I thought it would be helpful to have a sort of curriculum for startups.
I often find myself telling folks the same thing over and over again. It would be helpful to just tell them “go to step X”.
Also, it’s a great way for an aspiring startup to demonstrate they are truly serious.
Here is what I wrote a long time ago:
12 Steps to starting your software company, and 3 unit tests to evaluate progress
Good one.
For anyone interested, Fizzle.co (the Fizzle podcast folks) has a very detailed, step-by-step process for new businesses.
Covers everything from target audience to marketing to implementation.
From Fizzle.co
10 steps to starting a business
They postively skewer the SBA (rightly so) but ironically make some of the same mistakes later, putting “name, establish and launch your business” before “choose an audience, build a product”., and nver mention “validate your product”.
Haha. Yes, that’s the problem with giving blind advice- they should have spent some time defining their own audience!