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#1Customer Discovery / Getting Out of the BuildingHighTo Do
Replace your assumptions about who wants your product and why with firsthand evidence gathered from the people who would actually buy it.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 0 days after project start · takes 14 days
#2Founding Team Quality & CohesionHighTo Do
What makes a founding team more than the sum of its résumés: complementarity across the Hacker (makes the product), Hustler (runs the business), and Hipster (owns customer experience) roles, coachability, shared vision, and the ability to fight productively. You stress-test alignment on vision, roles, commitment, and failure scenarios before the first conflict—and learn why team composition is the most underrated startup variable.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 14 days after project start · takes 14 days
#3Founder Psychology, Passion & ResilienceHighTo Do
Builds the inner operating system that lets you persist through the crises that define startup life: reframing setbacks as data rather than verdicts, converting psychological pressure into action bias, and anchoring persistence to a fixed compass value rather than fear. Resilience here means sustained decision quality under pressure—not refusal to ever stop—and is treated as a trainable discipline, not a personality trait.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 28 days after project start · takes 7 days
#4Customer-Centric MindsetMediumTo Do
Builds the behavioral discipline of consistently placing customer observations above founder assumptions. You learn to substitute watching and measuring for asking and imagining, so product decisions are grounded in what customers actually do—not what they say they want. The mindset is treated as an organizational output to deliberately manufacture, not a natural attitude.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 35 days after project start · takes 7 days
#5Structured Solution Ideation & PrototypingMediumTo Do
Apply a repeatable method for generating and stress-testing product ideas before committing engineering time—running structured brainstorms with the right constraints and improv rules, producing lo-fi prototypes quickly, and translating the most promising signals into a defined problem-solution hypothesis you can test with real customers.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 42 days after project start · takes 7 days
#6Vision Clarity & Strategic ObjectiveMediumTo Do
Focus on about defining a written, shared vision and strategic objective specific enough that people can make aligned decisions without asking you.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 49 days after project start · takes 7 days
#7Market Focus / Beachhead SelectionHighTo Do
Pick a single narrow segment to dominate first, and why deliberately turning away other customers accelerates you.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 56 days after project start · takes 14 days
#8Minimum Viable ProductHighTo Do
Scope the smallest product that generates real customer learning and how to decide, from feedback, whether to iterate or pivot.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 70 days after project start · takes 14 days
#9Quantified Value Proposition / Compelling OfferHighTo Do
Express your value in numbers tied to the customer's top priority, against the alternatives they'd otherwise choose.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 84 days after project start · takes 14 days
#10Competitive Positioning & DefensibilityHighTo Do
Position your product as the obvious best choice against every alternative—including the customer doing nothing.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 98 days after project start · takes 14 days
#11Market Size & AttractivenessHighTo Do
Assess whether the market you're entering is large and growing enough to build a real company—and how that assessment shapes investor and strategic decisions.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 112 days after project start · takes 14 days
#12Market Type & Competitive ContextHighTo Do
Use the four market-entry types—existing, re-segmented, new, and clone—and shows how each dictates a fundamentally different spending, timing, and revenue playbook for your company.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 126 days after project start · takes 14 days
#13Pricing & Business Model FitHighTo Do
How you'll capture value—the model category and the pricing—so that what you charge tracks the benefit you deliver and what customers will pay.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 140 days after project start · takes 14 days
#14Validated LearningHighTo Do
Use the discipline to turn your riskiest beliefs into experiments with pass/fail thresholds set in advance, so you learn instead of merely confirming what you hoped.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 154 days after project start · takes 14 days
#15Hypothesis-Driven Experimentation & IterationHighTo Do
Convert vague founder intuitions into pass/fail experiments and how to decide when results mean iterate versus pivot.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 168 days after project start · takes 14 days
#16Metric Focus & Data InstrumentationMediumTo Do
Instrument your product and choose the few metrics that matter at your current stage, so decisions rest on evidence instead of the loudest opinion in the room. You'll learn to set targets before you look at data.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 182 days after project start · takes 7 days
#17Action Orientation / Bias to ShipHighTo Do
Clarifies when velocity is your decisive weapon and how to move fast without confusing motion for progress.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 189 days after project start · takes 14 days
#18Product/Market FitHighTo Do
Recognize product/market fit by its unmistakable symptoms and warns you against declaring it prematurely.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 203 days after project start · takes 14 days
#19Customer Retention, Engagement & Habit FormationHighTo Do
Measure and defend the ongoing use that keeps customers from leaking away after you win them. You'll learn to distinguish retention curves that flatten from those that decay to zero.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 217 days after project start · takes 14 days
