Starting a Business
A working understanding of how to start, validate, launch, and scale a real business. The trunk walks the founder arc from mindset and customer discovery through business models, MVPs, positioning, operations, sales, fundraising, and leadership. Clusters dive deep into the tactical playbooks behind each act — interview techniques, MVP fidelity, pricing, channels, term sheets, hiring, unit economics.
1 pillars1 courses59 concepts
What you'll learn
Main Path
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Starting a Business(59 concepts)
- What Entrepreneurship Actually Is
- Myths That Quietly Kill First-Time Founders
- Growth Mindset and the Founder Operating System
- Deciding Under Uncertainty
- First-Principles Thinking for Builders
- Founder Time, Energy, and Sustainability
- The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Where to Get Help
- Jobs-to-Be-Done — What Customers Actually Hire You For
- Customer Personas Without the Stock Photos
- Problem Interviews — How to Ask Without Leading
- Pain Severity and Existing Alternatives
- Problem Validation — Knowing When You Have One
- Beachhead Markets — Picking Where to Win First
- Market Sizing — TAM, SAM, SOM Without the Theatre
- What Value Actually Is
- Value Propositions That Survive a Cold Read
- The Business Model Canvas at a Glance
- Revenue Models — How You Actually Get Paid
- Cost Structures and What Scales With What
- The Lean Startup Loop — Build, Measure, Learn
- Riskiest Assumption Testing
- MVPs — The Smallest Thing That Teaches You Something
- Pivot vs Persevere
- Mapping the Competitive Landscape
- Crafting a Unique Value Proposition
- Positioning — Choosing the Frame the Customer Sees
- Differentiation That Compounds
- Go-to-Market Strategy Basics
- Building the First Real Product
- UX and User Flows for Non-Designers
- Launching — Soft, Hard, and Everything Between
- Product-Market Fit — What It Actually Feels Like
- Picking a Business Entity
- Intellectual Property at the Founder Level
- Co-Founder Agreements Before They Hurt
- Reading the Three Financial Statements
- Cash Flow, Runway, and Burn
- Pricing — The Most Underused Lever
- Brand Identity Beyond the Logo
- Picking 1-2 Marketing Channels and Going Deep
- Founder-Led Sales — The Required Phase
- Building a Repeatable Sales Process
- Conversion Optimization and the Funnel
- CAC, LTV, and the Unit-Economics Spine
- Reducing Churn and Building Retention
- Revenue Operations — Connecting Sales, Marketing, Product
- Bootstrapping vs Fundraising
- Funding Stages and What Each Buys You
- What Investors Actually Look For
- Pitch Decks That Don't Bury the Lede
- Valuation, Dilution, and the Cap Table
- Term Sheets — The Terms That Actually Matter
- Investor Relations After the Money
- Growth Levers and Loops
- Scaling Operations Without Breaking
- When and How to Hire
- Defining Culture on Purpose
- Delegation, 1:1s, and Becoming a Manager
- Strategic Leadership and the Long Game
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Frequently asked questions
What does the Starting a Business roadmap cover?
1 courses broken into 59 bite-size concepts, each taught as an interactive lesson with quizzes and spaced review.
Do I need prior experience to start?
No. The roadmap starts from fundamentals and builds in prerequisite order — each concept unlocks the next, so you're never thrown into material you haven't been prepared for. If you already know the basics, a placement check skips you ahead.
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