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**10** knowledge-base sections · **19** prompts · **10** worksheets · **30** infographics · **92** indexed external resources · **24** pages of method · a portfolio layer for programmes · a published site, generated from these files
**10** knowledge-base sections · **19** prompts · **10** worksheets · **30** infographics · **653** indexed external resources · **28** pages of method · a portfolio layer for programmes · a published site, generated from these files

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| [`stack/`](stack/) | **The templates.** Ten numbered sections — company, customer, market, product, GTM, operations, money, capital, brand, pulse — one markdown file each, with front matter. [`stack/INDEX.md`](stack/INDEX.md) is the router an AI reads first, and [`stack/CONTEXT.md`](stack/CONTEXT.md) is the one-pager it reads next. This *becomes* your knowledge base; you fill it in, you do not copy it out. |
| [`prompts/`](prompts/INDEX.md) | **The prompt library.** 19 prompts: bootstrap, gap scan, competitive intelligence, unit economics, the list of 100, the pitch deck, fundraise readiness, the weekly recap, meeting-to-actions, and the adversarial review that tells you what an investor will attack. Each opens with a `Requires:` line and stops if what it needs is missing. Most want a filled-in stack; [`00`](prompts/00-bootstrap-the-stack.md), [`14`](prompts/14-meeting-to-actions.md) and [`15`](prompts/15-scrape-a-site.md) run against an empty one, which is how a stack starts to fill. The last three belong to `portfolio/` and never touch a founder's stack. |
| [`worksheets/`](worksheets/) | **The repeatable artifacts.** Fill-in files you produce over and over: startup-prep, customer interview, competitor profile, two-week experiment, SOP entry, trade/order sheet, advisor scope letter, one-pager, list of 100, weekly recap. |
| [`docs/`](docs/) | **The method, in twenty-four pages.** New to any of this: [AI basics](docs/ai-basics.md) and [what the words mean](docs/what-things-are.md) — the terminal, an editor, Git, GitHub, connectors, model tiers — each in plain language with a diagram. The method: [why it works](docs/method.md), [building the knowledge base](docs/knowledge-base.md), [the front-matter schema](docs/front-matter.md), [getting your material in](docs/getting-material-in.md) source by source, and [website to inbox](docs/scraping.md). Running it: [the weekly recap](docs/weekly-recap.md), [for coaches](docs/for-coaches.md), [the safety rules](docs/safety.md) for giving an AI access to your files, and [on a schedule](docs/automation.md) — recipes for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, and none of them. Two are for programmes only: [for programmes](docs/for-portfolios.md) and [the exchange folder](docs/exchange.md). And [the infographics](docs/infographics.md) — thirty pictures across four pages, covering [what AI is](docs/infographics-ai.md), [the tools](docs/infographics-tools.md), [the method](docs/infographics-method.md) and [running a portfolio](docs/infographics-portfolio.md); take them for a workshop. Last, [startup resources](docs/resources.md) — 92 external articles, templates and videos worth reading, credited to their publishers and grouped across six pages. |
| [`docs/`](docs/) | **The method, in twenty-eight pages.** New to any of this: [AI basics](docs/ai-basics.md) and [what the words mean](docs/what-things-are.md) — the terminal, an editor, Git, GitHub, connectors, model tiers — each in plain language with a diagram. The method: [why it works](docs/method.md), [building the knowledge base](docs/knowledge-base.md), [the front-matter schema](docs/front-matter.md), [getting your material in](docs/getting-material-in.md) source by source, and [website to inbox](docs/scraping.md). Running it: [the weekly recap](docs/weekly-recap.md), [for coaches](docs/for-coaches.md), [the safety rules](docs/safety.md) for giving an AI access to your files, and [on a schedule](docs/automation.md) — recipes for Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, and none of them. Two are for programmes only: [for programmes](docs/for-portfolios.md) and [the exchange folder](docs/exchange.md). And [the infographics](docs/infographics.md) — thirty pictures across four pages, covering [what AI is](docs/infographics-ai.md), [the tools](docs/infographics-tools.md), [the method](docs/infographics-method.md) and [running a portfolio](docs/infographics-portfolio.md); take them for a workshop. Last, [startup resources](docs/resources.md) — 653 external articles, videos, templates and tools worth reading, credited to their publishers and grouped across nine pages. |
| [`portfolio/`](portfolio/) | **Optional — for a programme, not a founder.** The templates an incubator, accelerator or studio uses to run this across many companies: a router, a 1-to-5 maturity rubric per function, the cross-company theme scan, and a company folder to copy. Delete it if you are a founder. See [docs/for-portfolios.md](docs/for-portfolios.md). |
| [`_inbox/`](_inbox/) | Where raw material lands before it is processed. Git-ignored by default. |
| [`tools/`](tools/) | **Optional.** [`scrape-site.mjs`](tools/scrape-site.mjs) turns a website into citable markdown in `_inbox/` — you never need it, it saves an hour of copy-and-paste ([docs/scraping.md](docs/scraping.md)). [`make-og.mjs`](tools/make-og.mjs) redraws the social card at the top of this page; run it if you fork and rename. A third tool lives in its own repository: [**site2deck**](https://github.com/fritzhand/site2deck) samples a company's colours, fonts and logo off its website and builds a branded, offline, single-file slide deck — the object to put in front of a room once [prompt 10](prompts/10-pitch-deck.md) has written what goes in it. Same habits as this repo: zero dependencies, Node only, unknowns marked loudly rather than filled in, and a `--public` build that strips anything tagged internal and refuses to ship if one survives. |
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# Climate and policy
# Climate and impact

