Business Foundations
Follow the money, make a choice, explain an assumption and support a recommendation.
4 ordered steps · open self-practice
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Start with a goal, follow a practical route or find a specific skill. The Lab connects its short lessons with the founder's deeper teaching and interview resources.
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Follow the money, make a choice, explain an assumption and support a recommendation.
4 ordered steps · open self-practice
Start this path : Business FoundationsSpecify a bounded task, inspect an evaluation and defend a practical adoption decision.
4 ordered steps · open self-practice
Start this path : Applied AI for ManagersConnect a role to your evidence, practise cases and make your reasoning easier to follow.
6 ordered steps · open self-practice
Start this path : Career and Case PracticeSet your limits, ask about real behaviour, check the economics and design a small test.
6 ordered steps · open self-practice
Start this path : Entrepreneurship Under ConstraintCore paths are open self-practice. Optional academic and beta resources have separate access notes. No account, formal assessment or certificate is included.
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Search by skill, audience or familiar terms such as contribution, customer discovery and consulting. Suggested levels help you choose; they are not admission requirements.
25 resources found
Turn a vague request into a task another person can check. Practise defining the input, expected output, evidence and human decision before choosing an AI tool.
Make or practise: A reusable task brief with a five-point reviewer checklist.
About 20 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Give your AI task a clear briefBuild a small evaluation that reveals errors as well as speed. Compare the whole workflow and write a decision that respects what ten examples can tell you.
Make or practise: A ten-case evaluation plan and a short pilot decision.
About 25 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Test AI before you trust the workflowChoose a customer promise, identify the request you will decline and connect the choice to daily activities. Practise a decision under a real capacity constraint.
Make or practise: A one-page choice map with a trade-off and a reversal condition.
About 20 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Make a strategic choice you can defendSeparate sales from contribution, find a simple break-even point and test a discount against capacity. Use transparent arithmetic to improve a business decision.
Make or practise: A contribution calculation, break-even check and pricing decision memo.
About 25 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Read your unit economics before you growTurn an uncertain idea into a commitment you can manage. Set limits on money and time, use what you already have and decide what would justify another step.
Make or practise: An experiment card with a budget, time limit and stop/continue rule.
About 20 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Set an affordable loss for your first experimentMove from ‘Do you like my idea?’ to a useful conversation about a recent problem. Build a short interview guide and separate observations from assumptions.
Make or practise: A five-question interview guide and an evidence log for the next test.
About 20 minutes
Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Open the resource : Ask customer questions that reveal behaviourDo/avoid guidance for case preparation, interviews, assignments and building.
Make or practise: A verification, disclosure and ownership checklist for your next AI-assisted draft.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + self-practice
The guide is open. Trying tool examples needs your chosen AI assistant; no tool is needed to read.
Open the resource : Use AI while keeping the judgement yoursTry the programme's original demonstration and inspect its public workflow example.
Make or practise: An adoption decision that accounts for errors, review effort and human responsibility.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Decision exercise + downloadable text example
The sample is open. The surrounding full programme is proposed; this is not enrolment.
Open the resource : Inspect an AI workflow adoption decisionA readiness studio connecting your experience, target role and interview evidence.
Make or practise: A role thesis, a capability-gap list and examples you can defend in an interview.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive readiness check + reading + prompts
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Choose a role and build an evidence bankSix framework families with diagrams, questions and worked mini examples.
Make or practise: A case structure that follows the problem instead of forcing a memorised template.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive framework explorer + diagrams + reading
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Choose a structure for a consulting caseDefine, decompose, estimate and sanity-check with worked arithmetic examples.
Make or practise: A transparent estimate with units, assumptions and a second plausibility check.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive example explorer + worked calculations
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Estimate a market and defend your assumptionsThree original market-entry, growth and pricing cases with staged exhibits.
Make or practise: A case recommendation tied to the exhibits, risks and a useful next test.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Case prompts + exhibits + synthesis guidance
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Read exhibits and synthesise a recommendationOriginal prompts spanning retention, pricing, competitive response, causal reasoning and diligence.
Make or practise: An independent case attempt revised against the questions a strong answer should raise.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Case prompts + expandable review guidance
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Practise ten cases before revealing the guidanceLeadership, conflict and judgement questions, plus an evidence ladder for resume claims.
Make or practise: A specific interview story with your decisions, actions, results and limitations.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Question groups + evidence prompts
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Defend the evidence behind an interview storyFive effectuation principles and a first-two-weeks action checklist.
Make or practise: A bounded idea, affordable-loss limit, five conversation plan and smallest test.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive principle tabs + activities + checklist
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Turn a startup idea into a small real testCompare retention patterns and possible responses when repeat use is weak.
Make or practise: A retention interpretation and a specific next learning action.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + retention comparison + PPTX slides
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Read retention before claiming product-market fitA six-part outline with investor, customer and prospective-hire perspectives.
Make or practise: A two-minute pitch outline grounded in a problem, evidence and a specific ask.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + pitch outline + PPTX slides
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Structure a pitch for the person listeningEarly-hire traits, red flags and equity/co-founder discussion prompts.
Make or practise: An early-hire criteria list and questions about equity, vesting and decision rights.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + checklists + PPTX slides
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Make deliberate choices about your first teamBootstrapping, debt and equity with a worked ownership table and investor questions.
Make or practise: A funding comparison and an explained founder-ownership calculation.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + worked dilution table + PPTX slides
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Compare funding routes and follow dilutionAdvantage sources, examples and a one-page map with a copy test.
Make or practise: A one-page advantage map and a reasoned twelve-month copy test.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Reading + mapping exercise + PPTX slides
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Open the resource : Map an advantage and test how easily it can be copiedAn academic course map connecting analysis, formulation and implementation.
Make or practise: A route to deeper strategy sessions, reading lists and interactive activities.
13 academic sessions; not a self-paced completion estimate
Academic course map + linked session resources
The map is public. Academic enrolment, licensed readings and course-folder access are separate.
Open the resource : Explore the thirteen-session MBA strategy sequenceInteractive strategy activities, a productivity frontier and decision-memo practice.
Make or practise: An explained strategic choice and a first decision-memo attempt.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive session + reading + workshops + checks
Public session activities are available. Referenced course-pack readings remain separately accessed.
Open the resource : Explore strategic choices through an activity systemSession practice questions with worked rationales.
Make or practise: A list of concepts to revisit, based on your practice answers and explanations.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Interactive quiz + worked rationales
Public practice only. Quiz performance does not award academic marks or Lab certification.
Open the resource : Check your reasoning on the first strategy sessionA twenty-session academic outline across markets, operations, finance, people and ESG.
Make or practise: A framework for explaining how business decisions affect one another.
20-session academic outline; not a self-paced completion estimate
Course outline + decision/debrief guidance
Reading the page is open. It does not provide a simulation licence, account or academic enrolment.
Open the resource : Connect strategy to cross-functional simulation decisionsA public directory linking to personal beta builds, including AI Viva Bot.
Make or practise: A view of an experimental practice tool and its current setup requirements.
Self-paced; no published time estimate
Directory + external beta application links
Optional external prototypes. Check each app's credentials/data requirements; no live assessment or reliability is promised.
Open the directory : Inspect the founder's optional AI prototypesMinute estimates come from the existing six mini-courses. Other resources have no fixed self-paced time estimate. Public links do not provide licences or access to separately assigned readings.