Make deliberate choices about your first team
Early-hire traits, red flags and equity/co-founder discussion prompts.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
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An open learning path
Set your limits, ask about real behaviour, check the economics and design a small test.
Your practice route
0 of 6 steps ticked by you. These ticks record practice, not mastery or assessed completion.
Suggested next step
Set an affordable loss for your first experiment →Open a resource, return here and tick it when you have practised. Saving is optional and limited to this browser.
About 20 minutes · Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
Your work: An experiment card with a budget, time limit and stop/continue rule.
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
About 20 minutes · Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
Your work: A five-question interview guide and an evidence log for the next test.
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
About 25 minutes · Reading + decision exercise + worksheet
Your work: A contribution calculation, break-even check and pricing decision memo.
No account or paid software required. Self-practice; no certificate.
Self-paced; no published time estimate · Interactive principle tabs + activities + checklist
Your work: A bounded idea, affordable-loss limit, five conversation plan and smallest test.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Self-paced; no published time estimate · Reading + retention comparison + PPTX slides
Your work: A retention interpretation and a specific next learning action.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Self-paced; no published time estimate · Reading + pitch outline + PPTX slides
Your work: A two-minute pitch outline grounded in a problem, evidence and a specific ask.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
The independent challenge
Develop a hypothetical venture or a safe experiment you can genuinely run. Separate what customers did from what you infer, explain the cost/capacity limit and decide the next bounded step.
Use fictional examples and avoid personal or confidential information. This draft is not sent to an instructor or an AI service.
Optional depth
Early-hire traits, red flags and equity/co-founder discussion prompts.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Explore the resource →Bootstrapping, debt and equity with a worked ownership table and investor questions.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
Explore the resource →Advantage sources, examples and a one-page map with a copy test.
Public reading and self-practice. No enrolment, human review or certificate included.
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