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📔 Canvases, worksheets and templates
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📈 SaaS and Financial Metrics
🛠 Tools and Platforms
📒 Articles and Blog posts
📚 Tiny Guides + Checklists
🚀 Have an epic launch
Last updated: 25/3/2023
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Welcome to Founders' Book 🚀
Founders' Book is your passport to embark on your entrepreneurial journey and take off your startup.
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The Art of starting up. Simplified.
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Simple steps to becoming an entrepreneur 🪜
Have a business idea and don’t know where to begin? If you want to become an entrepreneur, here's how you get started ↓
“ A simple handbook for aspiring, first-time founders and makers planning to turn their passion into a side hustle to a startup “
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🏋️ 3 Y's of Simplified Entrepreneurship + The significant M
💡 x5 Bases
📒 Other resources and templates
+ Many more
Canvases, Templates and Worksheets
- Business model canvas + supporting tools
- Value proposition canvas + supporting tools
Worksheets and "how-to" guides on;
- Problem discovery
- Ideation
- Validation
- Business model
- Pitching
- Strategy and Innovation
- Team and company culture
- Social Impact tools
- Simple GTM strategy
- Idea-Early stage pitch deck
[MVP] Product / Productised Service building canvases you can work on, share and collaborate with your team
Canvases on;
- Business model and lean canvas
- Product positioning canvas
- User story builder
- Product requirements document (PRD)
- Competitor analysis/scorecard
- Capability and SWOT analysis
- 10P's marketing matrix
Startup Financials: Financial Modelling
- stretch your product offering and pricing mix
- Understand income/expenses and profit/loss
- Project your startup's financial performance over the next 5 years
- Input custom MoM/YoY growth rates and churn rates
- Calculate referral charges if you have a referral program organised for all your products/services
- Calculate initial customer acquisition costs (CAC)
- Detailed 5-year financial modelling
- Basic valuation calculator (standard earning multiple methods)
- + Lot more
- ✔ Fundraising checklist
- 🙋♂️ 20+ Common Questions VC's will ask Founders
- 🤯 18 Mistakes that kill startups
- 📊 The Complete Guide to Building a Winning Pitch Deck
Tools and Platforms
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- Product and Project Management
- Ideation, Wireframing and Prototyping
- Landing page and Website builders
- Founder and Gig Education
- Payment Management
- Workflow Automation
- Feature Prioritisation and Management
- Finance Management and Investor Relations & more
Community Building Tools
- Build online communities
- Run Virtual events
- Develop social media campaigns
- Monetize newsletters and blogs
- Templates on community building & more
Tools to support your Side Hustle
- Content creators
- Writers / Bloggers
- Community Leaders
- Event Organisers
- Creatives
- Fitness Coaches
- Online Course Creators & more
Articles and "How-To" Guides
- Ideation
- Company building and product development strategies
- Ocean of resources on product management across all stages
- Guides on various frameworks, methodologies and how companies are leveraging those frameworks
- Templates
- Insider guides + founder learnings
Tiny Guides
Create a startup in a month, that’s it. 30 days to an epic startup: A daily task plan to build your startup. One task in a day.
The goal of your first 90 days should be;
- Set goals (quarterly and annual)
- Build out a roadmap (product, funnel, funding, ops)
- Make your first sale
- Get great at selling (run experiments, identify the traffic-generating channels, monitor activations/conversions, scale)
- Make profit
- Simple steps to get your landing page right
- The ultimate guide to building landing pages for your startup
- Workflow builders that can integrate with your website to move data
- No-Code web app builders
- The simplified product development process
- The lean MVP building process
- Phases involved in building and shipping your MVP (Product 1.0)
- Post-launch metrics and evaluation
- Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop
- What is product management and what do product managers do?
- Components of product management
- Stages involved in product management
- Key actions of a product manager
- Product management tool landscape
- Frameworks and resources to expand your product sense
- UI/UX Design Process
- Phases involved in UI and UX
- Collaborative templates on Miro to brainstorm with your team
- UI and UX tool landscape
A simple framework of tasks and actions to turn your skill into a hustle! This is also a simple guide to making your digital product (productised service) profitable from the launch.
An easy and digestible checklist for first-time founders to get their first 10,100,1000 customers and beyond
- What to do before and after your launch on Product Hunt.
- Different strategies to gain more traction on your launch day
No-Code Bible
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A complete cheatsheet and founders’ perspective on how to leverage no-code tools to build your startup. Breaking down the "product" process and building prototypes and full-scale products to validate and get paying customers.
Build projects and automate work without writing code to de-risk your product development. Move data between different applications to complete a workflow. This is the complete directory of current no-code tools available that can support you at multiple stages.
Places and online communities to discuss, launch and promote your startup
There is no better day than the day you launch your startup. As entrepreneurs, we cherish our product so much that we wait for that perfect “launch-ready” product to share with the world. But the reality is it is iterative. Here is a list of all places where you can run pre-launch campaigns, launch your startup, promote your startup or tell the world about your product's new feature.
- Developers
- Product managers and owners
- Tech and product dev's
- Local communities in 60+ countries
- No-Code / Low-Code focussed communities
- Global communities for startups and scaleups & more
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