Your origin story explains why you decided to start your business: SKMurphy offers highlights and a few tools for startups.
Telling others your origin story, writing it down, and refining it are part of the longer journey of getting your business out of your head and getting it articulated. You can then use it to build a team and to find prospects who may become customers.
An effective origin story explains why you started your business.
- What led you to solve this particular problem for a specific type of customer?
- What led you to focus on this particular problem with the solution for the customer that you’re aiming at?
- When did you take an interest in solving the particular problem?
- As you worked in this area, what have you learned?
Read our collection of prompts and questions
Below is an easy way to record your origin story
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