2025 Resolution: Fix Acceleration Problems with Your Startup to Become Fundable

Let’s be strategic about our time and resources in 2025.

If you are facing Velocity challenges, we should look closely at your Positioning.

The lowest hanging fruit in terms of what CAN be fixed in a B-to-B SaaS venture is Positioning.

Even in B-to-C, Positioning can be fixed.

Sometimes, we switch from B-to-C to B-to-B.

Sales processes can also be fixed. You have to follow a good methodology. It has to be done against a Positioning hypothesis.

Product problems can be fixed, especially if it’s a matter of adding functionality. Again, it has to be done against a Positioning hypothesis.

Within the runway of a venture-funded startup, however, it is excruciatingly difficult to fix Core Technology problems.

Engineering problems can be fixed, Technology problems are of a different league of intractability.

It is also very difficult to fix Market Timing issues. Runway tends to run out.

Can you wait for the market to develop? ONLY if you can do so without additional funding.

Can you pivot? ONLY if you can do so without additional funding.

Therefore, the strategy vis-a-vis many of these higher order challenges is to bootstrap if you can.

If you can extend the runway by operating lean, perhaps you CAN solve some of these problems.

But in general, they’re much harder to fix.

My Questions to You:

What do you think is the most critical factor hindering YOUR startup velocity?

What can you do in 2025 to fix acceleration roadblocks?

If you think you need help, consider a free online mentoring session with me. I will diagnose your roadblocks and we can discuss a path forward.

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This segment is a part in the series : 2025 Resolution