#20Whole Product & Partner EcosystemHighTo Do
What a pragmatist buyer actually needs beyond your core product — the integrations, services, and partners that make your solution usable for their full objective.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 231 days after project start · takes 14 days
#21Customer Acquisition & Distribution ChannelsHighTo Do
Find the one or two channels that reliably and affordably bring in customers at scale, rather than dabbling in all of them at once.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 245 days after project start · takes 14 days
#22Customer Traction & AcquisitionHighTo Do
Define what real traction looks like—paying, retained, growing demand—and separates it from the vanity signals that fool founders and investors alike.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 259 days after project start · takes 14 days
#23Unit Economics (LTV / CAC)HighTo Do
Teaches you to compute LTV and CAC honestly and read their ratio as a verdict on whether growth makes you richer or poorer. You'll learn which costs and revenues actually belong in each number.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 273 days after project start · takes 14 days
#24Investor Readiness & Fundraising FitLowTo Do
The state of preparedness — data room, milestones, corporate housekeeping, funding plan — plus targeting investors who actually fit your stage and sector.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 287 days after project start · takes 3 days
#25Target Persona & Customer SpecificityMediumTo Do
Compress a fuzzy 'target market' into one concrete person whose priorities and buying process your whole team can name.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 290 days after project start · takes 7 days
#26Activation / Aha MomentMediumTo Do
The two distinct events you must engineer: the first 'aha' moment where value lands, and the reinforcement loop that turns one visit into a routine. You'll learn to define both in measurable terms specific to your product.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 297 days after project start · takes 7 days
#27Word-of-Mouth & ViralityMediumTo Do
Distinguishes true referral-driven growth from paid acquisition dressed up as organic, and shows how to engineer shareability into the product.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 304 days after project start · takes 7 days
#28Audience Building via Content & PlatformHighTo Do
Building a direct, recurring relationship with an audience you own — followers who return for your content and can be monetized without renting access from a platform algorithm.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 311 days after project start · takes 14 days
#29Rigorous Hiring & Talent AcquisitionMediumTo Do
Compete for high-caliber people when you can't match salaries, and how to keep them through vesting horizons and the inevitable rough stretches.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 325 days after project start · takes 7 days
#30Scaling Techniques & Management AdaptationHighTo Do
Use the map for how your leadership job changes as headcount and complexity multiply, and which systems must replace your personal involvement at each threshold.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 332 days after project start · takes 14 days
#31Lean Operation & BootstrappingMediumTo Do
The choice between bootstrapping for control and focus versus raising to fund growth ahead of revenue — and how that choice moderates what kind of growth is even possible.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 346 days after project start · takes 7 days
#32Capital Availability & Funding RaisedMediumTo Do
Focus on about actually closing a round at acceptable terms — and connecting that close to the exit proceeds and returns stakeholders eventually realize.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 353 days after project start · takes 7 days
#33Investor Perceived Risk, Trust & ValueMediumTo Do
Address the subjective judgment investors form about failure risk and founder credibility — the real currency behind funding decisions and terms.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 360 days after project start · takes 7 days
#34Startup ValuationMediumTo Do
Use the deal literacy to derive a defensible valuation and to negotiate the terms — liquidation preferences, anti-dilution, control — that matter more than the headline number.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 367 days after project start · takes 7 days
#35Equity Structure & Cap TableMediumTo Do
How founder splits, option pools, share classes, and vesting mechanics govern who owns what across funding rounds.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 374 days after project start · takes 7 days
#36Profitability & Financial DisciplineMediumTo Do
Address turning use into money and money into margin—the recurring income and cost structure that let the venture fund itself. You'll learn when top-line growth is real and when it's disguised subsidy.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 381 days after project start · takes 7 days
#37Customer Trust & CredibilityMediumTo Do
Build the perception that your product and company are safe, proven, and supportable enough to bet on.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 388 days after project start · takes 7 days
#38Customer Adoption & Willingness to PayMediumTo Do
Define the behavioral evidence—use, payment, and advocacy—that proves customers actually value your product, not just say they do.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 395 days after project start · takes 7 days
#39Repeatable & Scalable Business ModelMediumTo Do
What it means to have a business model where sales are predictable and repeatable and where more spend reliably yields more revenue.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 402 days after project start · takes 7 days
#40Exit & Stakeholder ReturnsMediumTo Do
How liquidity events actually distribute money among founders, employees, and investors, and how earlier structural choices govern who gets what.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 409 days after project start · takes 7 days
#41Founder Freedom & FulfillmentMediumTo Do
