- Liftoff origins, outcomes, outputs
- Liftoff commitment to success
- Liftoff schedule and agenda
- On-site arrangements
- Showcase of work in progress
- TEAM FOCUS: TEAM is interpersonal
- TEAM FOCUS: FOCUS is analytical
- Ground rules
- Lean coffee
- Agile chartering
- The PRIMES
- Strategic management
- Strategic control
- Strategy map
- Balanced scorecard
- Vision statement and mission statement
- SWOT analysis: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
- PESTLE analysis: political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental
- Five forces analysis: entrants, substitutes, customers, suppliers, competitors
- Agoge and The Gates of Fire
- OODA loop: observe, orient, decide, act
- OODA loop: the strategic theory
- EBFAS organizational climate
- Intent plan
- Objectives and key results (OKR)
- Objectives and key results (OKR) - templates by SixArm.com
- Objectives and key results (OKR) - examples by Attim
- Key performance indicator (KPI)
- Key performance indicator (KPI) - examples
- Key risk indicator (KRI)
- Key risk indicator (KRI) - examples by Deloitte
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Introduction
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany - Customer Development
- Customer development
- Customer development manifesto
- Minimum viable product (MVP)
- Minimum viable product (MVP) - related terms
- Use case
- Behavior-driven development
- Agile software development
- Software Engineering Method and Theory (SEMAT)
- Domain-driven design (DDD)
- Domain-driven design (DDD) - relationships to other ideas
- Domain-specific language (DSL)
- Unified Modeling Language (UML) - TODO
- Systems Modeling Language (SysML)
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - TODO
- Extensible markup language (XML) - TODO
- Strategy Markup Language (StratML)
- Financial products Markup Language (FpML)
- Outliers: 10,000 Hours of Practice
- Outliers: in love with practice
- Practice and feedback
- Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback - goal items
- Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback - feedback items
- What is required for a product to succeed?
- The Beginner’s Guide to Startup Analytics
- Startup analytics best practices
- Net Promoter Score (NPS)
- Five whys (5 whys) root cause analysis
- Eight disciplines (8Ds) problem solving
- Ishikawa diagram a.k.a. fishbone diagram
- Failure mode and effects analysis
- 7 startup questions by Peter Thiel
- Investment readiness level
- Pitch deck template by SixArm.com
- Start with a compelling narrative - advice by Atrium.co
- 16 Non-Obvious Fundraising Lessons On Pitching - By NfX
- Steve Blank startup advice
- Do things that don't scale - by Paul Graham - excerpts
- The Pocket Guide of Essential YC Advice
- How to succeed with a startup - By Sam Altman
- The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail
Books to read, in order of importance for immediate tactical usefulness.
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company
Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
Lean Customer Development: Building Products Your Customers Will Buy
The Lean Startup: ... Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers
The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company
Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
The Primes: How Any Group Can Solve Any Problem
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High