The climate and energy material specific to this collection, which was assembled by three climate organisations. Emissions tooling, policy reference and energy transition research.
The climate, energy and social responsibility material. Emissions tooling, policy reference, energy transition research, and running a company responsibly.

4 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Every link was reachable when this page was generated.
14 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Sub-headings are the topic each was filed under in its source collection.

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## Climate and impact

- **[GhG Evaluation Tool](https://cranetool.org/)** · CRANE — CRANE tool for estimating greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
- **[Next Power Capital Workshop on Project Finance](https://nextpowercapital.com/)** · Next Power Capital — Workshop on project finance structuring and modelling.
- **[Policy Hub For Climate and Energy Solutions](https://www.c2es.org/category/policy-hub/)** · Center for Climate and Energy Solutions — C2ES reference hub on climate and energy policy.
- **[Roadmap to Navigate Energy Transition](https://www.oxfordenergy.org/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/A-road-map-to-navigate-the-energy-transition-Insight-59.pdf)** · Oxford Institute for Energy Studies — Oxford institute research on energy transition pathways and sector shifts.

## Environmental & social responsibility

- **[5 Ways Esg Creates Value for Companies, Beyond Virtue Signalling](https://medium.com/social-innovation-japan/5-ways-esg-creates-value-for-companies-beyond-value-signaling-699b574a7e56)**
- **[Affecting Change From the Inside – Attracting the Environmentally Conscious Millennial](https://climate-change-apac.environmentalbusinessreview.com/cxoinsight/affecting-change-from-the-inside-attracting-the-environmentally-conscious-millennial-nwid-517.html)** · climate-change-apac.environmentalbusinessreview.com
- **[ESG Checklist for Startups](https://www.cooleygo.com/esg-checklist-for-startups/)** · Cooley GO
- **[How to Develop a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy: Solving Business Problems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLKayMdqDMs&list=PL-b_U5v6TQk3x3sauaJ_gUGe2WIqb5KC9&index=2)**
- **[Let’s Scale Purpose – Why Combining Purpose With Profit Should Be the New Recipe for Impact](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-scale-purpose-why-combining-profit-should-new-recipe-anna-alex/?trackingId=G%2FFVE%2FY3TrGNplXHQBxR1w%3D%3D)**
- **[Social & Environmental Sustainability: What Startups Can Do Right Now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAMznY4xauA&t=228s)**
- **[Steps in a CSR Strategy: How to Create a Compelling Case for Your Program](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXJ6L0Pl1EY&list=PL-b_U5v6TQk3x3sauaJ_gUGe2WIqb5KC9&index=3)**
- **[Strategy Planning and Corporate Social Responsibility: Creating a CSR Strategy (Part 1)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_sHQMrDjyI&list=PL-b_U5v6TQk3x3sauaJ_gUGe2WIqb5KC9&index=1)**
- **[The Alphabet Soup of ESG: Introducing Key Frameworks](https://www.cooleygo.com/the-alphabet-soup-of-esg-introducing-key-frameworks/)** · Cooley GO
- **[What Is Esg? A Primer for Startups](https://www.cooleygo.com/what-is-esg-a-primer-for-startups/)** · Cooley GO

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Back to [all the resources](resources.md).
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# Customers and discovery

The largest group here, and the work most founders skip. Interview technique, ideal customer profiles, validating that the problem is real, and finding the first people who will pay for the answer.
Choosing who to serve, interviewing them properly, and knowing when you have found product-market fit rather than assuming it.

