🚀 Startup Methodology

Frameworks and field-tested strategies for building companies from scratch, from lean experimentation to scaling. For founders and builders who want structure amid the chaos of creation.

Sprint

by Jake Knapp • 2016

The five-day sprint that replaces endless debate with sketch, decide, prototype, and test.

4.18

24k+

🧠 Design Thinking 🚀 Lean Startup 🛠️ Rapid Prototyping 🔍 User Research ✅ Validated Learning

Sprint

The five-day sprint that replaces endless debate with sketch, decide, prototype, and test.

by Jake Knapp 2016

4.18

24k+ ratings

🧠 Design Thinking 🚀 Lean Startup 🛠️ Rapid Prototyping 🔍 User Research ✅ Validated Learning

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

by Steve Blank • 2003

Build it and they will come is a lie. The startup playbook: learn, then build.

3.96

17k+

🔄 Lean Startup 🔍 Customer Research 💼 Business Models 🎯 Market Segmentation 👤 Founders

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Build it and they will come is a lie. The startup playbook: learn, then build.

by Steve Blank 2003

3.96

17k+ ratings

🔄 Lean Startup 🔍 Customer Research 💼 Business Models 🎯 Market Segmentation 👤 Founders

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

by Bill Aulet • 2013

Replace startup guesswork with a repeatable system for finding customers and proving they will pay.

4.27

2k+

👤 Customer Development 📋 Business Model Design ✅ Market Validation 📈 Customer Acquisition 💡 Value Proposition

Disciplined Entrepreneurship

Replace startup guesswork with a repeatable system for finding customers and proving they will pay.

by Bill Aulet 2013

4.27

2k+ ratings

👤 Customer Development 📋 Business Model Design ✅ Market Validation 📈 Customer Acquisition 💡 Value Proposition

The Right It

by Alberto Savoia • 2019

Skill can't save an unwanted idea. Fast, cheap experiments that test market demand before building.

4.30

850

✅ Product Validation 🧪 Lean Experimentation 📉 Lean Startup 📊 Data-Driven Decisions 👶 Early Stage Founders

The Right It

Skill can't save an unwanted idea. Fast, cheap experiments that test market demand before building.

by Alberto Savoia 2019

4.30

850 ratings

✅ Product Validation 🧪 Lean Experimentation 📉 Lean Startup 📊 Data-Driven Decisions 👶 Early Stage Founders

Awakening the Entrepreneur Within

by Michael E. Gerber • 2008

Dream, story, system: the path anyone can follow to build a business that scales without them.

3.59

461

🧠 Entrepreneurial Mindset 💡 Business Storytelling 📈 Scaling A Business 🎯 Purpose-Driven Business 🔧 Business Systems

Awakening the Entrepreneur Within

Dream, story, system: the path anyone can follow to build a business that scales without them.

by Michael E. Gerber 2008

3.59

461 ratings

🧠 Entrepreneurial Mindset 💡 Business Storytelling 📈 Scaling A Business 🎯 Purpose-Driven Business 🔧 Business Systems

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