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the traction team

For startups and things that need starting up.

marketers | technologists | coders | designers | engineers | analysts | connectors | coaches | advisors

What type of traction do you need?

People/Ops

Market

Product

Finance

Inputs

  • API data
  • Goals
  • Results
  • Updates
  • Analytics
  • Operations, HR, & Admin Staffing
  • Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
  • Scrum & Agile Best Practices
  • Recruiting & Culture Design
  • Remote Team Management
  • Technology Stack Integration

Outputs

  • Dashboards
  • KPIs
  • Board slides
  • Reports
  • Alerts

Inputs

  • API data
  • Goals
  • Results
  • Updates
  • Analytics

Outputs

  • Dashboards
  • KPIs
  • Board slides
  • Reports
  • Alerts

“Vision without traction is hallucination.”

- Gino Wickman, Wise man with great quote and good book.

The startup operating system.

GripOS™ combines the same PEOPLE, PROCESSES, & TECHNOLOGY best-practices that have delivered goal-driven direction and data-driven traction to the most successful startups in history.



PEOPLE

"A-player" ops talent trained for startup traction.

Grip can staff you with a scalable Ops/Admin team that keeps you focused on the stuff that matters; at a fraction of the costs of full-time hires, and without HR and cap-table complications.

Interim Ops Team

Start with a dedicated Chief of Staff, Office Manager, & EA. Plug in other specialtists - COO, CPO, payroll, HR, bookkeeping, etc. - as needed.

Recruiting, Onboarding, & Training

Your own Grip recruiter and HR specialists will keep your startup growing and brimming with well-trained (see PROCESSES below) and well-motivated talent.

Remote Team Management

The modern workplace is geographically disperse. Grip teams are specifically trained and disciplined to keep distributed teams aligned and engaged.

PROCESSES

Proven best-practices for startup success.

Grip takes the proven frameworks developed and employed at 1000s of startups and tech giants (Intel, Google, LinkedIn, Spotify, etc.) and injects them into your company's DNA.

OKRs et al.

What do you get when you combine OKRs with CFRs, Agile, Scrum, and other proven frameworks? Traction. Goal-driven, aligned, transparent traction.

Relentless discipline

If goal-driven systems fail, it is usually due to a lack of buy-in and discipline. Grip don't play that. You give us the green light, we will deliver the rigor.

Board loved and approved

The biggest fans of OKRs and transaprency are VCs and Boards. Keep them impressed, informed, and in your corner. Board prep should only take an hour or so.

TECHNOLOGY

Tech and tools to tie it all together.

GripOS™ assembles an arsenal of best-of-breed platforms and tools that empower collaboration, alignment, and measurement.

Dashboards & KPIs

Well-defined Key Results lead to measureable Key Performance Indicators. Grip dashboards keep progress visible in real-time (most cases).

Work Management & Collaboration

Work Management tools like Asana, ClickUp, and other tools make sure that every calorie your team exherts is visisble, aligned, and toward your stated goals. (Email sucks. Period.)

ERPs, CRMs, APIs... TMI?

Grip technologists are specialists at assembling and integrating the parts and pieces of your tech stack, making sure they all talk to each other. #geek #tech #data #code

“OKRs are clear vessels for leaders’ priorities and insights.”

- John Doerr, Venture captial legend and author of Measure What Matters.

6 things we do really well

(Of course, we rock at more than 6 things, but let's start with these - in no particular order.)

Let's keep your startup data-driven.

Your traction. Visible. In real-time.

When done right, dashboarding can be transformative to your startup and provide you, your investors, and your entire team with a new level of data-driven confidence, speed, and direction.

Let's get that MVP developed and shipped.

Beautiful agile code done right and done fast.

The Grip network of builders includes top-notch designers, UX/UI experts, architects, CTOs, and full-stack engineers with experienced startup chops. We can get your Minimum Viable Product built and ready for real users (and their feedback) asap.

Let's get your tech stack ready for rapid growth.

Startup ERP implementation for traction, speed, and growth.

The switch to a true Enterprise Resource Planning presents an opportunity to evaluate and optimize everything about your current processes, lining you up for rapid and sustained growth.

Let's get your board informed and involved.

Walk into each board meeting prepared and confident.

When you have properly front-loaded your planning, goals, processes, and measurements (via GripOS), board material preparation need only take an hour or so. Now you can focus on effectively utilizing your Board.

Let's find users and make them love us.

Tools & techniques to reach product/message/market fit fast.

Grip marketers use a combination of the latest tricks blended with time-proven best practices. More than just staying on top of the latest innovations in digital marketing, these are the people creating these innovations.

Let's get that revenue flowing.

Strategies, campaigns, systems, and people for customer acquisition.

Nothing shows traction better than sales and real revenue. Grip can build and manage your sales team of aligned, disciplined, well-trained closers.

Let's connect!

Tell us a little about your startup, the traction you need, and let's set up a quick chat. Even if Grip is not the right addition to your team, we'd love to help in any way we can. We love talking about this stuff.

“The pursuit of traction is what defines a startup.”

- Gabriel Weinberg, Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers.