What are the Growth Stages for an Internet Business?

A big part of Growth strategy & planning skill boils down to pattern-matching.

Most problems and their solutions are not unique to a startup. Identifying the superset of problems an internet business could be dealing with, is therefore half the solution.

So, how does one acquire this skill?

The biggest factor that defines the problem and solution space is often the stage of the business. Correctly identifying the stage of the business is, therefore, the first step.

In this skilleton, we will go through different stages of a startup & the ways to measure them. Once you have completed this skilleton, you will appreciate the common growth stage-to-solution mapping better.

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