A founder's first 5 days
Five days, five short lessons, five small tasks. One email a day.
A short 5-day course for founders who have an idea or a brand-new startup. Each lesson draws on an article, a tool or a Startup Graveyard record from the site. You get a story, a few principles, one link and a small task for the day.
- Test your idea with customersA horse in Berlin that could do sums. Why do you behave just like him in customer interviews?
- Make your first version embarrassingly smallGutenberg printed small documents before he finished the big book. What's your first page?
- Agree on equity with your co-founder earlyWhat split three partners wasn't the profit. It was a 500-pound carpet.
- Write your cash down in monthsThe camp had been abandoned nine hours earlier. How many months will yours wait?
- Learn from the graveyardA shopping guide launched in 2007 and shut down in 2008. Its record holds three lessons for you.
No more than one email a day, sent between 9am and 8pm Turkey time. Every lesson has a link to leave the course.