🎱Key Questions:
- What's the purpose of this company? What impact do we want to have?
- What should I be focusing on as a founder?
- How do you make key decisions?
- How do I find a co-founder?
- When is it time to pivot or iterate?
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⌛ Suggested Time:
Total Hours: 80 hours
Full Time Founders: 1 to 2 weeks
Part Time Founders: 2 to 4 weeks
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💁🏼Why Do This Now?
You've done the groundwork. You've identified your customer, deeply understand their problem, have built a solution that they want to use, explored different business models, and developed a robust strategy to acquire and retain customers. Now it's time to lead. And a good leader must be strategic. What does it mean to be strategic? You need to have vision, to be able to build and maintain momentum, to know when to course correct, to establish and achieve priorities and to recruit talent. In this chapter we empower you to be the strategic leader you were born to be.
👯 Goals:
- Develop your founder and company vision
- Implement structure - in the form of goal setting, KPIs, and accountability mechanisms - to build and maintain momentum
- Learn when to pivot versus iterate and how to do so successfully
- Use frameworks to prioritize company and individual goals and implement strategies to ensure focus and maximum learning
- Go through an efficient process for identifying and recruiting high-quality co-founders that are the right fit for your company
Step 10: Strategy
Founder Vision
Momentum
Pivoting & Iterating
Prioritization
Finding a Co-Founder
Step 10: Wrap Up