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Positioning Drives Velocity

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18th 2025

VCs are salivating over ultralight startups right now. The stigma around solo entrepreneurs will vanish soon. Positioning will remain key to achieving Velocity. And Velocity will continue to drive Fundability.

Are you trying to raise money for your startup and getting rejections? It’s worth understanding WHY. VCs are looking for Velocity. Their goal is to achieve $100M in revenue in 5-7 years. How do you do that? You can read more and dialog here on what drives Velocity.

Are you struggling with attracting customers? There’s a very good chance that your Positioning is off. Positioning drives Product Market Fit (PMF). You HAVE to get it right. You can read more and dialog here on how Positioning drives Product Market Fit.

Are you trying to do a startup as a SOLO entrepreneur? And are people telling you that you can’t? They’re wrong. You CAN. Fred Luddy bootstrapped ServiceNow as a Solo entrepreneur bootstrapping with a paycheck. He went on to raise a lot of VC funding. And, he went on to build a Unicorn. But there are complexities you need to understand. You can read more and dialog here on your SOLO entrepreneur strategy.

The Age of AI is also the golden age of Bootstrapping. And it is the golden age of Solo Entrepreneurs.  With AI, you can build a lot in an ultralight mode and get VCs salivating. The key is Positioning. You can read more and dialog here on your ultralight startup strategy.

Read Ultralight Startup Midjourney Bootstraps to $200M in Revenue to understand the trend.

If you missed last week’s 681st 1Mby1M Roundtable, please find the recap and the recording here. The next 682nd free mentoring roundtable is on April 24. Please register to pitch or attend.

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