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Hey guys, I put this together as a easier way to visualize & update your business hypotheses. Writing down the beliefs your startup is based on is crucial... i
by robfitz 16y ago
Hey guys, I put this together as a easier way to visualize & update your business hypotheses.
Writing down the beliefs your startup is based on is crucial... it keeps you focused on risks instead of features, makes communication w/ team & investors easier, and stops you from ignoring the evidence. Yet most people don't do it (and almost no one consistently updates them).
I thought Steve Blank's customer development worksheets were a good start, but it's hard to update quickly and doesn't provide an overview. The canvas you see on the app is a modification of the Business Model Generation canvas, which I re-vamped to better suit startups.
Hope it's handy.
- JarekS 16y agoI like it very much. In fact - I'm filling it out right now! BTW - I love the potential of this app. I.e. you can expand Key Performance Indicators with some sort of the Steve Blank kind of small "no accounting" app with the API for integration - http://steveblank.com/2010/02/22/no-accounting-for-startups/ http://steveblank.com/2010/02/22/no-accounting-for-startups/ - to automatically track your performance...
- robfitz 16y agoThanks for the kind words. And that's a really good idea.. I've been keeping a list of tools & frameworks that seem helpful to startups, and I hope to bring them together and have founders pick & choose the structure they think will be most beneficial to their situation. The accounting is a good addition. It's still unclear where I can add the most value, but, as you mention, there are lots of promising possibilities.
- kirubakaran 16y agoThanks. This is great. Can you add an editable heading for the canvas page please?
- robfitz 16y agoThat sounds like a reasonable request ;) Will plug that in sometime soon.
- wwortiz 16y agoJust as a future heads up that jpg you have on the front page would look much better as a png (nothing mission critical or anything), other than that I'm not a fan of pop up editing but I really can't think of a way you could do it better. Nice work otherwise.