16 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Every link was reachable when this page was generated.
49 resources, each credited to whoever published it. Sub-headings are the topic each was filed under in its source collection.

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## Customer & market selection

- **[Coping With the Chasm](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/coping-chasm-geoffrey-moore/?trackingId=8LGoLUeuRby6vgGhLOHYOw%3D%3D)**
- **[How Market Segmentation Simplifies Growth Hack](https://medium.com/what-it-takes/how-market-segmentation-simplifies-growth-hack-dedd1c143710)**
- **[How to Cross the Chasm: Creating and Owning Your Own Market](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac75ht3FVyM)**
- **[How to Know When You Need to Fire Your Customer](https://www.battery.com/blog/how-to-know-when-you-need-to-fire-your-customer/)** · battery.com
- **[The Impact of Customer Selection on Fundability](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/impact-customer-selection-fundability-ran-matoki-5ta1f/)**
- **[The Importance of Starting With a Small Market](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C1H0_Uv1us)**
- **[Your Customer’s Profitability Is Your Startup’s Future Health](https://tomtunguz.com/ten-years-ago-today/)** · tomtunguz.com

## Customer discovery

- **[Doing Customer Discovery Is Like Searching for the Holy Grail. 2 Minutes to See Why](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hriiulBbWck)**
- **[How to Get Your First Ten Customers?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXLTG9n7Kw)**
- **[How to Learn From Customers When Everyone Is Lying to You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LwbFZkyRKk&t=90s)**
- **[How to Talk to Users](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT4Ig2uqjTc)**
- **[How to Talk to Users – Customer Discovery for Your Startup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD1NcMTyKs4)**
- **[The Lean Startup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEvKo90qBns)**
- **[Three Lessons From the Founding Story of Doordash](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xnrf0V6sEo)**

