-Seeking Validation: Your company has commercially viable MVP that is seeking early user/customer validation in the market
-Seeking Early Funding: Your company is ready for (or actively seeking) its first equity investment
-Early Signs of Growth: Your company shows early evidence of market validation and evidence of business growth in your home market
-Early Equity Funding: Your company successfully earned seed / angel funding and preparing for Series-A funding
-Early International Sales: Your company shows signs of international sales but development is still nascent
-Nascent Bootstrapping: Your company shows evidence of small organic growth and is not seeking equity fundraising (bootstrapping)
-Steps Toward Governance: Your company is Intent or starting to develop a board of directors
-Creating Departments: Your company is growing and there is movement to hiring company executives (part-time or full-time) relieving the CEO/Founder from some parts of the company's operations