for Every Start-up Business

You are lucky to be starting or running a business at a time when tools are well within your reach. You have the internet to look up resources and prospects to see the venture through profitability and growth. Plus, social media links you closer to people who may share their talents or funds with your newly launched project.

That being said, the road to a successful venture is not paved with gold or its outcome handed to you on a silver platter. And you probably know that the proper mindset, preparation, and possibly, luck tick all the right boxes. Come over, and consider the following as part of your start-up kit.

  1. Start with the Right Mindset

 You can gather from this article that start-ups and small businesses work differently. A start-up company aims to disrupt and thus operate in a model that deviates from ones that a small business emulates.

Start-ups hinge on technology and innovation to steer them toward scalability. Some of their methodologies are expectedly not in the traditional business playbook. For example, Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup focuses on building a product, measuring customers’ response, and reacting appropriately. Another approach, albeit similar, recommends selling a promise before delivering an actual product to get funding.

  1. Do Your Research

 Market research is indispensable. The idea can sound as simple as selling clothes online, but what type of clothes and for whom? If you are to picture out an actual market, how can you stand out among a sea of sellers peddling more or less the same wares? Are you going for unisex, men, women, tote bags, shoes, jackets, etc.? Are you targeting people who like timelessness, minimalism, or edginess in their closet?

Product research and development is costly and tedious if you go by the typical approach. MVP, or minimum viable product, tells you to build a prototype of a product with the core features and pitch it to customers. You will use their feedback to enhance the product and test hypotheses at the lowest cost possible.

  1. Surround Yourself with the Core People

 As noted above, you don’t need much money to launch a product. You also don’t require scores of people to do the rudimentary and essential tasks in the company. Select a handful of talented individuals, and identify the right people to incentivize.

Pay grade aside, a defining feature of start-up companies is a small number of employees who know what to do and can take on other tasks as the project demands. It may seem anecdotal, but more people can mean chaos if the headcount reaches 40 or 50, perhaps.

  1. Update Your Tech Savvy

Start-ups love technology by default because it helps them survive, given their sometimes-limited resources. Accordingly, your job is to keep track of current and up-and-coming innovations that will get things done at a lower cost. Discover ways to automate repetitive tasks so that employees can focus their energies on problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration.

Your pursuits toward harnessing technologies for the long-term success of your venture go alongside a reliable internet connection. If you have a wired setup, you will need Ethernet switches to connect multiple devices and manage traffic within the network. With data transfers of 10 to 1,000 Mbps, you can get faster connectivity using Ethernet switches.

  1. Learn to Eliminate Risks

They may have new or improved ways of doing things, but start-ups are not exempt from uncertainties. Ventures start promising only to fizzle out because of miscalculations and overlooked matters. The mindset in the start-up world is that things move fast, so everyone has to keep up in an agile manner.

To ensure that your team can and will perform in the most optimal way, you can look into drug testing on the preemployment stage. It’s a practical way to screen candidates; those who want to move forward with the offer will try their best to pass the drug test and get the traces out of their system. You can afford a certain level of certainty that no one is using substances that can affect future productivity and efficiency.

Great things are expected of you. Bring your idea to fruition with this checklist in tow.

Joe Maillet
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JOE MAILLET

Joe Maillet is an avid reader and a writer by heart. He is an author, freelance writer and a contributor writer, who write articles and blogs for various leading online media publications and for CEO and entrepreneurs from across the world. He keeps himself updated with the latest marketing trends and always recognized in the industry for providing solutions to B2B and B2C businesses.