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Equity for a founder's cash contribution
The extra ownership percentage a founder earns by putting cash into the company beyond their labor, priced off the agreed pre-seed valuation, plus the resulting post-contribution ownership split, so the founders can settle IOUs before financing.
Fatal pinch diagnosis
A pure function that classifies a startup against Paul Graham's fatal-pinch definition: default-dead AND slow growth AND not enough time, returning the overall verdict and which of the three conditions are true.
Foothold fit against the nonconsumption pattern
A structured foothold-fit assessment that records, for each of Christensen's four elements of the nonconsumption pattern, the buyer's claim, supporting evidence, and a pass/partial/fail mark, with an aggregate fit verdict computed by rule.
Founder equity contribution-factor ledger
A structured ledger that records, per founder, each equity-adjustment factor applied (initiator, idea, beachhead, CEO, full-time, reputation, cash), the points added, and a justification, ending in final share counts and ownership percentages, so the split is defensible line by line.
Founder equity split with a vesting schedule
A defensible cofounder equity split with a vesting schedule and a leaver buy-back, reconciling to 100%.
Founder personal runway and go-full-time verdict
A bootstrapping founder learns how many months of personal runway they have and whether it clears the book's full-time-go thresholds, so they can decide whether to quit their job now or stay part-time.
Founder share repurchase on departure
A precise vested-vs-repurchasable share split when a founder leaves before fully vesting, plus the cash the company pays under the repurchase agreement, so the cap table can be corrected.
Founder vesting acceleration payout on change of control
A precise breakdown of how many founder shares vest at a change-of-control event under the grant's acceleration terms, so the founder knows their stake before signing.
Gig-platform fee and net-earnings comparison
For every platform I compare, I see the fee it takes and the net earnings that remain, with the highest-net platform flagged as the winner.
Goal decomposed into an executable task plan
A goal broken into ordered, tool-assigned steps with a resolved, acyclic dependency graph, so an agent (or a team) can execute it without ambiguity.
In-house build-vs-buy tendency scorer
A founder weighing whether to sell an AI capability as a service gets a 0-6 in-house-tendency score and a build/buy verdict per the book's exact criteria, flagging capabilities customers will just build themselves.
Incident response runbook
A severity-tiered response playbook (roles, response targets, escalation, comms) so responders follow a plan instead of debating process mid-outage.