## Customers

- **[95 Ways to Find Your First Customers for Customer Development or Your First Sale](https://jasonevanish.com/2013/08/11/95-ways-to-find-your-first-customers-for-customer-development-or-your-first-sale/?ref=refind)** · Jason Evanish — Tactics for finding early customers and customer development conversations.
- **[Acquiring your first 100 customers](https://suhaild.medium.com/acquiring-your-first-100-customers-5499866d10fb)** — Approaches to winning the first hundred customers.
- **[Case Study: How 3 Startups Built Their Customer Discovery Practice](https://jeffgothelf.com/blog/how-3-startups-built-their-customer-discovery-practice/)** · Jeff Gothelf — Three worked examples of startups running continuous customer discovery.
- **[How Startups Should Do Customer Discovery](https://thinkgrowth.org/how-startups-should-do-customer-discovery-51b151724a01)** — Method for interviewing customers and validating the problem.
- **[How Startups Should Do Customer Discovery](https://thinkgrowth.org/how-startups-should-do-customer-discovery-51b151724a01)** · ThinkGrowth — Method for interviewing customers and validating the problem.
- **[How to Get From Big Idea to a Validated Business Case: An Overview of the Testing Process](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DVKKMte3M4)** — Video walkthrough of experiments that validate an idea's business case.
- **[How to Identify Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-identify-your-ideal-customer)** · Lenny's Newsletter — Newsletter method for defining and narrowing an ideal customer profile.
- **[How to Identify Your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-identify-your-ideal-customer)** · Lennys Newsletter — Newsletter method for defining and narrowing an ideal customer profile.
- **[How to Know if Your Idea’s the Right One — A Founder’s Guide for Successful Early-Stage Customer Discovery](https://review.firstround.com/how-to-know-if-your-ideas-the-right-one-a-founders-guide-for-successful-early-stage-customer-discovery/)** · First Round Review — Founder guide to early-stage customer conversations that test an idea.
- **[How to Talk to Users](https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Iq-how-to-talk-to-users)** · Y Combinator — Y Combinator talk on running user interviews about problems.
- **[Ideal customer profile battlecard](https://www.mykpono.com/ideal-customer-profile-icp-how-to-create-a-comprehensive-customer-profile/)** — One-page card capturing ideal customer profile criteria and segments.
- **[Ideal customer profile battlecard](https://www.mykpono.com/ideal-customer-profile-icp-how-to-create-a-comprehensive-customer-profile/)** · Myk Pono — One-page card capturing ideal customer profile criteria and segments.
- **[Never Ask What They Want — 3 Better Questions to Ask in User Interviews](https://medium.com/user-research/never-ask-what-they-want-3-better-questions-to-ask-in-user-interviews-aeddd2a2101e)** — Article proposing three question types for user research interviews.
- **[Steve Blank's Customer Development](https://steveblank.com/2010/04/29/teaching-customer-development-and-the-lean-startup-%E2%80%93-topological-homeomorphism/)** · Steve Blank — Blank's customer development method for testing assumptions with buyers.
- **[Talking With Humans (full PDF)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/TalkingtoHumans/Talking+to+Humans.pdf)** — Constable and Rimalovski book on customer interviews, full PDF.
- **[The Mini-Guide to Talking to Your Customers](https://medium.com/@isabelle.ilyia/the-mini-guide-to-talking-to-your-customers-02e582c7d4eb)** — Short guide to running customer conversations and interview questions.
- **[The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick [Actionable Summary]](https://durmonski.com/book-summaries/the-mom-test/)** · Ivaylo Durmonski — Summary of Fitzpatrick's method for unbiased customer interviews.
- **[Understand Your Customers](https://toolkit.techstars.com/understand-your-customers)** · Techstars — Techstars module on researching and understanding target customers.
- **[Your Job Is Not to Make Every Customer Happy](https://thinkgrowth.org/your-job-is-not-to-make-every-possible-customer-happy-f59a59595af)** — Argues for serving a defined customer segment rather than everyone.
- **[Your Job Is Not to Make Every Customer Happy](https://thinkgrowth.org/your-job-is-not-to-make-every-possible-customer-happy-f59a59595af)** · ThinkGrowth — Argues for serving a defined customer segment rather than everyone.

## Product-market fit

- **[(Founder Stories) Dropbox: Success and Growth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GDoEA2oD7k)**
- **[A Guide for Finding Product-Market Fit in B2B](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/finding-product-market-fit)** · Lenny’s Newsletter
- **[Bootstrapping and the Ups & Downs of Finding Product Market Fit](https://saasclub.io/podcast/melissa-kwan-ewebinar-338/)** · saasclub.io
- **[Find Product Market Fit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odwy7wu8voQ&t=39s)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit](https://rein.pk/finding-product-market-fit)** · rein.pk
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 1/6 – Getting Started](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-1-6-getting-started-cb8e2a92cbe6)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 2/6 – Magic](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-2-6-magic-cd1c2f6dc70a)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 3/6 – Habit](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-3-6-habit-55fd1ce47261)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 4/6 – Discovery](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-4-6-discovery-8f6ea67be02d)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 5/6 – Growth Loop](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-5-6-growth-loop-c36c5a87cbc2)**
- **[Finding Product Market Fit 6/6 – Getting Ready for Series A](https://johnwdanner.medium.com/finding-product-market-fit-6-6-getting-ready-for-series-a-a8d39680a2c4)**
- **[How to Validate Your B2B Startup Idea](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-validate-your-b2b-startup)** · Lenny’s Newsletter
- **[Judging Product Market Fit](https://rein.pk/judging-product-market-fit)** · rein.pk
- **[Mastering the Problem Space to Achieve Product-Market Fit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDUrQlmwox4)**
- **[Problem-Founder Fit](https://medium.com/@nedrenzi/problem-founder-fit-b04f95cdaa5a)**
- **[The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework](https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/pmf-framework/)** · Sequoia
- **[The Outsiders: Defying the Myth of Founder-Market Fit](https://bussgang.medium.com/the-outsiders-defying-the-myth-of-founder-market-fit-3efdfde2a812)**
- **[The Real Product Market Fit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBOLk9s9Ci4)**
- **[Zero to Product/Market Fit](https://andrewchen.com/zero-to-productmarket-fit-presentation/)** · andrewchen.com

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