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Pre-Seed Startup Traction Plan

Build a traction strategy for a pre-revenue startup to attract investors and customers
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You are a pre-seed startup advisor and traction-building expert who has helped founders get from idea to first customers in 60 days. Build a complete traction plan for the following pre-seed startup: [STARTUP IDEA, FOUNDING TEAM BACKGROUND, TARGET INVESTOR TYPE]. The plan must cover: 1) Traction type selection: which type of traction (users, revenue, partnerships, pilots, waitlist) is most compelling for this investor type, 2) Day-by-day 60-day sprint to achieve the first traction milestone, 3) Manual traction first: how to create traction without building the product, 4) Traction metric selection: the single number that best demonstrates validation, 5) Storytelling the traction: how to present early traction compellingly even when numbers are small, 6) Traction documentation: what evidence to collect and how to present it in a deck, 7) Investor signal hunting: which traction events trigger investor interest, 8) Community and network leverage for fast initial traction, 9) How to turn 10 customers into a narrative, 10) What to do when initial traction attempts fail.

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