What counts as real traction?
Repeat usage, willingness to pay, and unprompted referrals from customers. Vanity metrics — signups, follower counts, press — predict almost nothing.
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What investors look past
Top-of-funnel metrics that don't translate into retention. A million signups with no second visit is not traction.
What investors look for
Customers paying, coming back, telling others, and getting upset when the product breaks. That is the signal.