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Grow Startup

4 milestones · 12 weeks

Document a real business's starting revenue or user count and attribution method, then grow it over 6 months with results attributable to real channels.

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Get Your First 10 Paying Customers

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Sign 10 real customers who pay for your product or service.

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Validate a Business Idea

3 milestones · 6 weeks

Run experiments to confirm real demand before building.

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Launch on Product Hunt

3 milestones · 6 weeks

Execute a top-20 Product Hunt launch day.

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Build an E-Commerce Store

3 milestones · 10 weeks

Launch a Shopify store to $5,000 in first-month revenue.

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Close a Consulting Contract

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Land your first $5,000+ consulting engagement.

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Launch a Marketplace

3 milestones · 16 weeks

Build a two-sided marketplace with 10 suppliers and 50 buyers.

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Make Your First Hire

3 milestones · 10 weeks

Define the role, recruit, and onboard your first employee.

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Raise a Pre-Seed Round

3 milestones · 16 weeks

Raise $250k–$1M from angels or a pre-seed fund.

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Build a Content-Led Business

3 milestones · 16 weeks

Grow a business where content drives 80%+ of customer acquisition.

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Launch a Freelance Agency

3 milestones · 12 weeks

Build a service business with 3+ clients and a repeatable delivery model.

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Launch a Micro-SaaS

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Build and ship a focused tool that solves one problem for one audience.

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Build a Subscription Business

3 milestones · 12 weeks

Launch a subscription model reaching 100 active subscribers.

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Reach $100k MRR

3 milestones · 52 weeks

Grow a product to $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue.

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Grow Your Product to 1,000 Users

4 milestones · 16 weeks

Scale from 25 strangers to 1,000 core-action completions — entirely through distribution, not feature-building. Every milestone requires measuring completions of the core action, not signups or page views.

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Raise a Seed Round

3 milestones · 20 weeks

Raise $1M–$5M from institutional seed investors.

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Get Into an Accelerator

3 milestones · 12 weeks

Get accepted into YC, Techstars, or a top-tier accelerator program.

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File a Patent

3 milestones · 16 weeks

File a provisional or utility patent application for your invention.

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Get Your First Press Coverage

3 milestones · 8 weeks

Land a feature in a publication your target customers read.

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Find Product-Market Fit

3 milestones · 20 weeks

Reach a 40%+ 'very disappointed' score on Sean Ellis test with real users.

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Build and Exit

3 milestones · 104 weeks

Build a product to a point of acquisition and complete a successful exit.

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Launch Your First Product Publicly

5 milestones · 8 weeks

Ship your product to strangers — people who find it without being personally invited — define a specific success metric before building, and publish a public retrospective with real numbers.

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Lead a Company Through a Pivot

0 milestones · 24 weeks

Facilitate and execute a strategic pivot — documented with before/after strategy, team communication, and outcome metrics.

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Build a Board Presentation Cadence

0 milestones · 36 weeks

Design and run 3 consecutive quarterly board presentations with documented board feedback and action items resolved.

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