Phase: measure

KPIs and beyond: How to mea­sure and grow your startup’s impact

As your start­up enters the growth phase, track­ing key per­for­mance indi­ca­tors (KPIs) becomes essen­tial. KPIs help you mea­sure progress, spot road­blocks ear­ly, and make informed, data-dri­ven deci­sions. This is also the right time to track and ana­lyze both finan­cial and impact KPIs to learn from them…

KPIs und Co.: So messt und opti­miert ihr den Impact eures Star­tups

In der Wach­s­tum­sphase eures Star­tups sind KPIs (Key Per­for­mance Indi­ca­tors) unverzicht­bar, um Fortschritte zu messen, Her­aus­forderun­gen zu iden­ti­fizieren und daten­basierte Entschei­dun­gen zu tre­f­fen. Außer­dem emp­fiehlt es sich in diesem Schritt, ein Ref­eren­zszenario (Coun­ter­fac­tu­al) zu erstellen. So kön­nt ihr die tat­säch­lichen Auswirkun­gen eures Vorhabens bew­erten. Diese Analy­sen…

Test­ing your financ­ing strat­e­gy: Ready to pitch

Test­ing your fund­ing strat­e­gy is a cru­cial step to make sure it’s both com­pelling and real­is­tic.It gets you ready for real-life fundrais­ing rounds and helps build trust with investors and fun­ders. This sec­tion is for you if … Not quite…

Putting your MVP to the test: Mea­sur­ing your startup’s impact

Your MVP is ready — now what? It’s time to test how well your solu­tion is received and what impact it real­ly has. In this phase, you’ll gath­er key data to make informed deci­sions about how to move for­ward. This sec­tion is for you if…

Real­i­ty check for impact star­tups: Make sure your mar­ket analy­sis holds up

Before you build out a busi­ness mod­el, take a moment to make sure your view of the mar­ket is grounded—and that your solu­tion actu­al­ly solves the prob­lem you’ve iden­ti­fied. Test­ing your mar­ket analy­sis helps you catch blind spots and adjust your solu­tion to bet­ter match what…

Pro­to­type in real-world test­ing: Col­lect feed­back and mea­sure impact

Already built a pro­to­type for your impact start­up? Now it’s time to gath­er real data on how it’s used and what impact it has. Whether your pro­to­type is dig­i­tal or phys­i­cal, thor­ough test­ing is essen­tial to improve it. In this chap­ter, we intro­duce dif­fer­ent test­ing meth­ods…

Solu­tion design: How impact start-ups can test their solu­tion ideas

Have you already devel­oped inno­v­a­tive solu­tions for a prob­lem that you want to tack­le with your impact start­up? Now it’s time to test your assump­tions for solv­ing the prob­lem in order to iden­ti­fy the best solu­tion. Inter­views with the tar­get group will help you do this.

Col­lect­ing data on tar­get groups and stake­hold­ers: how to con­duct a well-found­ed analy­sis

In order to real­ly make a dif­fer­ence with your impact start­up, you and your team need sound insights into the needs and expec­ta­tions of your tar­get group and stake­hold­ers. You should also val­i­date the assump­tions you have made about the social or envi­ron­men­tal prob­lem. Here we…