Address the autonomy and quality of life the business is supposed to produce for you, and why it does not arrive automatically with success.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 416 days after project start · takes 7 days
#42Disruptive Innovation & Incumbent DynamicsHighTo Do
Structure and fund a genuinely disruptive line so it isn't strangled by the pull of your existing business and customers.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 423 days after project start · takes 14 days
#43Process Documentation & SystematizationMediumTo Do
Build the company as a replicable system — documented, simplified, consistently-run core processes — so results don't depend on any one person's memory.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 437 days after project start · takes 7 days
#44Chasm Crossing / Mainstream EntryHighTo Do
Address the hardest transition in a young company's life: moving from early enthusiast customers to a self-sustaining mainstream segment.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 444 days after project start · takes 14 days
#45Sustainable, Scalable GrowthHighTo Do
Define what makes growth repeatable and compounding rather than a one-time spike, and how to identify your working engine of growth. You'll learn to tell a scalable channel from a temporarily lucky one.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 458 days after project start · takes 14 days
#46Company Survival & SuccessHighTo Do
The ultimate outcome—a company that survives existential threats and wins its market—and the factors that moderate whether you reach it. You'll learn what actually kills companies versus what founders fear kills them.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 472 days after project start · takes 14 days
#47Organizational Culture, Trust & AlignmentHighTo Do
Build the interpersonal foundation — trust, safety, and transmitted culture — that lets a founding team argue productively and stay intact as headcount grows. You get the mechanics of how founders manufacture candor rather than wait for it.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 486 days after project start · takes 14 days
#48Accountability & Execution DisciplineHighTo Do
Turning a shared vision into an accountable operating state — clear roles, owned numbers, open communication, and people held to results.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 500 days after project start · takes 14 days
#49Engagement Mechanics (Triggers, Rewards, Investment)LowTo Do
Breaks down the trigger–action–reward–investment loop and how to engineer it so use becomes habitual rather than effortful.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 514 days after project start · takes 3 days
#50Data / Evidence-Based Decision CultureLowTo Do
Install a weekly rhythm of tracking activity-based numbers, with a number assigned to every person, to keep an objective pulse on the business.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 517 days after project start · takes 3 days
#51Team Development & Feedback SystemsLowTo Do
Build the structures, norms, and review rhythms that grow both skill and commitment after you've hired well.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 520 days after project start · takes 3 days
#52Leadership Transparency & CommunicationLowTo Do
Communicate the company's real state—including bad news—and how to handle sensitive decisions in ways that compound trust.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 523 days after project start · takes 3 days
#53Term Sheet & Deal TermsLowTo Do
Builds the deal literacy to read a term sheet for what it actually does—especially the control and downside-protection clauses that outweigh the valuation.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 526 days after project start · takes 3 days
#54Equity Incentive Alignment & RetentionLowTo Do
Structure options, pools, and vesting so equity actually recruits and holds people instead of quietly triggering tax bombs or resentment.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 529 days after project start · takes 3 days
#55Cash Allocation System (Profit First)LowTo Do
The Profit First method of partitioning revenue into designated accounts on a fixed rhythm so profitability is enforced by structure rather than willpower.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 532 days after project start · takes 3 days
#56Core DefensibilityMediumTo Do
Address what makes your competitive advantage self-reinforcing over time rather than merely temporary—the network effects, switching costs, proprietary data, and ecosystem lock-in that make your market position harder to attack the longer you hold it. You learn to distinguish a durable moat from a head start, and how to deliberately deepen defensibility as the company scales.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 535 days after project start · takes 7 days
#57Capital Allocation & Per-Share ValueMediumTo Do
The discipline of ranking every investment alternative by its risk-adjusted return and directing capital toward uses that grow value per share—not top-line revenue or headcount—so the company compounds owner value rather than diluting it. You learn when reinvestment beats distributions and how to read the allocation decisions that separate durable great companies from temporarily successful ones.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 542 days after project start · takes 7 days
#58Issue Solving DisciplineMediumTo Do
Use the structured practice of surfacing issues openly, identifying root causes rather than symptoms, and assigning clear accountability for resolution—so problems do not recur and your leadership team builds a track record of closing the loop. You learn the weekly rhythm that keeps issues from aging and the facilitation moves that prevent meetings from ending on the problem instead of the fix.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 549 days after project start · takes 7 days
#59Employee Motivation & EngagementMediumTo Do
Build the systems, rhythms, and individual attention that sustain motivation and discretionary effort from employees after the initial hire—covering goal alignment, recognition, autonomy, and the feedback loops that keep people growing rather than disengaging as the company scales beyond the founding team.
Assignee: Unassigned · due 556 days after project start · takes 7 days