🗺️ Planning
Business plans, lean canvases, financial projections — without the MBA fluff.
The Lean Canvas (Ash Maurya, 2010) replaced 40-page business plans with a single page. Use it....
Investors don't read 40-page plans. They read one-pagers and decide whether to take the meeting....
A financial model is a story told in numbers. Three sheets:...
Unit economics is the question: "Does each customer make us money?" If no, more customers makes things worse, not better....
Runway = cash on hand ÷ monthly burn. If you have $200K and burn $25K/mo, you have 8 months....
SWOT (Strengths · Weaknesses · Opportunities · Threats) gets a bad rap because it's used badly. Used right, it's a 30-minute reality check....
You can't focus on 14 metrics. Pick 3:...
Quarterly roadmaps fail because the world changes monthly. Run Now / Next / Later:...